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IAAC Winter Lecture Series 2015 // Full Program

admin — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:09:21 +0000

Friday 23rd of January 2015

Jelle Feringa

EZCT Architecture & Design research

Tuesday 27th of January 2015 - 13.00-14.30

Dave Pigram

supermanoeuvre, Sydney [UTS]

Tuesday 3rd of February 2015

José Luis de Vicente

Journalist, digital culture, arts & technology

Thursday 12th of February 2015

Andrew Watts

Newtecnic, façade system design

Thursday 19th of February 2015

Alfredo Brillembourg

Uban-Think Tank & ETH-Zurich

Thursday 26th of February 2015

Alberto Diaspro

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, advanced materials

Tuesday 3rd of March 2015

Rodolphe el-Khoury

Dean, University of Miami

IAAC Lecture Series is FREE and OPEN to the Public

Lectures are held @ IAAC Auditorium

19.30 – 21.00

(unless otherwise indicated)

For more information, contact: info@iaac.net

FLY VALLDAURA // OPEN SOURCE DRONE WORKSHOP

admin — Fri, 09 May 2014 17:48:42 +0000

IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona with Flone present Fly Valldaura, a workshop towards the design and fabrication of Open source Drones.

PROGRAM

Engage in a workshop to build a Flone-Drone from a kit of parts. Learning to solder the components, assemble the frame as well as to program the circuit boards.

The group workshop is an intensive 4 days situated in the 140 hectares at Valldaura Labs. Participants will stay at Valldaura with the option of accommodation, food and drone kit included.

The 4 day workshop will also include drone – fu piloting practise as well as a number of lectures and mapping exercises. Participants will take home their own flone- drone and will receive the mapping data that we generate during the event. Both individuals and Groups welcome.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

- Tour of the site.

- Presentations drones Use / History / Future

- Film involving drones

- Mapping, scanning data sharing

- Open Discussion

PRICES

€550 - FLONE MAKER

FLONE KIT + TUITION + ACCOMMODATION

Add anther team member for €300

€350 - TRAVELLER

FLONE KIT + TUITION

Add another team member for €100

SCHEDULE

Saturday 31 _ 05 _2014

Tuesday 03 _ 06 _ 2014

Day 1 - CONSTRUCTION KIT

Day 2 - ELECTRONICS

Day 3 - PILOTING CLASSES

Day 4 - WHAT IF DRONES … ?

CONTACT

info@fablabbcn.org

jonathan@fablabbcn.org

REGISTER

valldaura-events.fikket.com

Martes 22 de abril: Benjamin Barber – Si Alcaldes gobernó el mundo: City, Metro Región y Provincia – ¿Cuál es el nivel adecuado de Gobernanza Urbana?

admin — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 07:30:18 +0000

Viernes 28 de febrero: MASSIMO BANZI – sourcing innovación abierta

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:04:01 +0000

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 and Adidas.

Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.

He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions allover the world.

Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect,both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.

Thursday 16th of January: MARIA AIOLOVA – The Art of Urbaneering

iaac — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:30:35 +0000

Thursday 16th of January 2014
Maria Aiolova
Lecture: The Art of Urbaneering.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MARIA AIOLOVA

Maria Aiolova is an educator, architect and urban designer in New York City. Her work is focused on the theory, science and application of ecological design. She is a Co-Founder of Terreform ONE. In 2013, Maria was appointed Academic Director of Global Architecture and Design of CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange). Presently, Maria chairs the ONE Lab NY School for Design and Science and the One Prize Design and Science Award. She is an institutional adviser to New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She won the 2013 AIA NY Award for Urban Design. Maria is currently a visiting faculty at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Most recently, she taught at Pratt Institute and Parsons the New School for Design. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of ETEX Corporation, a bio-tech company in Cambridge, MA. Maria is an inventor, who holds 18 technology patents. She was the winner of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award, and the Museum of Arts and Design in 2011. Maria has won a number of design competitions including first place in the CHARLES/MGH Station, Boston, and the Izmir Post District International Competition, Turkey. She also won the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity and the Build Boston Award.

Friday 10th of January: METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN – CITA Research Practice

iaac — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 11:56:51 +0000

Friday 10th of January 2014
Mette Ramsgaard Thompsen
Lecture: CITA Research Practice.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

METTE RAMSGAARD THOMPSEN

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with digital technologies. Her research centres on the relationship between crafts and technology framed through “Digital Crafting” as way of questioning how computation, code, material and fabrication challenge architectural thinking and material practices. Her work is practice lead and through projects such as Thicket, Slow Furl, Listener and Vivisection she investigates the design and realisation of a behavioural space.
Mette is a Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, where she heads the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA].
CITA uses a practice based research methods focussed on the conceptualisation, design and realisation of working prototypes and full scale demonstrators. CITAs work has a strong cross-disciplinary focus consolidates new collaborations with interdisciplinary partners from the fields of engineering, design, robotics and material science.We are proud to announce that this year IAAC and CITA will be collaborating in the development of the Research Studio in the Masters in Advanced Architecture investigating Digital Materials and Intelligent Constructions.

Thursday 9th of January: DAVID MOCARSKI introduced by ENRIC RUIZ GELI – ART CENTER meets IAAC

iaac — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:39:32 +0000

Thursday 9th of January 2014
David Mocarski introduced by Enric Ruiz Geli
Lecture: ART CENTER meets IAAC

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

After the Lecture Refreshments will be offered at Media-TIC, 22@Barcelona.

