Monthly Archives: February 2013

Desk Crit by Judith Leclerc on the Emergent Territories Studio

Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Judith Leclerc, founder of “CollLeclerc“, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics. During the presentations, the students showed her the proposals that they are developing in the territory of the Besòs river, one of the most complex and controversial sites [...]

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IaaC Lecture Series: Bernard Tschumi

Bernard Tschumi Architect, New York/Paris Professor, Columbia University Bernard Tschumi is an architect based in New York and Paris. First known as a theorist, he exhibited and published The Manhattan Transcripts (1981) and wrote Architecture and Disjunction, a series of theoretical essays (MIT Press, 1994). In 1983, he won the prestigious competition to design and [...]

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TEI 2013 Demos Showcase at IaaC

Last Tuesday IaaC and Fab Lab Bcn hosted the presentation of Demos developed during the Seventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction – TEI 2013. This event was the opportunity to showcase 45 demos from a diverse group of researchers, designers and students from Eindhoven University of Technology, Keio-NUS CUTE Center, Bauhaus-University Weimar, [...]

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MAI Research Studio: Close to the Body

This MAI Research Studio will be conducted by the Department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology and specifically by the following professionals: Eunjeong Jeon, Martijn ten Bhomer, Kristi Kuusk, Eva Deckers and Oscar Tomico. Other partners for the research studio will be the Higher School of Design (ESDi), part of the Fundació [...]

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THEORY COURSE – Dis-positions – Open and another look: opened logic, logical information

Today Manuel Gausa presented his concepts and the theories he developed on informational and open logics. Manuel believes that in the last 20 years a new way of thinking has emerged, that is a new operative logic, associated to a new territory of research, or “mental map”, through more open ways of conceiving and organizing [...]

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Desk Crit by Maria Bohigas on the Emergent Territories Studio

Today at Emergent Territories Studio, Maria Bohigas, Strategic Director at Barcelona Regional, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects and helping them with her critics.

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Machinic Conversations I: Hacking an industrial 6axis robot

The first design assignment for the students of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 was to develop and test communication protocols to control and manipulate the behavior of a large industrial robot. Since 6-axis machines such as the one in the IAAC Fab Lab are directly inherited from the mass production of cars and other industrial products, [...]

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