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2024 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver two lectures at the Nanjing Forestry University.

2024 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a public lecture series at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.

2024 04-05 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a talk and attend research collaboration meetings at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles, USA.

2024 01 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a talk entitled “Towards Embedded Architectures – Urban Landform, Soil Bodies, and Geomorphic Tectonics” at Northeastern University – Centre for Design in Boston, USA.

2024 05-07 June: Prof. Michael U. Hensel, Prof. Susann Ahn and Prof. Thomas Hauck will host the Digital Landscape Architecture Conference – New Trajectories in Computational Urban Landscapes and Ecology Conference at TU Wien.

2024 13 May: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a Laudatio on the occasion of Prof. Dr. Birger R. Sevaldson’s retirement from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

2024 08-11 April: Prof. Michael U. Hensel will hosts the annual ECOLOPES Workshop at the research department for Digital Architecture and Planning at TU Wien.

2024 29 February: Michael U. Hensel will participate in the DLA Education – Critical Reflection on Current Theoretical and Practical Foundations Workshop at ETH Zurich.

2023 25 November: The 9th edition of the international Architecture and Environment Symposium takes place at Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prof. Dr. Cheng Yuning and Prof. Dr. Michael U.Hensel. will chair the symposium.

2023 25 November: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Albin Ahmeti will deliver a keynote entitled Bringing Ecological Data and Knowledge into Architectural Design through Knowledge Graphs: The Case of the Ecolopes Research Project at the 9th edition of the international Architecture and Environment Symposium at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2023 25 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a keynote entitled Urban Landform for Geo-/Climate-/&Biodiversity: Reintegrating Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design to fulfil the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals at the 9th edition of the international Architecture and Environment Symposium at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2023 21 & 22 October: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel will deliver a keynote at the DLA 2021 – 6th International Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2023 21 & 22 October: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a keynote entitled Towards Embedded Architectures: Key Strategies for Architecture and Environment Integration and addressing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals at the DLA 2021 – 6th International Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2023 12 & 13 October: Prof. Michael U. Hensel will host the Urban Green Systems 4.0 Workshop at the Department for Digital Architecture and Planning at TU Wien.

2023 10 July: Launch of Volume 1 Introduction to Designing Environments – Paradigms and Approaches of the Designing Environments Book series by Springer Nature. The Designing Environments book series is edited by Prof. Michael U. Hensel (TU Wien), Prof. Claudia R. Binder (EPFL ENAC), and Assoc. Prof. Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel (SEU).

2023 26 May: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a talk entitled Eingebettete Architekturen – Integration von Architektur und Umwelt @ Our Water | Water Days Izmir Conference 2023 organised by the Goethe Institute in Izmir.

2023 23 & 24 February: Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel will host the Arbeitskreis Architekturinformatik at the Department for Digital Architecture and Planning at TU Wien.

2023 02 & 03 February: Assoc. Prof. Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Asst. Prof. Milica Vujovic will chair the 8th International Architecture and Environment Symposium Decision Support in Urban Social-Ecological Systems at TU Wien. Symposium Program

2022 02 December: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a lecture entitled Data-generation for Data-integrated Design Processes at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

2022 18 November: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures Synthesis at Southeast University, Nanjing, China

2022 18 October: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a lecture entitled Changing Practices at UNLV School of Architecture, USA, and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.

2022 02 June: Michael U. Hensel will deliver a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Wädenswil, Switzerland.

2022 19 May: Michael U. Hensel and Johan Bettum chaired the Jeffrey Kipnis & The Quest for the New Symposium at TU Wien. Speakers include: Jeffrey Kipnis, Don Bates, Cynthia Davidson, Peter Eisenman, Peter Gannon, Steven Holl, Sylvia Lavin, Rob Ivesey, Greg Lynn, Thom Mayne, Mark Morris, Eric Owen Moss, Peter Noever, Wolf Prix, Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto, Kivi Sotamaa, Peter Trummer, and Alejandro Zaera Polo.

