Afshin Ashari

Afshin Ashari is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development (SEDRD) at the University of Guelph. Prior to joining SEDRD, he was engaged in a range of architectural and landscape architectural projects in both public and private sectors and most recently working with BrookMcIlroy Inc. in Toronto; an interdisciplinary firm of architects, landscape architects, planners, and urban designers.

He holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Computer Engineering from the Azad University of Tehran. Taking advantage of his interdisciplinary background, Afshin research interests revolve around merging computational design approaches and mixed-reality immersive environments, with a particular focus on exploring the unity of art and technology in public spaces.

Afshin seeks to push the boundaries of traditional design processes by integrating computational tools and techniques to explore the application of algorithms, parametric modelling, data-driven approaches, and interactive immersive environments. His goal is to streamline novel design workflows and generate innovative design alternatives, with the hope of avoiding analogue habits of design and landscape homogenization.