D爱Y® Maximiliano (Maki) Wardle

I am a creative and dynamic T-Shaped Researcher and Designer working at the cutting edge of immersive technologies, realtime-3D and science communication, with proven skills across the entire production pipeline. 






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I am an immersive systems designer based between York, London, and North East Fife. I am fascinated by the challenge of creating new narrative forms for diverse audiences using emerging technologies. I have developed prize-winning virtual environments that exploit the storytelling potentials of immersive media to explore relationships between technology, remembrance/forgetting, participation, ecology and the built environment.

In July 2022, I graduated at the top of my class from the first cohort of the BSc in Immersive Systems Design (3D Modelling) at The Glasgow of Art. My practice combines this rigorous technical foundation in the craft and science of 3D modelling and XR development and interdisciplinary research skills.

In September 2022, I joined Buro Happold’s Global GIS and Digital Twins Directorate in London as a Geospatial 3D Web Mapping & Game Developer. At BH, I established a track record for writing on successful multi-million pound bids for Digital Twin contracts around the world, developed innovative new procedural rendering methods for an Epic MegaGrants-funded Digital Twin in Unreal Engine, and was Lead UX Researcher and Designer on major contracts in the UK and Saudi Arabia.

Since September 2023, I have been pursuing an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. Working in collaboration with MOLA, the UK's leading archaeology consultancy, I am exploring the potentials of Alternate Reality Games as collaborative media to destabilise traditional, prescriptive forms of archaeological knowledge and generate open and participatory ways of making sense of (and, of course, having fun with) ‘difficult’ archaeological data. I am supervised by Colleen Morgan and Debbie Maxwell at York, Stuart Eve at Wessex Archaeology, and Andy Henderson-Schwartz and Jess Bryan at MOLA.

I am a native speaker of Spanish and English and I am studying Chinese at Advanced level.

I have given invited lectures and workshops on the theory and design of immersive and interactive media at the University of St Andrews, The Glasgow School of Art, and Tallinn University in Estonia.


Skills:

  • Excellent academic and commercial research, writing and presentation skills.
  • Extensive experience (6+ years)  developing Unity C# apps for desktop, mobile, WebGL, VR and AR. 
  • I have worked at professional level in Unreal as a primary contributor to an Epic MegaGrants-funded project.
  • Fluency in Adobe Creative Cloud Suite with particular strengths in Photoshop and After Effects.
  • A capable 3D modeller (3DS Max, Blender and ZBrush) and materials artist (Quixel and Substance).
  • Professional GIS capabilities including QGIS, FME and PostGIS. At Buro Happold, I headed up a Geospatial Data Governance Policy Review for the world’s most prominent smart city development.
  • I have worked on 3D scanning and photogrammetry projects in world-class institutions.



Awards:

  • Santander Brighter Futures Grant  2023  (£1000)
  • Glasgow School of Art Chair’s Medal in Simulation and Visualisation 2022



Conference Papers and Workshops:




Talks and Seminars:

  • Remnant: Archaeological creativity through the lens of Fife’s post-conflict landscape at Nordic TAG XVII, University of Turku, Finland, 6th-9th of March 2024
  • Guest Lecture at the School of Innovation & Technology, Glasgow School of Art, 31st of January 2024
  • Imaging/Imagining/Virtual and Digital Art, for the MRes in Anthropology, Art and Perception at the University of St Andrews, 23rd of November 2023
  • Mapping Materials and Materiality: Points of Interest for Creative Technolgists, for the First Year Colab-1 Module at the School of Simulation and Visualisation, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 15th of November 2022
  • Remnant: Fife’s Post-Conflict Concrete Landscape in VR at ISOdesign, Glasgow, 13th of July 2022



Teaching Assistantships:

  • Introduction to Media Technologies (TFT00020C) at the School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York, Semester 1, 2024-25


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