2022 17 February: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures – Advancing Architecture and Environment Integration at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2022 07-19 February: Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel, Matteo Lomaglio and Filippo Oppimitti conducted a master class entitled Embedded Architectures – The New Siedlung in the MInDS 21|22 program at Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2021 16 October: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Ecological Prototypes for Innovation in Green Construction @ DLA 2021 – 5th International Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2021 16 October: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Embedded Architectures: Synthesising Architecture and Landscape at the DLA 2021 – 5th International Digital Landscape Architecture Conference at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2021 15 October: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Performances in Time: The Distinct Performance of Embedded Architectures at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2021 13 October: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Introduction to Embedded Architectures at Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2021 09 October: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Re-grounding Architecture: making sense of ground, terrain and soil in architecture and environment integration at the Practical Aesthetics: Communicative Constructions Conference, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2021 10 September: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Perpetual Adaptations in the Context of Embedded Architectures at the Perpetually Adaptive Environments – Adaptive Environments Symposium 2021, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

2021 12 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture at TU Delft, The Netherlands. The lecture will be online.

2021 22 March: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Embedded Architectures at Lecture for Futures 2021, Die Angewandte in Vienna.

2020 16 October: AE 5 Symposium: Arbor-Tech – The Tree between Today’s new Technologies and Cultural Techniques of the Past. The symposium took place in the context of the Weihenstephaner Forum in collaboration between Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig, Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technical University Munich, and Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel, Digital Architecture and Planning at TU Wien.

2020 16&18 Sept: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote at the eCAADe Conference 2020 Anthropologic – Architecture and Fabrication in the Cognitive Age, TU Berlin, Germany.

2020 31 Aug -11 Sep: AE Lab 2 – Architecture and Environment Lab 2020 will take place in Florence and Lamole, Italy. AE Lab 2 was organized by Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel, Grazia Tucci and Erica Parisi.

2020 13-19 July: The Living Environments and Landscape Online International Lecture Series wad chaired by Prof. Dr. Michael U. Hensel and Prof. Dr. Yuning Cheng, director of Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Architecture, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2020 15 July: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled: Ecological Prototypes for Designing Future Environments at the Living Environments and Landscape International Lecture Series, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2020 13 July: Michael U Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures: Thoughts and Works en Route to Architecture and Environment Integration at the Living Environments and Landscape International Lecture Series, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

2020 03 Feb: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures – Thoughts and Works en Route to Architecture and Environment Integration at Staedelschule, Frankfurt, Germany.

2020 01 Jan: The LamoLab Research Center is launched.

2019 18&19 Dec: Michael U. Hensel and Yasha Grobman chaired the 4th Architecture & Environment Symposium – Data-driven Modelling and Design for Architecture and Environment Integration at TU Wien, Austria.

2019 29 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Embedded Architectures – En Route to data-driven Modelling for Architecture and Environment Integration @ GCD Symposium 2019 organised by the Center for Geometry and Computational Design, TU Wien, Austria.

2019 20-22 Nov: Michael U. Hensel participated in the external expert board evaluating South East University School of Architecture – a national government named model school – in Nanjing, China.

2019 25 Nov: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Ecological Prototypes – Data-driven Design Research on Ecological Prototypes for Architecture at EPFL ENAC in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2019 25 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures and Data-driven Design at EPFL ENAC in Lausanne, Switzerland.

2019 7 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures and Data-driven Design at Trends of Transformation Forum 2019: Innovation with no Boundaries, Guangzhou, China.

2019 25 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Embedded Architectures: Data-driven Design en Route to Architecture and Environment Integration at the Digital Practice DR_SoM & ARENA Conference, Technical University Graz, Austria.

