Students of the IAAC Global Summer School are working hard in preparation for tomorrow’s final presentations. This week students have been focused on the digital fabrication and construction of their proposed models for the section of the Barcelona SuperBlock they have been assigned.
The Summer School students will present tomorrow at 12:00h at IAAC before a guest jury of Marta Malé-Alemany (IAAC, Co-Director MAA) Willy Müller (IAAC, Co-Director MAA) Lucas Cappelli (Director, Advanced Architecture Competition), Antoni Brey (URBIOTICA) and Andreu Ulied (MCRIT).
(Above: Testing of the connected nodes of the interactive model)
Final Open Lectures of the Global Summer School Series
The Global Summer School Lecture Series finished this week with lectures by Enric Ruiz-Geli (pictured above), Andrew Payne (LIFT Architects) and Usman Haque (Pachube). Each of the lectures in the series was related to the technology or ideas that the students are applying to their final projects. The goal of the IAAC Open Lecture Series is open these discussions to the public and to share ideas.
About the IAAC Global Summer School
The IAAC Global Summer School (GSS) is testing a distributed educational model seeking to generate a dynamic network based on distributed knowledge and collective actions.
IAAC GSS is taking place simultaneously in Barcelona, Turin and Mumbai. Students located in Barcelona (IAAC) and Mumbai (BSSA) will work under the same thematic research sharing seminars as well as broadcasted lectures from Barcelona, Mumbai, Turin, and Texas.
Self<a>rchitecture is an agenda, with both research and educational goals, that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning.
Throughout the program students will work in collaboration with many experts in the fields of environmental research and information technology including: Urbiotica, Masimo Banzi (Arduino), Usman Haque (Pachube), Thales Alenia Space, Nikos Salingaros, Dhananjay Gadre, Andrew Pane, Carlo Ratti (MIT SENSEable City Lab), Autodesk, McNeel Europe, and more.
Follow the summer school blog at: www.iaac.net/globalschool