About

Steven Charlton is the Founder and CEO of i/o atelier, a design-led, technology-enabled interior architecture studio working across the UK, UAE and Saudi Arabia. He also founded and leads nHabit, a PropTech venture applying AI to how people search for places to live.

With two decades leading global design studios, Steven brings together architects, interior designers, data scientists and machine learning engineers to blend design craft with data science. His interests include data-augmented design, adaptive reuse and sustainability, and creating spaces tuned for neurodiversity and genuine inclusivity.

In this Architecture Social conversation, Steven explores how data and AI can give designers better evidence, sharper options and clearer ways to test a decision, and why human judgement remains central to good architecture and design.

Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Data and Creativity: How Will AI Disrupt Architecture and Design?.

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