A UK not-for-profit association
for research and design
At the intersection of technology, materials, manufacturing, and design.
Reality Intelligence Association is a UK-registered not-for-profit learned society working at the intersection of emerging computing technologies, architectural materials, and design research. Based between Oxford and London, RIA connects researchers and practitioners across design, engineering, architecture, and the humanities.
A living archive tracing how thought becomes visible through the body, and how the body acquires meaning through thought.
The exhibiting practitioners and works are now confirmed, spanning printmaking and drawing, textiles, wearable devices, architectural and spatial research, publication and graphic design, moving image and generative sound, and AR, VR and XR installation.
How AI is revolutionising the workflow in everyday architectural practice. From the Living Architecture Lab to a leading international practice, a designer maps the four stages of an AI toolkit onto the RIBA stages of work — and argues that the profession becomes more human, not less.
How the tactile knowledge of making is being eroded and reinvented in an age of parametric design and AI. The provocation traces how touch is simulated, gesture delegated, craft encoded, and material made responsive.
RIA has joined the New European Bauhaus (NEB) Community, an initiative of the European Commission, opening opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.
A half-day round-the-table discussion and exhibition at Maple House, London, exploring how AI and automation can support circular approaches across architecture, engineering and construction. Submissions close on 16 October 2026.
