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AFRODITI PSARRA // Presentation & Demo

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Afroditi Psarra for a Demo and Presentation of her latest works. Afroditi has been at IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona for the past 10 days undertaking a residency as part of the European Arts Science and Technology Network development.

Afroditi Psarra (Athens, 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist and a PhD candidate at Complutense University of Madrid, in the field of Image, Technology and Design. Her work explores the boundaries between traditional handicrafts, pop culture and science fiction. Her artworks include a wide variety of media, from electronic embroideries and wearables to interactive installations and sound performances. She has presented her work in numerous media art festivals and she has worked as an intern at Disney Research in Zurich.

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IAAC @ Festival des Architectures Vives in Montpellier

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This year IaaC was invited to participate in the Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV), an ephimeral architecture festival that takes place in the historical centre of Montpellier. FAV occupies squares and spaces that are not usually open to the city for one week, allowing people to discover these spaces through the paralell discovery of ephimeral architectures proposed by emerging young architecture studios, as well as an invited university – this year IaaC.

The IaaC installation proposes to create a space within space, a pavilion in a courtyard, to enhance the intimacy and privacy suggested by the existing courtyard. The pavilion is a textile construction, generated through the use of the least possible structural elements, floating in equilibrium like a sheet strewn in the wind. The structure is lightweight and collapsable, designed and built by students in the framework of the Experimental Structures academic course in the Masters in Advanced Architecture course. When installed in the courtyard, the pavilion develops its interactive potential through a sensoral experience. Entering this new living space in the courtyard and touching the fabric walls, the courtyard takes life under the form of a soundscape from the outside world. The textile structure reacts to the users incorporating the senses of sight, touch and hearing, finally evoking a diverse reality.

The installation is realised in collaboration with Serge Ferrari and the European Art Science and Technology Network.

For more information on the programme and installation: http://bit.ly/IAACatFAV

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JOHN PALMESINO // Fathoms

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting John Palmesino, and his Territorial Agency partner Ann-Sofi Rönnskog, as part of the IaaC Spring Lecture Series 2014 discussing “Fathoms”, an excursus through theoretical and practical experiences of the Territorial Agency.

Fathoms, a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 metres), chiefly used in reference to the depth of water. The original sense was ‘something which embraces’, ‘the outstretched arms’; hence, a unit of measurement based on the span of the outstretched arms….

John Palmesino proposes the term “Fathoms” to question how we approach architecture, intended as a comprehensive and transdisciplinary field:

What is our time? How do we measure it?

We are confronting the rise, extension, deployment and stabilisation of a series of new spaces: territories are reshaped, political connections cut through, agricultural structures reshaped, cities intensified, infrastructures severed and reorganised, resources accessed and exploited. A new series of human spaces is taking form at a dimension unprecedented, sweeping across existing relations, establishing new compounds and moulding new industrial and financial supply chains.

Architecture sets out to measure, sense, imagine and interact with these unfolding form-generating processes: it engages with them, it stabilises them, it amplifies and sustains them, often with disruptive and dislocating outputs. Separation, segregation, disconnection, severance, containment, exclusion are operative architectural forces that are reshaping human activities in our time; as well as reaching out, interconnecting, circulating, globalising, linking and spinning. Do we have the courage to think architecture at the intersection and in interaction with these new, vast, coercive and consistence forms? Can architecture re-imagine them? Dislodge their brutality?

Before the Lecture, both John and Ann-Sofi were guest crits, along with Maite Bravo, in the mid-term presentation of the Emergent Territories Research Studio, led by Willy Muller, with Pablo Ros and Jordi Vivaldi.

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Friday 23rd of May: JOHN PALMESINO // Fathoms

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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 the capacity of local and international communities in comprehensive spatial transformation management. Territorial Agency’s projects channel available spatial resources towards the development of their full potential. Territorial Agency’s work builds on wide stake-holder networks. It combines analysis, projects, advocacy and action. Territorial Agency’s projects include the Athropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke, and a series of researches on European transformation processes. He is the director of AA Territories Think Tank and a Unit Master at the Architectural Association in London, he teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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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 presented ranged from immerse environments to educational games that explain issues of the studio projects.

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FLY VALLDAURA // OPEN SOURCE DRONE WORKSHOP

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IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona with Flone present Fly Valldaura, a workshop towards the design and fabrication of Open source Drones.

PROGRAM

Engage in a workshop to build a Flone-Drone from a kit of parts. Learning to solder the components, assemble the frame as well as to program the circuit boards.

The group workshop is an intensive 4 days situated in the 140 hectares at Valldaura Labs. Participants will stay at Valldaura with the option of accommodation, food and drone kit included.

The 4 day workshop will also include drone – fu piloting practise as well as a number of lectures and mapping exercises. Participants will take home their own flone- drone and will receive the mapping data that we generate during the event. Both individuals and Groups welcome.

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ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG // Radical Urbanism: A Search for a New Architecture

Tonight we had the pleasure of hosting Alfredo Brillembourg, as part of the IAAC Spring Lecture Series, presenting his concepts of Radical Urbanism  and the search for a new architecture.

Mr Brillembourg presented Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. The philosophy of U-TT is to deliver innovative yet practical solutions through the combined skills of architects, civil engineers, environmental planners, landscape architects, and communication specialists. U-TT’s work concerns both theoretical and practical applications within architecture and urban planning. Working in global contexts by creating bridges between first world industry and third world, informal urban areas, they focus on the education and development of a new generation of professionals, who will transform cities in the 21st century.

This was elaborated during the lecture through the presentation of a series of key projects regarding Public Buildings, Infrastructure and Housing projects, with the aim of confronting realities to create realisable utopias, pushing designers to step out of their comfort zones and onto the ground, giving up the concept of “signature architecture”, and ultimately designing structures that will be finished by others, according to the specific needs at hand, transforming architecture into a moderator.

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