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Daniela Mitterberger is a Professor at ETH Zurich, leading the Architecture and Human Augmentation Group. Her research focuses on digital fabrication, extended reality, and human-machine collaboration.
Mitterberger serves on the Board of Directors of the COMPAS Association, supporting its open-source frameworks for interdisciplinary collaboration in the AEC industry. She leads the development of COMPAS XR, the framework that integrates extended reality and robotics.
Prior to joining ETH Zurich, Mitterberger was an assistant professor at Princeton University and co-lead of the Immersive Design Lab at ETH Zurich. She received her doctoral degree in Architecture from ETH Zurich in 2023, with a focus on adaptive digital fabrication and human-machine collaboration.
Parallel to her academic career, Daniela Mitterberger also explores the boundaries between science and art with her multidisciplinary architecture office MAEID [Büro für Architektur und Transmediale Kunst], which she co-founded in 2015. MAEID’s work has been awarded numerous international prizes and exhibited in renowned galleries, institutions, and events, including the Milan Triennale 2025, Venice Biennale 2021, Princess of Asturias Awards 2021, Seoul Biennale 2020, Ars Electronica Linz, MAK Vienna, Melbourne Triennial, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and HdA Graz.
Links to Keynotes and podcasts:
Mitterberger serves on the Board of Directors of the COMPAS Association, supporting its open-source frameworks for interdisciplinary collaboration in the AEC industry. She leads the development of COMPAS XR, the framework that integrates extended reality and robotics.
Prior to joining ETH Zurich, Mitterberger was an assistant professor at Princeton University and co-lead of the Immersive Design Lab at ETH Zurich. She received her doctoral degree in Architecture from ETH Zurich in 2023, with a focus on adaptive digital fabrication and human-machine collaboration.
Parallel to her academic career, Daniela Mitterberger also explores the boundaries between science and art with her multidisciplinary architecture office MAEID [Büro für Architektur und Transmediale Kunst], which she co-founded in 2015. MAEID’s work has been awarded numerous international prizes and exhibited in renowned galleries, institutions, and events, including the Milan Triennale 2025, Venice Biennale 2021, Princess of Asturias Awards 2021, Seoul Biennale 2020, Ars Electronica Linz, MAK Vienna, Melbourne Triennial, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and HdA Graz.
Links to Keynotes and podcasts:
- ETH Zurich: Future of Construction (2026)
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ABB Robotics: The Robot Podcast - Sustainable Construction (2021)
- TU Vienna: Symposium on Geometry and Computational Design (2023)
- EACVA Symposium in Berlin: Rethinking Tools in Digital Fabrication: A Dialogue Between the Human Hand and the Robotic Grip (2025)
- ETH Zurich: Strange Comfort: Intuitive Machines and Robotic Gardeners (2024)
- Princeton: Rethinking digital construction: a collaborative future of humans, machines, and craft (2025)
- University of Florida -Playing Models: Workmanship of Synthesis (2022)
- BE-AM Symposium- Formnext: Soil 3D printing (2022)
- University of Innsbruck: Independent Architecture Research Colloquia (2020)
- Melbourne School of Design: 90 tons, 656 hours, 51 elements, and 20 people (2022)
- Venice Biennial: Artistic Research and Architecture (2021)
- Impakt Festival: School of Non-Humans (2019)
Spring 2026:
- Elective Course: Alpine ARchitecture: From Material Practice to Digital Instruction in Augmented Reality - 052-0621-00L
Fall 2025:
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Independent Reading Course: HCI methods for Architecture - ARC 762
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Undergraduate Seminar (Lecture + Lab):
Creative Computation & Robotics - ARC 373: This course introduces the fundamentals of robotics through the lens of creativity, exemplified through robotic painting and artistic machine creation.
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Undergraduate Seminar (Lecture + Lab):
Immersive Design - ARC 379: This course introduces the fundamentals of immersive design through the interplay of audiovisual elements, with an emphasis on real-time interaction and spatial simulation.
Spring 2025:
- Independent Reading Course: Extended Augmentation in Architecture - ARC 762
Spring 2024:
- Graduate Seminar: Embodied Computation - ARC 596
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