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The Shape of Information – Final Presentations

iaac — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:39:46 +0000

After a week long Research Studio, conducted by Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal the student Emergent Territories have presented their proposals focused on innovation and strategic system. Each proposal is connecting the use of renewed energy sources to the new mobility system in a strategic part of the city. The urban scale and small scale come together, through the real models the students tested their smart ideas.

AGENT Lecture by Alberto Villarreal

iaac — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:48:25 +0000

CTrus is the first airless soccer ball with position detection technology created by AGENT, it’s functional principle is based on the mechanical properties of its materials. Composed by an inner structure and outer net-embedded shell, made out reinforced elastomers.

Alberto Villarreal is a Mexico City based industrial designer with over 10 years of international experience. Characterized by a diverse portfolio of projects, his work spans a variety of industries and products such as: sports equipment, private and public transportation, furniture, toys, consumer electronics, high-tech medical devices and appropriate technology. Some of previous involvements include: Adidas, Nike, Hewlett Packard, SanDisk, Pantech, Konica-Minolta, Mercedes-Benz and LeapFrog.

RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 2

iaac — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:59:22 +0000

In today’s session, Alberto Villarreal explained how sometimes we get opportunities for design in things that we do every day and we have to be aware of this, and not take for granted just what you are able to see.

“Architecture is about discussion, that’s what it makes it happen” - Michel Rojkind.

RS1 Workshop: The Shape of Information, Day 1

iaac — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:28:04 +0000

The week long Research Studio workshop, conducted by guest lecturers Michel Rojkind and Alberto Villarreal of AGENT, has begun. In the first session they talked about mobility and the way different elements in a city should co-exist.