Monthly Archives: February 2013

TEI 2013 – International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction – Barcelona

By admin | Published: February 8, 2013

February 10-13, 2013. Barcelona, Spain. TEI presents the latest research results, developments and challenges in the fields of human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction design, interactive art, user experience, and the latest technological tools and developments. TEI is presented as a unique forum for the exchange of ideas and presentation of innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, [...]

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: ALISA ANDRASEK – BIOTHING

By admin | Published: February 7, 2013

Tonight at IAAC, Alisa Andrasek, architect, curator and founding principal of Biothing gave us a lecture explaining how computational simulations could allow us  to access to behavioral tendencies of matter at a finer grain. Through several projects, Alisa showed the different uses that the new technologies can offer to architecture, not only in terms of visualization but specially in [...]

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IaaC Lecture Series: Alisa Andrasek

By admin | Published: February 6, 2013

Open Synthesis: Increased Resolution Fabric of Architecture Because of architecture’s nascent tendency to synthesize myriad of agencies involved in the formation of design, it has the potential to play an important role within accelerated convergence of matter and information. While data visualization techniques widespread in other fields are productive for the communication and legibility of [...]

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EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURES COMPETITION

By admin | Published: February 6, 2013

Can a pavilion inflate its skin and change its configurations according to the event? Can a pavilion be desmountable and so foldable to fit in a hand luggage? Can an exhibition space be adaptable descend from a ceiling and become a sensorial personal experience? Today the Experimental Structures Competition took place and we tried to realize some of this [...]

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MAI Smart Net Studio presentation

By admin | Published: February 6, 2013

The MAI students presented the Smart Net Studio Project that they have been developing during the december and january. The 6 groups of students proposed each one an intervention based in the Fablab “smart citizen” project. The work was presented in front of the tutors that have been leading the students research, and in front [...]

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