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Oficial launch of City Protocol Society_Smart City Expo 2012

By admin | Published: November 13, 2012
On Tuesday, November 13, within the Smart City Expo World Congress 2012 Barcelona City Council presented the City Protocol Society, the Global Alliance that was created with the support of more than 50 cities, companies, universities and research centers from around the world to define a global, cooperative framework among cities, industries and institutions with the goal to address urban challenges in a systemic way in areas such as sustainability, self-sufficiency, quality of life, competitiveness and citizen participation.
IAAC was one of the main promotors of this proposal, and since 2010 is working in many projects and research related to this city protocol.

What is a city protocol?
City Protocol is a new open, global, and progressive working framework for cities worldwide to assess and improve performance in environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, quality of life and city services, by innovating and demonstrating new leadership models, new ways or engaging society and by taking advantage of new information and communication technologies (ICT).
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VISUALIZING GLOBAL MARATHON at IAAC

By admin | Published: November 12, 2012

IAAC as academic partner of Visualising.org was this past weekend the Barcelona Hub of 2012 Visualizing Global Marathon.  IAAC hosted over 100 participants from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya; Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyers de Camins, Canals i Ports de Barcelona; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Elisava; IED; Bau and IAAC’s students. They were invited  to participate in the largest-ever student data visualization competition sponsored by GE and Google. Three days of non stop working!!
The Challenges
The Visualising Global Marathon launched three different challenges:
Challenge 1: Real-Time. “DISEASE ALERTS”
Challenge 2: Big. “GLOBAL FLIGHTS NETWORK”
Challenge 3: Social. US ELECTION IN SOCIAL MEDIA

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: METTE RAMSGARD THOMSEN

By admin | Published: November 6, 2012
Tonight Mette Ramsgard Thomsen gave us a lecture questioning the role of digital in architecture: How can new ways of understanding the digital lead to new ways of understanding the material? Often digital and material are seen as different domains in architectural thinking.
By questioning the role of the digital, her talk pointed to new ways in which we can think material practice in architecture. The talk presented work from CITA’s research portfolio and showed case its practice based research method.

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Desk Crit by METTE RAMSGARD THOMSEN on Open Thesis Fabrication Programme

By admin | Published: November 6, 2012

Today at Open Thesis Fabrication Programme, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects.

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IAAC LECTURE SERIES: CATERINA MOTA

By admin | Published: November 5, 2012

Tonight, according to the program of Lecture Series, IAAC welcomed Catarina Mota, one of the most eminent representatives of the Hacking movement. Catarina, a Global TED Fellow born in Portugal, is cofounder of Lisbon Hackerspaces network, Open Hardware Summit Co-Chair and founder of Open Materials, a project born to create a community around open, shareable and DIY materials.

Catarina gave a talk and then followed a panel including Simone Cicero – collaborative production expert, blogger at meedabyte.com and OuiShare Connector in Rome – and Tomas Diez – Director of FabLab Barcelona moderated by Ben Tincq, OuiShare Co-Founder.

During this session we explored all the possibilities behind DIY and collaborative production and the impacts of decentralized economy on society pillars like Education, Design and Supply chain.

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Brian Peters -IAAC Alumni- presents BUILDING BITES

By admin | Published: October 31, 2012

Brian Peters, a real brilliant IAAC Alumni, has been published today in DEZEEN, the world famous design and architecture digital magazine, for his work about the adaptation of a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures. His work, called Building Bytes 3D Printed Briks, is now on show at Dutch Design Week. The resulting Building Bytes project predicts that 3D printers will become portable, inexpensive brick factories for large-scale construction.

Now based in Amsterdam, Brian is co-founder of architecture studio Design Lab Workshop and is currently working with DUS Architects to create a large 3D printer for making full-scale structures.

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN!!!!

more info:

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/31/building-bytes-3d-printed-bricks-brian-peters/

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Marcella del Signore invited at IAAC Lecture Series

By admin | Published: October 30, 2012

Tonight IAAC welcomed the italo-american architect Marcella Del Signore, who gave a lecture about PROTOTYPING THE TEMPORARY CITY

Today the notions of temporality and event play an important role in the strategic definition of the contemporary city. The concept of the temporary city unfolds out of an understanding that the city as our social, economical, and ecological environment is rooted in a  four dimensional scenography. In contrast to static master plans and technocratic top-down strategies, designers, artists and more recently city planners are exploring temporary tactics to provide immediate response to urban issues and to act against  the lack of local urbanism.

 

 

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