Monthly Archives: May 2014

IAAC visiting lectures in Russia // Advanced Architecture Towards the Next City

IAAC will be visiting Russia next week in a series of conferences with Areti Markopoulou, IAAC Master Program Director, on Advaneced Architecture, Towards the next city. This tour was made possible thanks to Sreda (www.sredadesign.org), general organisation partner for the Global Summer School in St. Petersburg,  Simplex Noise (www.simplex-noise.com), lecture co-organisation in Russia, and Daniyar [...]

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Friday 23rd of May: JOHN PALMESINO // Fathoms

Friday 23rd of May 2014 John Palmesino Lecture: Fathoms @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public JOHN PALMESINO John Palmesino is an architect and urbanist. He has established Territorial Agency together with Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency is an independent organisation that innovatively promotes and works for sustainable territorial transformations. Territorial Agency works to strengthen [...]

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MAA students design THE MODULES // CCCB – BIG DATA EXHIBITION 2014

In response to the request of the CCCB Barcelona to create furniture – in particular for the Big Bang Data Exhibition – that would fit the ever changing needs of a space for workshops, the Fab Lab Barcelona and the design team of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) proposed several options. “The [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // BRICK WORKS THIN-TILE VAULT // day 4 & 5

Days four and five of the Brick Works Thin-Tile Vault Seminar – both days on the site at the Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs – kicked off with a collective effort to finish mounting the Laser-cut cardboard pieces that were used as guides for the construction process. These were attached to the wooden formwork. The steel [...]

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PRACTISE FABRICATION // ROBOTIC MICRO CARPENTRY // day 1 & 2

The Practise Fabrication // Robotic Micro Carpentry Seminar, led by Tom Pawlofsky – ETH – with Alexandre Dubor and Sofoklis Giannakopoulos, explores the KUKA robot as a multi-tool, micro factory. The aim is to give an introduction to robotic fabrication, focusing on setting up processes and tools to be used with the robot. The students [...]

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Close to the Body // Workshop

IAAC Advanced Interaction students along with ESDi students and Estruch artists participated in the Close to the Body workshop, with Oscar Tomico from the Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group at the Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, in order to research the design wearable’s, the material, the body and performativity Close To The [...]

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NEWS INTERFACES SEMINAR // Final Presentation

The New Interfaces Seminar, led by Luis E. Fraguada, invited the MAA Students to Gamify their projects with Unity. This very interesting and fun four-day workshop was the first time Unity has been integrated in the masters program. The out come was a good dose of C# programming and some special effects, and the projects [...]

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