I am an architectural theorist and systems designer interested in the relationship between design and change. My work is located at the intersections of architecture/design and the broader field of systems-theoretic practices (systems research, cybernetics, critical theory, process philosophy). I examine how the histories of these encounters, as well as related ideas and methods, can inform the critical reimagining of ecological and technological futures in the face of increasing political instability, environmental degradation, and social inequality.

Most recently I taught and researched at the Chair for Theory and History of Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar where i was also the joint-principal investigator of the DFG(Germany)-AHRC(UK) funded collaborative research project Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design (2023-2025), which will culminate in a co-edited volume titled Gregory Bateson, Ecology and Design (Transcript Verlag, 2026). 

At UL, I run a research group on Systems and Speculations that includes research seminars, public dialogues and projects reimagining ways of engaging the messy systemic issues and contradictions related to growing (Irish)cities. I also teach undergraduate and graduate level courses on Contemporary Issues in Architectural Theory: Architecture and Ecology and co-teach/co-supervise Architecture Theory Thesis modules.

Research

Outputs related to previous research on architecture, ecology, cosmology, technics and futures can be found in various co-authored and co-edited publications which include Contrapractice (Bloomsbury, 2026), Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Design (Footprint Journal, 2025), The Space of TechnicityTheorising Social, Technical and Environmental Entanglements (TU Delft Open,2024), All is in Formation: Architecture, Cybernetics, Ecology (Footprint Journal, 2021), Architecture and the Machinic (Anhalt University Press, 2018), as well as research articles and chapters published in multiple contexts such as Journal of Architectural Education(JAE), Journal of Architecture(Cambridge University Press), New and Experimental Research in Design (Birkhauser) , Techneoetic Arts (Intellect),Contexts—The Systemic Design Journal and Failed Utopias: Cybernetics in Latin America(forthcoming,MIT Press)

Teaching

I advocate for speculative forms of architectural and design theory education that go beyond merely mapping and articulating concerns related to ecological and technological futures for a narrow disciplinary audience. I experiment with teaching practices that aim to make these concerns part of the broader public and political imagination. I use various dialogical, playful, and storytelling methods to collaborate with students and others in creating such alternative contexts for learning. Some of my previous work include Gregory Bateson's Cosmos(2025), podcasts on Enacting Ecological Aesthetics(with Stefanie Hüthofer, 2024)  Buildings, Narratives and Minnette De Silva(2023) funded by Ideenfonds lehre , Second order Design Fictions(2022), Critical Ecology Matters (2021) funded by Bauhaus module,After Work (2021) funded by Kreativfonds, Institute of Utmost Environmental Justice(2020),and Wicked Problems, Wicked Play (2019).

I trained and practiced as an architect in Sri Lanka, completed my PhD in architectural theory at the University of Hong Kong where my project titled Architectures of Coevolution: Second-order Cybernetics and Architectural Theories of the Environment c. 1959-2013 was funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. I have held various research and teaching positions in various institutions in Sri Lanka(University of Moratuwa), New Zealand(Unitec Institute of Technology), Hong Kong(University of Hong Kong), Myanmar, Netherlands(TU Delft), Switzerland(Lucerne University of Applied Sciences) and Germany(Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bauhaus Dessau, Bauhaus University Weimar) and have colloborated with various communities across these diverse contexts. I have developed global collaborations with design research groups such as Studio at the Edge of the World(Australia), Prototyping Social Forms at Synthesis Research Group (Arizona State University) Radical Methodologies Group (University of Brighton) and Architecture and Philosophy and Theory Group (TU Delft). I am an editorial board member of the Footprint: Delft Architectural Theory journal(TU Delft) and a member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association(AHRA), Systemic Design Association(SDA), American Society of Cybernetics(ASC). I am a member of the Bauhaus Institute and was a part of the Bauhaus University Graduation Committee from 2021-2025. I have received awards for my work in architecture such as the University of Moratuwa Gold medal(2010), Sri Lanka Institute of Architects Gold medal(2011) as well as the Heinz von Foerster award (2021) for my work in systems and cyberentics research.

Languages: English(able to speak/ write/ review), German(able to speak/ write/ review), Sinhalese (native language)