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Melissa Sterry started her lecture ¨Building A Bionic City: The Place Where Science Fiction Becomes Fact¨ with the question:

What is the city of the future?
A question that, as she says, humanity has been pondering for millennium.

” …Architects, planners and developers generally present the future city as an idyllic setting, comprised pristine buildings and infrastructure, with not so much as a piece of chewing gum stuck to the pavement… ”

Futurists, sci fi authors and filmmakers have envisioned and have presented different versions of future realities and future societies. Robots, Synthetic biology, extreme speeds, huge amounts of energy etc. are the compromising protagonists of these future mega-cities.

To the question : Can we transform cities into intelligent, interactive living organisms? Melissa had to say:

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Last weekend DS1 had a workshop with Francisco Villeda . Francisco Villeda is an Associate Architect at JDSA Copenhagen (Julien de Smedt Architects) and IAAC alumni.  Francisco has experience in international competitions and projects and has a high level of professionalism regarding to design, visualization, and team management. The students during the workshop were focused on their  design project as they are being developed at the DS1 studio line of the MAA. Hours of hard work, presentations, physical models and discussions have been the main goal of the workshop this weekend. Lots of energy at iaac after a grateful holidays. Fresh ideas brought from their research studio trip to Japan are growing day by day.

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The 3rd term of the MAA 2011-12 has started.

The RS3-Digital Tectonics Master Studio has started with renewed energy and two work sessions dedicated to summarize and present the state of the students work in both the technical and the conceptual fields. A new more dialectic format that encourages participation has been tested these days for the presentations . Some time was given for discussing the impressions of the Research Trip with comments on the visits that the group had in different Universities, Museums and Building. The projects are now being reshaped and are starting to focus on the final sprint.

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RS2 goes to Boston. Visits started at MIT’s Media Lab new Building, by Fumihiko Maki, where CBA (Center for Bits and Atoms) Fab Lab is settled. Researchers like Kenny Cheung or Nadia Peak where presenting their works. Group also visited Carlo Ratti’s Senseable City Lab where Copenhague Wheel prototype was being tested. At MIT architecture department a round table on self-sufficiency took part between IAAC’s RS2 students and Andrew Scott students, with Nader Tehrani guiding the conversation.

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Object 3D print test of a plastic origami

RS2 visits the WYSS Institute with Benjamin Hutton, the nanotechnology and micro-robotics research center associated to Harvard Engineering University. There, researchers presented their advances on intelligent surfaces, adaptive transparency engineered polymers, and flying or inflatable micro-robotics. Areti Markopoulou presented last research and academic projects of IAAC. Afterwards, RS2 visited Harvard GSD for a presentation on digital fabricarion and programming applications with Leyre Asensio and Panagiotis Michalatos. Andreas Georgoulias presented their research projects on ecologic infrastructures rating system.

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RS2 visits last architectural icons at New York before going to Princeton and Boston. After checking in F.Ll.Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, group crossed Central Park going to Soho, where Sanaa’s New Museum and Steven Holl’s StoreFront art gallery stands.

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RS1 at Arata Isozaki Office in Japan with Arata Isozaki.

RS1 at Prada, by Herzog y de Meuron

Rs1 at Kurokawa´s Capsule Hotel in Tokio.