Jason Taylor is a Senior Lecturer and Architectural Digital Design (ADD) Lead at Manchester School of Architecture (MSA), where he leads the development and implementation of the school’s digital strategy. This includes evolving both its physical and digital infrastructure and leading initiatives related to AI and DELTA (Digitally Enhanced Learning, Teaching, and Assessment).
Throughout his academic career, Jason has built an extensive global network, collaborating with architectural practices, researchers, academics, and industry leaders in digital technologies, including Adobe, Autodesk, Chaos Group, and Epic Games, to drive knowledge exchange (KE) and secure sponsorship opportunities.
Before joining MSA, Jason held a three-year lectureship at Birmingham City University as Digital Design Coordinator and spent five years at Ravensbourne University as a Teacher and Fabrication Workshop Lead. His current research explores the impact of Ethical AI and its relationship to Design Cognition. His teaching praxis sits at the intersection of pedagogy, cutting-edge technologies, digital fabrication, and the relationship between analogue and digital design processes.
Jason is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and holds fellowships with the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and the Adobe Education Institute (AEI). He is passionate about developing digital literacies, tackling digital poverty, and mentoring the next generation of architects, 3D modelers, visualizers, BIM experts, fabricators, coders, and sustainable designers.
As an architectural digital generalist, Jason possesses specialist knowledge across over 210 software apps and plugins, including those for Visualization, Animation & Post-production, Technical Drawing, 3D Modelling & BIM, 3D Data Capture & Photogrammetry, Algorithmic Design, Computational Thinking, Coding & Simulation, Environmental Modelling, VR/AR/MR, UI/UX Design, Game Engines, Digital Fabrication, Robotics, IoT, and AI.
In addition to his academic work, Jason has collaborated with leading architectural practices such as Zaha Hadid Architects, RSHP, Gensler, ARUP, and Foster & Partners. His transdisciplinary approach to design has also extended to partnerships with brands like Audi, Nike, and Versace, exploring the crossover between analogue and digital techniques in various industries. Jason’s recent collaboration with The Alternative Limb Project, challenges the perceptions of limb difference and disability, and this has led him to developing his own range of high-end, low-cost 3D printed bespoke bionic limbs.