Loren Adams

Loren Adams is disciplinarily promiscuous spatial technologist and researcher-practitioner with the Melbourne Centre for Cities at the University of Melbourne. Trained in architecture and public policy, her current research explores the ‘socio-spatial exploit’ as an instrument for thinking-with planetary urban power structures. Previously, Loren led the Computational Design Specialist team at Grimshaw Architects in Melbourne and was the inaugural Coordinator of the Melbourne School of Design Robotics Lab. She began her career working as a fine art fabricator in Los Angeles.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.