This year IaaC was invited to participate in the Festival des Architectures Vives (FAV), an ephimeral architecture festival that takes place in the historical centre of Montpellier. FAV occupies squares and spaces that are not usually open to the city for one week, allowing people to discover these spaces through the paralell discovery of ephimeral architectures proposed by emerging young architecture studios, as well as an invited university – this year IaaC.

The IaaC installation proposes to create a space within space, a pavilion in a courtyard, to enhance the intimacy and privacy suggested by the existing courtyard. The pavilion is a textile construction, generated through the use of the least possible structural elements, floating in equilibrium like a sheet strewn in the wind. The structure is lightweight and collapsable, designed and built by students in the framework of the Experimental Structures academic course in the Masters in Advanced Architecture course. When installed in the courtyard, the pavilion develops its interactive potential through a sensoral experience. Entering this new living space in the courtyard and touching the fabric walls, the courtyard takes life under the form of a soundscape from the outside world. The textile structure reacts to the users incorporating the senses of sight, touch and hearing, finally evoking a diverse reality.

The installation is realised in collaboration with Serge Ferrari and the European Art Science and Technology Network.

For more information on the programme and installation: http://bit.ly/IAACatFAV

The main purpose of the European Art Science and Technology Network (EASTN) Initiative is to contribute to make digital creativity more accessible, by promoting the development of a deep and collective knowledge of the current artistic movements and of theirs tools. Digital technologies play a significant and increasing part in artistic creation, from generating the substance of a work of art to broadcasting it. Nevertheless, because of a profusion of possibilities and because of the speed of evolutions, the inherent concepts of these tools are often overlooked by the general public, and even by the artists themselves. In order to ensure that Europe fully participates in the Cultural Revolution rising from these technologies and that European citizens are encouraged to be more than just isolated consumers, specific actions must be undertaken.

The central theme of 2014‐2015 is about Tangibility, which is at the heart of a major evolution in the creative field. Indeed, nowadays, new methods of interaction with the information and with digital medias are proposed, relying more on senses and gestures in a way to connect real and virtual worlds. In this way, the body resumes its predominant place in the act of creation, and the publics are able to achieve a better assimilation and utilization of the digital creation tools.

The missions of the network are:

_To support creation and artistic exchanges through residencies and workshops

_To conceive and realize digital tools in relation with tangible objects encouraging digital creativity

_To promote European digital creation to the general public