Yearly Archives: 2013

IaaC Lecture Series: Bernard Tschumi

By admin | Published: February 18, 2013

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

By admin | Published: February 15, 2013

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

By admin | Published: February 14, 2013

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

By admin | Published: February 11, 2013

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

By admin | Published: February 8, 2013

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

By admin | Published: February 8, 2013

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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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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