Brian Slocum is a PhD pre-candidate in Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the Daniels Faculty. Prior to beginning his doctoral studies, Slocum was a practicing architect and Adjunct Professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. His research focuses on computational technologies in architecture—specifically robotics—examined through the lens of queer theory. Understanding queerness as another type of technology, Slocum looks for ways it might complement more traditional architectural robotics building practices, toward the literal and rhetorical dismantling of normative structures.

Advisor

Maria Yablonina

• 2024 (forthcoming). “Robot Excess: Machine Histories and a Hermeneutics of Movement,” In Construction Robotics edited by Madeline Gannon. Expected publication date, September 2024: Springer.
• 2021. “The Presence of Outliers: Amplifying Counternarratives through Design Computation,” ACADIA Society Award for Leadership keynote at ACADIA 2021 Conference Realignments: Toward Critical Computation. Online. November 6.
• 2020. Slocum, B., Ago V., Doyle, S., Marcus, A., Yablonina, M., del Campo, M. (eds.). ACADIA 2020: Distributed Proximities, Volume I: Technical Papers [Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Association of Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)], Online. 24–30 October: CUMINCAD.

Slocum is a licensed architect in the State of New York. He has served on the board of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and co-chaired its 2018 (site co-chair) and 2020 (technical co-chair) conferences.

• Email: brian.slocum@mail.utoronto.ca
• Website: tresrobotos.com