Title 1:  Introduction of facility management and the frontiers of evidence-based design
Speaker 1:  Prof Alexi Marmot

Title 2:  Space Syntax technology and evidence-based design
Speaker 2: Dr Kayvan Karimi

Date:  Nov. 4，2014
Time: 15:00 pm
Venue:  The first floor,  multimedia classroom of Number 27 building
Organizer:  School of Architecture, SCUT

Brief Introduction of the Speakers:
Prof Alexi Marmot：
Prof, Facility & Environment Management, UCL Inst. for Env. Design & Eng.
Vice-Dean Teaching, The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment
Director, AMA Alexi Marmot Associates, London
Prof Alexi Marmot specialises in ‘evidence-based design and management’, development of methods, data gathering, analysis and interpretation of results for application to real-world problems that face all organisations in using space efficiently and effectively to fulfil their mission. Results aim to assist strategic decisions by clients and change management for building users.

Dr Kayvan Karimi：
Dr. Kayvan Karimi is a Senior Lecturer within the Space Research Group at the Bartlett, UCL, and the Course Director of MRes in Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities (MRes SD:AC). He is also the Director of Space Syntax Limited, a UCL spin-off company that utilizes Bartlett’s research in professional consultancy. Kayvan is an architectural and urban designer with more than twenty years of academic and professional experience.
Main research areas：
1. Evidence-informed, analytical, urban and architectural design
2. Organic cities and naturally-evolved urban systems
3. Informal settlements and slum regeneration
4. Strategic planning and large-scale developments