PUBLIC PARTS

David Dória, Keshav Ramaswami & Kiko Zhang

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Discrete Architecture
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Public Parts – Brazil / United Kingdom

Public Parts is a platform for communal living. Seeking to challenge the neoliberal model that currently dominates the gig economy through an approach to the re-socialization of housing, the platform employs automation and machine intelligence to produce reconfigurable buildings.

Co-authors: Keshav Ramaswami and Xuan “Kiko” Zhang

Tutors: Mollie Claypool, Gilles Retsin, Manuel Jimenez Garcia, Kevin Saey, Sonia Magdziarz, Alessandro Bava

BIO

David Dória is an architect and urban designer whose work explores the convergence of digital technologies and architecture, with a particular focus on their theoretical and political implications for the discipline. His research spans automation, artificial intelligence applications in architecture, computational design, and digital fabrication. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Sergipe and an MArch in Architectural Design from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.