22.04.10 Responsive Technologies Lecture Series

Invited by Manuel Kretzer & Professor Ludger Hovestadt

Poster

A 6 Page Spread on my work written by Terri Peters in the April/May Issue

http://www.mark-magazine.com/magazine/25

I will be speaking on Robotics in Architecture.

“This thread will bring together technologists, scientists and innovators in the realm of new materials and techniques. Experts in the field of digital and computational research will present advances in modeling and software, enabling an opening out of possible new applications. As well as new ideas in the conception of design, cutting edge building technologies will be presented and explored- ranging from new materials and façade systems, to sustainable technologies and construction techniques. The seminar will also discuss emerging technologies that affect the way that people use, work and live in buildings suggesting how design might adapt in parallel with these advancements, especially in the context of global warming and the demand for lower carbon solutions. Through presentation and discussion, it is hoped that unrecognized connections and relationships will be made as well as stimulating creativity in the way that architecture uses or responds to technological advances.” Building Futures Fair Website

Emergence: Art and Artificial Life

January 8 – May 7, 2010
Opening Reception: January 7, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Family Day: April 17, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Boxed: March 11, 6:30 – 9:00 pm

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The Exhibition features international artists exploring both the biological and computational manifestations of emergent behavior arising from dynamically changing, interactive sculptures. We as human beings are created and create through a process of emergence. Whether these emergent forms originate organically or are man-made, they can illustrate to us the rich variety of mutating systems with all their variety and ability to adapt to a changing world.

(Above) AAC Student Marilena Skavara 2009

Examples of Work from the Digital Studio Module 2008 (Marionette Project)

AAC Student Agata Guzik

AAC Student Vlad Tenu

Examples of Work from the Digital Ecology Module 2009

AAC Student Kensuke Hotta Physical Game of Life 2009

Student Ritchie Jackson 2009

AAC Student Agata Guzik 2009

Example of Research & Design from the MSc AAC Thesis 2009

Marilena Skavara 2009.

MA Textile Futures

MATF Student Berit Greinke

The 21st century marks the beginning of a new textile revolution , and we believe it is smart, invisible, sustainable, ethical and poetic. Smart? The emergence of intelligent technologies such as conductive textiles, sensory fabrics, wearable computing, biomaterials, nanotechnology demand greater collaboration between science and design to transform textile design processes and products. Invisible? New fibers and finishings create textiles with invisible built-innovative functionality such as vitamin-enhanced fabrics, anti-stress fibre, solar-reactive yarns and composite materials. Sustainable? Increasing demands to consider sustainability necessitate more responsible approaches to textile design. Issues of production, waste and post-consumption drastically change potential design processes and outputs.Ethical? Demographics, globalisation, changing consumption patterns that impact on markets can be challenged by design. Poetic? Human need for inspiring aesthetics and comforting material persists. The aesthetic and emotional qualities of cloth and craft become even more relevant in a high-tech, high speed consumer culture.

MATF Student Chloe Albert winner of Apple Award for Digital Innovation

MA Industrial Design

MAID Student Bruno Taylor (2008)

The intention of the course is to create an environment of creative and critical experimentation and exploration in which students are encouraged to challenge not only the objects which are the result of the process of design, but the matrix of roles, responsibilities and relationships within which the designer might work.

MAID Student Sara Bellini 2007

September 17 – November 7, 2009

Sentient City Hub Exhibition
The Urban Center
457 Madison Avenue
New York City

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Curatorial Statement by Curator Mark Shepard

“When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.” – Peter Cook

One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition at the Institute for Contemporary Art, London, remains remarkably relevant for anyone interested in the design and inhabitation of the contemporary city. In place of natural weather systems, however, today we find the dataclouds of 21st century urban space increasingly shaping our experience of this city and the choices we make there. To what degree are these informatic weather systems becoming as important, if not more so, than the formal organization of space and material?

Since the late 1980s, computer scientists and engineers have been researching ways of embedding computational ‘intelligence’ into the built environment. Looking beyond the paradigm of personal computing, which placed the computer in the foreground of our attention, research in ubiquitous computing projected a world where computers would disappear into the background, displaced to the periphery of our awareness. Enabled by tiny, inexpensive microprocessors and low-power wireless sensor networks, information processing was to become ambient. No longer solely “virtual,” human interaction with and through computers in this near-future world would be more socially integrated and spatially contingent as everyday objects and spaces became linked through networked computing… (more)

Digital Hinterlands features a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster. Organised by Ruairi Glynn and curated in consultation with Arup, this exhibition reveals how the latest computational design and rapid manufacturing processes are providing new ways of understanding and designing space. From built models, 1:1 fragments, material experiments and installations, to interactive devices, virtual worlds and robotics, this exhibition presents the ideas of a wave of young designers, operating on the speculative hinterlands of architectural design.

To celebrate London as a centre of design and innovation, the ‘Digital Architecture London’ Conference held at the Building Centre on 21st September 2009 presented a selection of London’s leading architects, artists, designers and engineers, examing how London is shaping the digital future of the built environment.

Introducing the latest developments in digital design practice, the conference explored new spaces, social interactions, design and fabrication processes, and speculated on architecture’s post-digital futures. DAL09 was directed by Ruairi Glynn with the support of London Digital Week, The Building Centre, Arup & The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Speakers included

Patrik Schumacher, Director and Partner, Zaha Hadid Architects and Co-Founder, Design Research Laboratory, Architectural Association.

Neil Spiller, author of Digital Architecture Now [2008], Visionary Architecture [2007] and many more; Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory; and Director of AVATAR at the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Brett Steele, Director of the Architectural Association School of Architecture and AA Publications; and Co-founder and former Director of the AADRL.

Tony Dunne, Professor and Head of the Design Interactions Department at the Royal College of Art; and Co-founder of Dunne & Raby.

Geoff Manaugh, Author of the popular website BLDGBLOG and recently of The BLDGBLOG Book, Chronicle Books [2009].

Usman Haque, Director of Haque Design; Research and founder of Pachube.com; and recent recipient of the 2009 World Technology Award (Art), Design Museum, 2008 (Interactive) Design of the Year Award and Wellcome Trust Sciart Award.

Daniel Bosia, Director of the Advanced Geometry Unit, Arup

As well as Murray Fraser, Hanif Kara, Rachel Armstrong, Bob Sheil, Charles Walker, Tobi Schneidler, Marcos Cruz, Alvin Huang, Matt Webb, Stephen Gage, Ruairi Glynn, Alan Penn, Marjan Colletti