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Thursday 28th of May 2015 // Prof. Bob Sheil // Design through Production: Perform/The Scan
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Pavilion of Innovation 2015 by IAAC|FabLabBarcelona @Beyond Building Barcelona
Last May 19th to 23rd, Barcelona hosted the 19th edition of Construmat, the International Construction Faire. Within this new edition, and with the suggestive change of name to“Beyond Building Barcelona – Reengineering Construmat”, Fira de Barcelona set the challenge of including the Innovation Area to the traditional features of the Faire. For this reason assigned IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona the mission to design and execute the content and exhibition for the new Pavilion of Innovation 2015. Read More
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Digital Matter | Intelligent Constructions // mid term with Skylar Tibbits
Today the Digital Matter | Intelligent Constructions Research Line, led by Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Academic Director), had their Mid-Term Reviews with an all-star guest jury. The jury included Skylar Tibbits, Director of the MIT Self-Assembly Lab, Manja van der Worp, NOUS Engineering and IAAC Faculty, Moritz Begle, ETH and IAAC Alumni, Eduard Cabay, Appareil and IAAC Faculty, and finally Carmelo Zappulla, External Reference and IAAC Faculty.
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S10 – Experimental Structures // Final Presentations
On Thursday, the projects of the Experimental Structures seminar (Lightweight Structures 1:1 3rd edition) were exhibited at IAAC. Groups of students explored the applications of composite textiles and other lightweight materials in the fabrication of a large sphere, using the principals active tension, tensegrity, and expansion/contraction. Through the designing of a sphere, or its components, the intention was to focus on geometry and structural behavior, rather than habitability or otherwise architectural applications. The students worked transversely between digital and analog methods, using specific digital tooling for fabric pattering in complex geometries and CNC machine hacking. The seminar was lead by IAAC Academic Coordinator Silvia Brandi and assisted by IAAC Alumni Alejandro Martinez del Campo and Robert Douglas McKaye. Composite textile sponsorship was provided by Serge Ferrari. Additional jury members consisted of MAA Coordinator Maria Kupstova and computational faculty Rodrigo Aguirre.
See Students’ projects here.
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Oscar Tomico // Close to the body
Tonight our guest lecturer Oscar Tomico, invited as part of the spring Lecture Series 2015, discussed innovation in the form of the combination of soft materials with high technology with us, and which has led to the development of so-called Smart Textiles. These are of strategic importance for the European textile industry to sustain their competitive edge and to counter threats from low-labor cost producers. However, there is little research done on how to design with smart textiles besides the design of the smart textile itself. Fashion design takes a highly conceptual approach paying not enough attention to the dynamic qualities that the smart textiles afford, neither the transformation of the wearer into a user. The software and HCI community take a cognitive approach, using the same paradigm to design software to make what are so called wearables. The result is that the designs made hardly leave the catwalk or the gadget realm. In the Wearable Senses Lab at TU/e Industrial Design we research how to bring technology close to the body in a meaningful way. With a strong emphasis on theory like phenomenology, somaesthetics and new materialism we explore how textiles can be dynamic, behave & change properties based on our way of being & living. We experience interaction as a performance in everyday life. We design people’s intimate relation with technology by using our own bodies to ideate, explore and prototype in context.
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