2019 25 Nov: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a conference paper entitled Data-driven Design Research on Ecological Prototypes for Green Architecture at the Digital Practice DR_SoM & ARENA Conference, Technical University Graz, Austria.

2019 16&17 Sept: Katia Perini and Michael U. Hensel chaired the 3rd edition of the international Architecture & Environment Symposium entitled Envelope Ecologies at the University of Genoa, Italy.

2019 16 Sept: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a talk entitled Data-driven Design Research on Ecological Prototypes for Green Architecture @ AE3 – 3rd Architecture & Environment Symposium entitled Envelope Ecologies, University of Genoa, Italy.

2019 9-14 Sep: Michael U. Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel organized the first Architecture and Environment Lab (AE Lab) 2019 – in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Grazia Tucci of University of Florence and Daniele Santucci and Ata Chockhachian of Technical University Munich. The AE Lab took place in Florence and Lamole, Italy.

2019 29 Aug: Launch of a special issue of Form Academic Journal entitled Linking systems-thinking and Design-thinking in Architecture and Urban Design guest-edited by Michael U. Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and Birger Sevaldson.

2019 26 Aug: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Performance in Architecture @ humARCH 2019, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

2019 5-10 Aug: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture and Urban Design and run the Embedded Architectures 010 Lab @ Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019 26 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Facts of Matter: The Rise of integrative (Design-) Practices en Route to Post-polarization @ Matter at Hand Symposium, Azrieli Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2019 17 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a conference paper entitled The Rights to Ground – A Case for the Need of Design Principles @ Exp’19 Conference, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

2019 15 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled The Changing Shape of Architecture – Integrating Research and Design in Practice @ Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

2019 13 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures – En Route to Advanced Architecture and Environment Interaction @ University Of Malta.

2019 7 May: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Not seeing the Forest for the Trees – Can Density offset the Perception of Density? @ Perceived Urban Densities Workshop @ ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

2019 01 May: Booklaunch of The Changing Shape of Architecture edited by Michael U. Hensel and Fredrik Nilsson.

2019 29 Apr: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures & En Route to Advanced Architecture and Environment Interactions @ Politecnico di Milano, Italy.

2019 29 Mar: Michael U. Hensel chaired the 2nd Architecture & Environment Symposium – New Environments @ Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

2019 18 Mar: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures & Information-based Design @ Visual Computing Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.

2019 25 Feb: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Embedded Architectures – Climate Mitigation through alternative Means @ Approaches for Urban Climate Mitigation for activating Public Space Symposium, La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy.

2018 Michael U. Hensel joins the Arbeitskreis Architekturinformatik.

2018 5 Dec: Thomas Auer and Michael U. Hensel chaired the 1st Architecture & Environment Symposium 10 Years of ClimaDesign: Recent and New Approaches to the Interaction between Humans and the Built Environment @ Technical University Munich, Germany.

2018 5 Dec: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures @ 1st Architecture & Environment Symposium 10 Years of ClimaDesign: Recent and New Approaches to the Interaction between Humans and the Built Environment, Technical University Munich, Germany.

2018 20 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures & Information-based Design @ EPFL ENAC, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2018 14 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures – Rethinking Architecture and Environment Relations @ Institute for Advanced Study @ Technical University Munich, Germany.

2018 9 Nov: Michael U. Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Embedded Architectures: Challenging the Architecture – Nature Divide @ Meetings on Architecture Series, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Architectural Biennale 2018, Italy.

2018 27 Sep: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Researching Research Cultures in Architecture @ RCA 2018 – Research Culture in Architecture – International Conference on Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, FATUK Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Kaiserslautern, Germany.

2018 11 Sep: Michael U. Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Embedded Architectures & Information-based Design @ the Angewandte in Vienna, Austria.

2018 Michael U. Hensel starts as Professor for Digital Architecture and Planning @ TU Wien .

2018 Michael U. Hensel commences AWS Visiting Professorship at Technical University Munich Department of Architecture financed by STO Stiftung and honorary fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study .