Cloud 9 and and Art Center are building together the project “a Mediterranean case study” in Aiguablava. The professors David Mocarski, James Meraz, Jason Pilarski and Kenneth Cameron and four students are in Barcelona to develop the construction and to meet the IAAC – FabLab. Art Center is the school number one in America in car design and product design. They are the designers of Apple stores, they have the cameras of James Cameron, designers of BMW cars, of TESLA cars, and the professor David Mocarski is the chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, he has an approach Holistic.

DAVID MOCARSKI

David Mocarski has explored the boundaries of the creative process for more than thirty years. He is the principal of Arkkit forms design, as well as chairman of the Graduate & Under Graduate Environmental Design Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena USA. Arkkit forms was founded in 1982 as a highly inter-disciplinary design studio. Arkkit forms has explored projects as diverse as packaging for Baron Philippe Rothschild, France and Taylor of Old Bond Street London, explored Furniture collections for DWR, Design Within Reach, Fiam Italia, Driade, Frag, Viccarbe, Ello, Galerkin and Artedi, designed corporate Brand & Identity development for: Vichan Winery, Napa Valley and CrossLynn Vineyards, entertainment graphics and collateral for Sony-Columbia-Tristar and a long list of contract, residential and exhibition spatial projects. Mocarski is known Internationally for his one-off and limited edition furniture works as well as residential & commercial spatial projects internationally.

David has also been involved with art & design education for more than thirty five years. In addition to developing the curricular direction for the Environmental Design department at Art Center College of Design, he has taught Fine Arts, Illustration, Graphics & Packaging, photography and Industrial design. Many of his students have gained significant global recognition for their efforts. His sponsored studios with Bernhardt design has defined a new model for how industry interfaces with education. He has been instrumental in the evolution of Art Center ’s International Study Abroad programs in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Berlin and has worked closely with DesignMatters on Humanitarian projects for: GE Healthcare Africa project and Un Techo Para Chile “ Safe Water Chile, Peru & Columbia” He has been has been instrumental in the development of theGrauate & Under Graduate Environmental Design program at Art Center and it’s focus on “Designing Spatial Experience”. He has been an educational leader at Art Center since 1978.

Mocarski’s work is highly sculptural in nature, driven by research, content and context. He believes that design is “from the first moment of encounter to the last moment of interaction”. Whether it’s creating an object, a place or a destination, he feels that the outcome is always about providing a supreme experience and that the most effective design is always about: attraction, involvement, interaction & producing satisfaction and/or inclusion beyond expectation. He also believes that nothing is more compelling than engagement & surprise, whether t be in the design of objects or spaces. Mocarski is known for exploring new materials, technologies and manufacturing techniques in his search of meaningful solutions. What is clear in his work is a unrelenting passion for all things art and design.

Mocarski has exhibited his work internationally since 1971, first in fine arts and later with limited edition and commission furniture works. His mentors are the early modernists such as Carlo Mollino, Gerrit Rietveld, Jean Prouve and Eileen Gray. He has always held a strong commitment to the idea of bringing “Art into Life”.

Thursday 7th of November: ECOLOGICSTUDIO – ENERGY BEYOND NATURE

admin — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 17:33:05 +0000

Thursday 7th of November 2013
ecoLogic Studio
Lecture: Ecology Beyond Nature

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

ECOLOGIC STUDIO

Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto are co-founders of ecoLogicStudio an architectural and urban design studio involved in digital design and architecture research for the definition of a new ecology of space and behavior.
Located in the east of London the studio has built up an international reputation for its innovative work on systemic design, a method defined by the combination and integration of systemic thinking, computational design, bio-hacking and digital prototyping. This broadened approach to design – ranging from the micro to the macro and from nanotechnologies to urban networks – is embodied into an experimental practice, where projects and installations become laboratories of interactions. Locally activated design protocols synthesize a form of expanded hyper-reality hacking larger organizational systems.Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto are active academics; they have been unit master at the Architectural Association in London, and are currently studio directors at the IAAC in Barcelona, as well as visiting critics at Cornell University.

Claudia is leader of the MArch in Urban Morphogenesis at Bartlett UCL and, with Marco, co-director of the BIO-UD Research Cluster at UCL Bartlett in London.
Their projects have been published and exhibited throughout the world, in particular in Venice Architecture Biennale (ecoMachines, 2008; The efData Grotto, 2010); Seville (STEMcloud, 2008), Istanbul (Fibrous Room, 2008), Milan (Aqva Garden, 2007), London (HORTUS 2012), in Paris (HORTUS.Paris 2013), in Orleans (Meta-folly 2013). Their latest research has been published in 2012 by Routledge in a book titled “Systemic Architecture”.

Stefano Boeri at IaaC_Newspaper Interview

admin — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 14:18:06 +0000

La Vanguardia_Stefano Boeri

MAI Dialogues: Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra

admin — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 10:00:10 +0000

This Monday, March 18th, MAI Dialogues presents Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra talks. 19.00hs, IaaC Auditorium.

Pablo Valbuena has become internationally recognized for his augmented architectures, dynamic forms where light and phisical structures combine to create a new hybrid language for form and space. Trained as an architect and having worked previously in videogames, his art projects in galleries and public space interventions preludes the explosion of “projection mapping” as a technique and has been extensively exhibited worldwide.

Jaime Serra is one of the most important names in the field of infographics today. Currently head of graphics at La Vanguardia, his body of work goes beyond the conventions of graphics for journalism and enters into the territory of information visualization and even visual poetry. His work is currently being exhibited at Ars Santa Mónica.

The conference will be streaming LIVE from IaaC’s youtube channel.