Architect of Things

🖥️️️ Architect of Things (AoT) is a network of "architects" searching and providing solutions to new worlds that intersect with science, software, and technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging experiences, knowledge, and stories within the physical reality and the virtual reality, over the Internet. The way architects operate is ever evolving due to the convergence of multiple technologies, social media, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems (environmental, biological, socio-political). 📐 The established architecture that is historically performed on physical reality, now converges with intersectionalities that contribute to enabling the Architect of Things. The AoT includes those who design traditional spaces, buildings, or environments, smart homes, smart cities, virtual spaces, and support one or more common ecosystems in the combined virtual and physical space (metaverse), which can be controlled via devices associated with that ecosystem (e.g. your smartphones, your Artificial-Intelligence-powered virtual assistant devices, Virtual Reality headsets, Augmented Reality fixtures, mixed-reality smart glasses, etc). Just one more thing, we know you have many clubs to choose from and we thank you for choosing to follow the Architect of Things. Join AoT on 👋 Clubhouse and 💎 Greenroom today! You’ll belong, in other words it’s your safe equitable space! 📱 Text AoT toll-free: +1 (833) 937-8423

When compared to other demographics (particularly White Americans), there aren't immensely large numbers of designers in architecture who are Asian American. The 2020 National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) released aggregated data that there are only 6% Asian American architects in the USA. There has yet to be research done on the disaggregated data about each of the 20 countries which represent the diverse U.S. Asian population having roots from East and Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, and their representation in architecture. Perhaps if their presence was better reflected in the design media including architecture clubs and institutes, we'd see more people getting involved — especially younger generations who may have an interest in architecture or interior architecture but lack a connection to the field currently because their culture isn't appropriately represented. Admittedly, I'm an AAPI architect myself, who lives and breathes architecture. I spend most of my days immersed in the latest innovation and technologies in architecture (and often lamenting the lack there-of). Despite the creative power of equitable practices, architecture — like many other industries — is fraught with racism. Some of these problems manifest as explicit incidents, while others are more implicit or subtle. In either case, such issues can present a myriad of challenges for AAPI architects and designers, making it difficult for diverse voices to contribute their fullest potential. Sometimes I've been asked by well-meaning colleagues if I knew a certain Filipino family within my home state or in other states in the USA, implying that since we are both Filipinos, we would know each other. Conversations like this have happened more than once, and they always hit me like a ton of bricks. Sure, at first glance Asians look alike, and yes it is common to mistake us for other Asians. But in the digital era, where we're all randomly connected with millions of people across the globe; social media platforms have now created global communities where everyone is connected to everyone else. And heritage identities tend to be diverse and fluid so we need to be cognizant of these.