2018 Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel receives TUM post-doctoral fellowship 2018 from the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University Munich.

2018 OCEAN A|E is launched on 1st January 2018.

2017 17 Nov: Michael U. Hensel convened the 2nd Roundtable on The Changing Shape of Practice @ DOGA Design and Architecture Norway. Participants include: Helen & Hard, Nordic – Office of Architecture, OCEAN, Snøhetta & Designit Oslo, EGGS Design, Halogen.

2017 03 Nov: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel defended her PhD at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Thesis: Convergence – Materials Adaptation and Informatics in Architecture.

2017 27 Oct: Michael U. Hensel convened the 1st Roundtable on The Changing Shape of Practice @ DOGA Design and Architecture Norway. Participants include: Helen & Hard, Nordic – Office of Architecture, OCEAN, Snøhetta & Designit Oslo, EGGS Design, Halogen.

2017 19 Oct: Michael U. Hensel delivered a keynote entitled The Rights to Ground @ RSD6 Conference – Relating Systems-thinking and Design, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

2017 06 Oct: Michael U. Hensel delivered a talk entitled Anticipation, Enquiry, Correlation & Adaptation – Transdisciplinary Research by Design en Route to Environmental Information Modelling @ 2017 DLB Symposium, Georgia Tech, United States.

2017 11 & 12 Sept: Walter Unterrainer und Michael U. Hensel chaired the Changing Shape of Practice Conference @ Aarhus School of Architecture. The conference is funded by the Dreyer Fond and is part of Aarhus Cultural Capital 2017.

2017 15 June: Michael Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture and Information-based Design , TU Delft, The Netherlands.

2017 13 June: Michael Hensel organised 2nd Kieran Timberlake – Snøhetta – RCAT Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics Workshop, Oslo, Norway.

2017 15 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture @ Tectonics Symposium, Utzon Center, Denmark.

2017 10 Feb: Michael Hensel participated at the round-table @ Architecture + Technology: Pedagogy in an Age of Disruption Symposium, GSAPP Columbia University, New York City, United States.

2017 09 Feb: 1st Kieran Timberlake – Snøhetta – RCAT Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics Workshop at Kieran Timberlake, Philadelphia, United States.

2016 11 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Embedded Architectures – Developments en route to Performance-oriented Architecture @ GSM3 – Game, Set and Match Symposium, TU Delft, The Netherlands.

2016 05 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled What does Architecture do? @ Les Architectes (Re)cherchentInternational Phyllis Lambert Seminar, University of Montreal, Canada.

2016 07 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture @ Aalborg University, Denmark.

2016 29&30 Sept: Michael Hensel chaired the 2nd Changing Shape of Practice Symposium @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. Participating practices include: Kieran Timberlake, OCEAN, SHoP Architects, Snøhetta, White Architects and Void.

2016 29 Sept: Michael Hensel chaired the Changing Shape of Practice Seminar @ DOGA Design and Architecture Norway. Participating practices include: Helen & Hard, Kieran Timberlake, SHoP Architects, Snøhetta, White Architects and Void.

2016 29 Sept: OCEAN exhibits work in the Changing Shape of Practice Exhibition @ Galleri AHO, Oslo, Norway.

2016 13-15 July: Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel presented two papers @ ISDRS International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.

2016 29 Juni: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – Concepts, Methods, Works @Tonji University, Shanghai, China.

2016 27 Juni: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Architectural History from a Performance Perspective @ 5th CNRCAU Forum in Changjing, China.

2016 26 Juni: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – Concepts, Methods, Works @ NanjingUniversity, Nanjing, China.

2016 23 Juni: Michael Hensel delivered a plenary talk entitled Bio-integrated Design – An alternative Approach to Architecture and Biology @ ICBE 5th International Conference on Bionic Engineering, Ningbo University, China.

