SG2011: Conference Speakers Announced
Following 4 days of intense activity in the SG2011 Workshop at CITA, the SmartGeometry Group will conduct a 2-day Conference featuring an array of cutting-edge designers, artists, engineers, and thought-leaders.
The first of these two days, Talk Shop will feature panel sessions with guest speakers and a number of the Workshop Cluster Champions. Day two, the Symposium features a series of Keynote lectures ranging in scale from building facades to cities, from engineering to art. This will be followed by an evening Reception in the Workshop space where attendees will be able to view what developed at the workshop and speak with all those involved.
Symposium Speakers include:
Usman Haque - Haque Design + Research
Ben van Berkel - UN Studio
Billie Faircloth - Director of Research - KieranTimberlake
Craig Schwitter + Gijs Libourel - Buro Happold + Adaptive Building Initiative
IBM Smart Cities - http://www.ibm.com/thesmartercity
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen - Head of the Center for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA), Denmark
...more information
Conference Registration and a detailed Agenda to be announced soon.
SG2011: Workshop Applications
Applications for the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshops in Copenhagen remain open in the full-fee category only. A very limited number of positions are available.
MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY TO THE SMARTGEOMETRY 2011 WORKSHOP HERE
Registration to the SmartGeometry website is required for application.
Applications to attend the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop in Copenhagen will close on 20th February 2011 at midnight.
Applicants who met the 30 January and 6 February deadlines will be notified of their acceptance on Monday 21 February.
SG2011: Workshop Applications Deadline Extended
The application deadline for the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop has been extended to Sunday 6th February.
MORE INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY TO THE SMARTGEOMETRY 2011 WORKSHOP HERE
Registration to the SmartGeometry website is required for application.
Applications to attend the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop in Copenhagen will close on 6th February 2011 at midnight.
Informing Digital Design with Real World Data
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SMARTGEOMETRY 2011 CAN BE FOUND HERE
SG2010 Barcelona: Working Prototypes exhibition at DHUB
The SmartGeometry Group and DHUB invite you to a discussion with Jonathan Rabagliati, curator of the exhibition Working Prototypes, and Xavier De Kestelier, director of SmartGeometry.MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE EXHIBITION HERE
The event will take place on Tuesday 14 December at 7pm at DHUB's Espai 1, and marks the start of the exhibition.
Design Hub Barcelona
Montcada 12
08003 Barcelona
T 93 256 23 00
dhub@bcn.cat
Exhibition dates: 14 December 2010 - 27 February 2011
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday 11am to 19pm
Saturday, Sunday and public holidays from 11am to 20pm
SmartGeometry 2011 Copenhagen is announced!
The SmartGeometry Group is pleased to announce that the annual SG event will take place in Copenhagen 28th March – 2nd April 2011. The event will be the key event in the year for discussing, learning and networking about the emerging practice of digital parametrics within the AEC community.
The event will come in three parts, a Workshop (28-31 March), a public Shop Talk (1 April), and a public Symposium and Reception (2 April). These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in Barcelona 2010, San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.
MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SMARTGEOMETRY 2011 CAN BE FOUND HERE
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will take place at CITA http://cita.karch.dk/
This year's Challenge is entitled:
BUILDING THE INVISIBLE
Informing Digital Design with Real World Data
More information about the Challenge can be found here...SG 2010 Barcelona - Conference Videos Online
The proceedings of the 2-day SmartGeometry Conference in Barcelona have been posted online:
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEOSMany thanks to Bentley for sponsoring the event and hosting the videos!
SmartGeometry 2010 Workshops Slideshow
A small collection of images - many more to follow...
Use Twitter to influence Form at SG2010 right now!
Hello SmartGeometry workshop participants:
We would like to introduce Tweet-Form to you…
Tweet-Form is a mass-collaborative form-finding experiment and we want your input! The Parametrics and physical interactions cluster has designed a parametric model that you can access with Twitter.
It’s easy! Simply send tweets to PPIWorkshop and include any of the following keywords: lighter, heavier, taller, shorter, wider, thinner, rounder, squarer, smoother, boxier, twist, straighten. Please take care as Tweet-Form is CASE SENSITIVE!
Example: PPIWorkshop smoother wider taller
Setting up a twitter account is easy and only takes a second. Just go to twitter.com and click Sign UP Now.
Tweet-Form starts with a cube. Anyone in the world can access and change the form. Check in often to see what the form looks like. At these SmartGeometry workshops you can view the model of the large screen in the lecture space.
Iterations of the forms that are generated will be 3D printed.
James Willems Ransom
Candidate, Master's in Architecture
School of Architecture
University at BuffaloSG2010: Day One
The SmartGeometry 2010 Workshops at IaaC in Barcelona have begun!
Participants have just started developing their prototypes digitally, with some of the clusters rapidly moving into fabrication tests. The general sound level has been high with design conversations and noises coming from fabric cutters, robots, CNC machines, and laser cutters.
The Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design cluster completed its first batch of 3D prints (100's of nodes in a variety of shapes) and discussed the scale and location of their installation at IaaC. Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces finished assembling their curving wall which will be used as a framework for the acoustic panels under development these next three days. Curved Folding spent the day on form and surface discovery with paper prototypes; these will be scanned, converted to digital models, and then back to sheet metal surfaces. Explicit Bricks fired up the robot for the first foam block studies, completing a number of initial prototypes.
Click here for more information on the Clusters
Fabrication equipment was running till 10:30pm - up until the additional generators had to be shut off - but work continued late into the evening.
Click here to find out more about the Workshops and 2-day ConferenceSlideshow of Day One
Kuka robot in action
Registration is still open for the 2 Day conference following the Workshop.
Click here to Register for the 2-Day Conference (Shop Talk and Symposium)
Discounts are available for Academics and Students by contacting Bentley at this link.
SHOP TALK
23 March 2010
One day of informal discussions between leading practitioners and emerging talent in digital design, offering an inside perspective on how design prototypes are conceived, created, and tested. Shop Talk explores how the state of the art is forged in the studio.
Shop Talk discussions will be moderated by:
Eric Ellingsen Institut für Raumexperimente, Brady Peters CITA, Xavier de Kestelier Foster+Partners/Syracuse University, Joy Ko RISD/Brown, Jeroen Coenders Arup/TU Delft, Rob Woodbury Simon Fraser University, Axel Kilian Princeton University, Makai Smith Bentley Systems, Jenny Sabin/ Peter Lloyd Jones LabStudio/University of Pennsylvania.
SYMPOSIUM
24 March
Conference on Fabrication and Digital Manufacturing
Mark Burry RMIT
Enrico Dini Monolite D-Shape
Darren Davies Formula 1 car designers, Wirth Research
Rupert Soar Freeform Engineering Ltd.
Hanif Kara AKT
Adrian Bowyer University of Bath
Marta Malé-Alemany IaaC, AA
Jeroen Coenders Arup
Lars Hesselgren PLP Architecture
Reports and featured work from SG2010 Workshop Working Prototypes
EXHIBITION
Design Museum Barcelona (DHUB) will be exhibiting the prototypes produced during the SG2010 workshop ‘Working prototypes’ in May 2010. This will be part of a larger exhibition focused on fabrication and digital manufacturing curated by Marta Male-Alemany.
Tours of Sagrada Familia announced...
We are very pleased to announce exclusive tours of Gaudi's masterpiece, Temple Expiatori Sagrada Familia, with Mark Burry, Executive Architect and Researcher. Three tour times are available the day after the Symposium on 25th March 2010.
For more information and registration, check http://www.smartgeometry.org/content/sg-2010-barcelona
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