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Jean Michel Crettaz is an architect, artist and educator. He studied at the AA Architectural Association in London and the Cooper Union in New York. He holds an Honors Diploma from the AA, and Environmental Engineering Diploma with Distinction from the Technikum Schule Bern Switzerland. Prior, he studied Fine Arts at the Art School in Bern and attended the Rudolf Steiner College. After a period of extensive world travel he spent seven years as Ass. Professor at the ETH in Zurich, followed by a seven year period at the Architectural Association in London as Diploma School Unit Master and Head of Communications. Jean Michel joined the design faculty at SciArc Los Angeles in 2003. From 2005 he headed Visual Studies and from 2009-11 he directed the SciArc MediaSCAPES Postgrad Program. He has practiced, taught, lectured and exhibited in Europe, Far East, and the United States. His interests are interdisciplinary with work synthesizing architecture propositions into sensory experience of dynamic and relational structures. He pursues form finding in metabolic energy exchanges and design of synthetic ecologies with none-linear spatial conceptions. slapHQ.com slap! [stopLAproduction] is an international collaborative for architecture design & media research funded by Jean Michel in Los Angeles in 2005. Projects engage environmental concepts conceived from a pool of highly innovative and skilled practitioners and researchers uniting architects, scientists and fabricators. slap! realizes a variety of installation projects, commissions, and novel products. Projects incorporate operatives and dataflow of prototype environments drawn from geo- and eco-specific information. slap! works with ubiquitous technologies and arising conflicts inherent to human needs, with work exploring immersive and experiential prototypal structures.