2016 16 June: Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered public lectures at the first Design and Nature Summit @ Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center (DAKAM), Istanbul, Turkey.

2016 18 May: Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel conducted a master-class on Designing multi-performantive Screenwalls @ Izmir University of Economy, Izmir, Turkey.

2016 17 May: Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered talks @ Trans-Arch-Edu 3 Symposium, Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.

2016 21 April: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled The Changing Shape of Practice @ Izmir University of Economics, Izmir, Turkey.

2016 08 Mar: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel chaired the YEM Norwegian & Turkish Architects Seminar @ YEM Building Information Center in Istanbul, Turkey.

2015 08 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled From Utopia to Dystopia (and back?): Arguments for an Architectural Anti_Pessimist Perspective @ Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

2015 29 Sept: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Borderline Cases: Approaching ultra-complex Design Problems and Urban Hyper-diversity @ Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

2014 20 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Schools of Thought – Local Specificity and Questions of Identity @ CONARCH II – International Congress of Architecture, Selcuk University, Suleyman Demirel Culture Centre, Konya, Turkey.

2014 04 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Architectural History from a Performance Perspective – Repositories of Embedded Knowledge @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2014 07 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Ecologies, Architectures, Nation States and other Borderline Cases – A Plea for a massive Paradigm Change @ RSD3 Relating Systems-think and Design Symposium, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2014 02 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Grounds and Envelopes IV – Integrating Tectonic and Spatial Strategies @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway

2014 18 Sept: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Grounds and Envelopes III – Envelopes @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2014 02 Sept: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Grounds and Envelopes II – Grounds @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2014 19 Aug: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Grounds and Envelopes I – Spatial Strategies @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2014 10 June: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Perspectives, Criticality and Projectice Capacity in Architecture @ Act and Reflect II Symposium, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2014 21 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Intersecting Knowledge-fields and the Role of Research by Design en Route to Intensely Local Architectures  @ Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2014 22 Jan: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Wood in Architecture – Sustainable or not? Critical Reflections on Material Behavior, Prevailing Prejudices and Alternative Approaches @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2013 27 Dec: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – Rethinking Architecture and the Built Environment @ Yaşar University Faculty of Architecture, Izmir, Turkey.

2013 14 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – Rethinking Architecture and the Built Environment @ Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia.

2013 09 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Architectural History from a Performance Perspective @ Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey.

2013 01 Feb: Michael Hensel and Jeffrey P. Turko delivered a talk entitled Grounds and Envelopes from an Ecological Perspective @ Designing for Biodiversity – The Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design 2013, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, United States.

2013 01 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled Why Architecture needs to respond to Urban Ecology (and how this might commence) @ Designing for Biodiversity – The Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design 2013, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, United States.

2012 11 Dec: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Crunching-time: Confronting the Crisis of Architecture @ Sliver Lecture Series at the Academy of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

2012 07 Dec: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Integrativer Architekturentwurf – Ökologie, Nachhaltigkeit und Kulturelles Erbe @ Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria.

2012 05 Oct: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a talk entitled A Systems Model for Multi-functional Performance Integration @ RSD Relating Systems Thinking and Design Thinking – International Seminar, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2012 04 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled Knowing the Unknown: The Predicament of Core Knowledge and the Boundary Problem in Architecture @ RSD Relating Systems Thinking and Design Thinking – International Seminar, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2012 22 June: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Research by Design + the Renovation of Practice @ Research by Design – Architectural Design as Scientific Endeavor Symposium, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

2012 02 May: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Architecture and Ecology – Towards a non-anthropocentric Architecture @ e[ad] School of Architecture and Design, Valparaiso, Chile.

2012 15 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – Towards Non-discrete and Non-anthropocentric Architectures @ Georgia Tech School of Architecture, Atlanta, United States.

2012 04 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled Towards Non-anthropocentric Architectures @ Sustaining Sustainability Symposium – The Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design 2013, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, United States.

