Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
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 [...]
Today Enrique Walker presented a Lecture on his theory research project the Dictionary of Received Ideas. Enrique conceives his teaching space as a testing ground, generating evidence through the work of his students during studio. He then starts writing… The Dictionary of Received Ideas wishes to investigate both Practice and Ideas, or Theory and Design, [...]
Enrique Walker at the IaaC Lecture “The Dictionary of Received Ideas“ 30th of April // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Enrique Walker is an architect and Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, where he also directs the Master of Science program in Advanced Architectural Design. His publications include, Tschumi [...]
Today Alejandro Tamayo took us through his journey of technology between magic and everyday life, presenting us 4 of his more technology orientated projects. His first approach to technology was through a camera, using the camera to see something that can’t be seen with the naked eye, and using this both as a protection and [...]
Alejandro Tamayo at the IaaC Lecture “Technology: between magic and everyday life“ 29th of April // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA Alejandro Tamayo is an artist, researcher and teacher working in the intersections between artistic practice, science, technology and everyday life. He has been a tutor at Medialab Prado interactivos? workshops including Technologies of Laughter [...]
In his lecture entitled ‘Ending Poverty in 10 Years’, Mr. Negroponte talked about how technology can help developing countries fight against poverty by teaching kids means to educate themselves. ”If you can learn to read, you can read to learn”.
Before giving his lecture today, Nicholas Negroponte visited IaaC. During the tour around the Institute’s facilities, Mr. Negroponte had the opportunity to watch the student’s projects and talk with them about their work.