Lidia Ratoi
Hong Kong University
Lidia Ratoi is an Assistant Professor within Hong Kong University – Department of Architecture. She holds a degree in robotic fabrication from IAAC Barcelona, the Open Thesis Fabrication program, and has previously completed her master’s studies in architecture at UAUIM, Bucharest. In HKU, she is currently coordinating the year 2 undergraduate degree, and works on projects investigating material ecology and sustainability in the realm of robotic fabrication. She has previously taught at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.
She is currently a DesignTrust Grantee, for her research project “Impossible Bricks”, which mediates the use of bioplastic materials in pair with robotic fabrication, aiming to deviate the interaction with nature and technology from a human-centric, individualistic one to an empathetic, conscious one. She is co-designing the “Traditional House of the Future”, a house prototype in rural China which combines robotic 3D printing with vernacular woodworking techniques.