2012 03 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Sustaining Sustainability: The Need for Alternative Approaches to Architectural Design and Sustainability @ Sustaining Sustainability Symposium – The Hans and Roger Strauch Symposium on Sustainable Design 2013, Cornell University, Ithaca NY, United States.

2011 27&28 Oct: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a talk entitled Nested Catenaries @ Sverre Fehn 2011 Symposium, Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2011 27&28 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled Integrated Research at the Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics @ Sverre Fehn 2011 Symposium, Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2011 05 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture – An alternative Approach to Architectural Design and Sustainability @ Chalmers Architecture, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2011 30 May: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Architecture @ Die Angewandte – University for Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.

2011 29 Apr: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a talk entitled Multiple Performance Integration based on Wood and Clay Brick based Systems @ Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics Inauguration Symposium, Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 03 Nov: Michael Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Material Evidence from a Performance-oriented Design Perspective @ Material Evidence Seminar,  CITA Center for Information Technology and Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2010 08 Oct: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a talk entitled Complex Brick Systems @ Eladio Dieste – Advancing Architecture through Material Systems Innovation Symposium, Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 08 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a talk entitled Performance-oriented Design from a Material System Perspective – Innovating with Material Systems @ Eladio Dieste – Advancing Architecture through Material Systems Innovation Symposium, Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 18 Aug: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Auxiliary Architectures – The Need for Re-equipping the Built Environment @ Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 26 Apr: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Design from a Material Perspective @ Digital Material Seminar, ROM Kunst + Arkitektur, Oslo, Norway.

2010 22 Apr: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Performance-oriented Design – Towards an inclusive Approach to Architecture and the Built Environment @ From Gesamtkunstwerk to Complexity – Architecture on all Scales Nordic Association of Architectural Research – Seminar 2010, Tampere University of Technology – School of Architecture, Tampere, Finland.

2010 14 Apr: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Performance-oriented Design – Towards an inclusive Approach to Architecture and the Built Environment @ EKO Design 2010 Conference, YEM Yapi-Endustri Merkezi – The Building Information Center, Istanbul, Turkey.

2010 08 Apr: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Design – A systems-based Perspective: Interrelating Subject, Environment, Spatial and Material-organisation across (Time-)scales @ Oslo School for Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 31 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Performance-oriented Design from a Material Perspective – Example: Wood @ Digital Crafting Network Seminar 2, CITA Center for Information Technology and Architecture, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2010 26 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered an inaugural lecture entitled Performance-oriented Design – Towards an inclusive Approach to Architecture and the Built Environment @ Leopold-Franzens-Universität – Fakultät Architektur, Innsbruck, Austria.

2010 16 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Parametric Urbanism: Opportunity or Nonsense? A Potential Paradigm for complex multi-scalar Design Problems @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 02 Mar: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Reflections on a Biological Paradigm for Architecture @ COAC – Col.legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

2010 09 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Design: Some Thoughts on the Interaction between Artefacts, Organisms and Environment @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 09 Feb: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Rethinking Wood Characteristics and Behaviour in Architectural Design @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 01 Feb: Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Combining Computational Associative and Growth Modelling Methods @ Architecture and Computation Think-tank 01, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 01 Feb: Michael Hensel delivered a lecture entitled Conceptual Challenges in Complex Form-generation and Performance-analysis @ Architecture and Computation Think-tank 01, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2010 26 Jan: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Performance-oriented Design – A Paradigm for Architectural Design and Sustainability of the Built Environment
@ Utzon Center, Aalborg, Denmark.

2010 22 Jan: Michael Hensel delivered a public lecture entitled Operating between Context-specificity and Lack of Information – Instrumentalising the Unknown in the Design and Construction Process @ Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

2009 30 Oct: Michael Hensel delivered a keynote entitled Performance-oriented Architecture @ GENERATE International Seminar on Algorithmic Architecture @ University of Oulo, Finland.