Emphasizes the importance of managing trade-offs for product robustness in mechanical design, using Multi-objective Monotonicity Analysis for quantitative analysis and systematic redesign efforts.
Explores Adolf Loos' critique of ornamentation and bourgeois culture, contrasting with Ettore Sottsass' innovative approach to design and his influence on post-Fordism.
Explores materials modelling, focusing on predicting and designing material properties through computation, including defect analysis, coherence time calculations, and quantum simulations.
