IAAC Blog » Symposium http://legacy.iaacblog.com Everyday life at the Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia Wed, 07 Oct 2015 10:24:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 FAB10 // THE ENDESA WORLD FAB CONDENSER http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/fab10-the-endesa-world-fab-condenser/ http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/fab10-the-endesa-world-fab-condenser/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2014 14:55:45 +0000 admin http://legacy.iaacblog.com/?p=12093 anim

Help us build the new Solar Pavilion during Fab10!

How can we capture the vastness of the world into one room, one single space that draws from multiple locations? How can we create that space so it could condense, represent and group a global network of Fabbers? And, furthermore, how could we do this collaboratively so people can plug, add, customize, propose, build, embed their designs and ideas into it?

The Endesa World Fab Condenser attempts to provide that space. It is designed to capture principles, ideas and people around the Fab Lab Network. It is a small, digitally fabricated pavilion that would serve as landmark of the Fab Lab community in the FAB 10 Symposium in Barcelona. It is a pavilion, but at the same moment is a collaborative performance, a party of fabrication where the final result would be equally important than the actual fabrication and construction phase.

Initial design by Margen-Lab, produced by IAAC and collaborative designed, build, and customized by the FabLab Network.

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]]> http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2014/fab10-the-endesa-world-fab-condenser/feed/ 0 Opening of The World Bank Symposium “Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future” http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2012/opening-of-the-world-bank-symposium-rethinking-cities-framing-the-future/ http://legacy.iaacblog.com/blog/2012/opening-of-the-world-bank-symposium-rethinking-cities-framing-the-future/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:49:42 +0000 admin http://legacy.iaacblog.com/?p=8724 On sunday night, in the Palacio de Congresos of Fira Barcelona, took place the great opening of The World Bank Symposium “Rethinking Cities: Framing the Future” with the exhibition My Very Own City (MVOC) curated by IAAC (curator: Areti Markopoulou, collaborator: Maite Bravo).


 
My Very Own City (MVOC) exhibit is a collective display featuring some of the most forward initiatives carried out by 23 Universities worldwide, representing a wide range of perspectives into the concept of Rethinking Cities.
Featuring more than 50 projects, this exhibit aims to be a collaborative dialogue around five key concepts about cities: “citizen”, “infrastructure”, “mobility”, “in-formed urbs” and “productivity”.
Responsive cities, distributed infrastructural networks, participatory informal settlements, adaptable habitat units, smart mobility systems, fab labs, new building metabolisms, productive territories and sustainable infrastructures, are some of the key concepts of My Very Own City.
 From utopias to subtle interventions, these projects become a collective reflexion on future and present cities.
A catalogue of the exhibition is also available, more information you can find athttp://www.rethinkingcities.org/exhibition/



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