Omar Khan

Omar Khan is an architect and educator whose work spans the disciplines of architecture, installation/performance art and digital media. His research investigates the role of pervasive media and computing for designing responsive architecture and environments. This has followed different strategies including augmenting environments with sensing and actuating technologies, rethinking material substrates and assemblies and theorizing on ways to develop mutualist relationships between people and their built environment. He is a co-editor of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series and a director at the Center for Architecture and Situated Technologies at the University at Buffalo.