Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona making it happen for FAB10! All hands are on deck in preparation for the 10th International Fab Lab Community gathering of the year, don’t miss out on your chance to take part in this amazing event and be inspired by some of the world’s most innovative people! Photos by Thiago [...]
IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona was featured in El Periodico as a central player for Digital Fabrication innovation in Barcelona, and in preparation for FAB10, the 10th International Fab Lab Conference that will be held in IaaC | Fab Lab Barcelona this year. Barcelona is a city with an important and imposing industrial history, and that [...]
Friday 28th of February 2014 Massimo Banzi Lecture: Open sourcing innovation. @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public MASSIMO BANZI Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Whirlpool, V&A Museum [...]
Tonight we had the pleasure of taking part in the Fall Lecture Series 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture on Biomimetics and Bioinspiration. We were invited to think about architecture in relation to biology, for example: plants share many of the same characteristics as buildings, they are fixed in their context, they must accept what nature and [...]
Tuesday 22nd of October 2013 George Jeronimidis Lecture: Biomimetics and Bioinspiration - Smart solutions for functional architecture @ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium Open to the Public Professor George Jeronimidis is currently Emeritus Professor of Composite Materials Engineering and Director of the Centre for Biomimetics in the School of Construction Management at the University of Reading. In 2009 [...]
Today the IAAC OTF researchers presented their research proposals to the partner companies (KUKA, CRICURSA, SANTA&COLE, DUPONT, STORA ENSO, BREINCO and CERAMICA CUMELLA), as well as the research line advisors, to discuss the next possible steps towards the development of their experimental prototypes. 9 projects, presented by 10 OTF researchers, in total were presented inside the research lines of INTELLIGENT BUILDING CONSTRUCTIONS, [...]
Today at IAAC the OTF Researchers followed a lecture on Intellectual and Industrial Property & Unfair Competition, given by Ignasi Espiell, Santiago Nadal, and Mònica López, vibrant young and experienced lawyers from Volartpons and SNAbogados. This lecture gave the OTF Researchers the opportunity to understand and fully grasp the potentials, limits, the path to be undertaken, and possible problematics that can be [...]