Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
During this week, Smart Citizen platform will be displayed at the World Mobile Congress 2013. At the entrance of the Mobile Barcelona Festival booth (3C28 in hall 3) organized by mLove; IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn, together with MID and Hangar.org, features the Smart Citizen platform. Smart Citizen is a device to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. [...]
In his lecture entitled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves. ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.
Before giving his lecture today, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.
Nicholas Negroponte is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, and also known as the founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC). In 1967, Negroponte founded MIT’s Architecture Machine Group, a combination lab and think tank which studied new approaches to human-computer interaction. In 1985, he created the [...]
Last night at IAAC, architect Bernard Tschumi, gave a lecture presenting “Red is not a color”, focused on his recently published book. During the lecture, Mr. Tschumi discussed concepts in architecture through a comprehensive documentation of his 30-year investigations as a designer, builder, and theorist.
Yesterday, architect Bernard Tschumi before his Lecture, visited IAAC’s Studios and talked with the students about their projects.
Today at Emergent Territories Studio all the research-groups had their Mid-terms reviews. During the whole day the students presented to the jury the state of their work, related to the Besòs river site, one of the hardest locations in Barcelona. The jury was composed by Maite Bravo, Areti Markopoulou, Willy Muller and Luis Fraguada, all [...]