Dr Ricardo Assis Rosa

Dr Ricardo Assis Rosa’s work operates at the intersection of design pedagogy, collaborative design environments and the evolving relationship between digital intelligence and material practice in architectural education. His teaching and research explore how emerging AI-supported workflows are reshaping studio culture, authorship, and the role of the architect as both designer and orchestrator of complex interdisciplinary processes.

His pedagogical approach integrates research-by-design, material experimentation and digitally mediated collaboration to develop new models of learning that bridge conceptual thinking, technological fluency and embodied spatial understanding. He is particularly interested in how future teaching environments can support collective intelligence, distributed creativity and more adaptive forms of architectural practice.

Through curriculum development, validation activity and cross-institution collaboration, his work focuses on aligning studio education with contemporary practice conditions, where design thinking, digital tools, fabrication processes and construction realities operate as a continuous workflow rather than discrete domains. His current interests examine how AI can augment reflective practice, enhance design judgement and support more inclusive, exploratory and resilient modes of architectural learning.