RS1-Lecture: Zero Emissions City

Zero Emission City held in the Emergent territories studio by Maite Bravo

It was an exciting lecture on sustainable cities from around the world which explored the progression from the human habitat of the nature to the creation of an informal city structure and finally to the utopia, and how they all lead us toward today’s sustainable city.

Maite Bravo furtheron  provided a demonstration of the artistic, functional, and cultural richness of vernacular architecture as a good example of a sustainable city.

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Rs_2 Self-Sufficient Buildings 1st presentations

In the first RS2_Self Sufficient buildings studio presentation  the students presented their case studies on  energy sufficient buildings and technologies. With critical thinking they shared their ideas on existing projects and systems trying to discover the distance between the successful theories and the successful practices on sustainable designs.

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Greek dinner party


Students from Greece offered a dinner with traditional food, drinks and Greek music background. Tasty dishes like pita souvlaki, greek salad, tiropitakia, mousaka, ouzo and more. Thank you for everything guys, it was delicious!.

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Interactive Systems Workshop


The students of Interactive System seminar participated in an intense workshop about Arduino and interactive circuits, conducted by Victor Viña. Students spent three days hacking into old toys, printers, and CD drivers, studying sensors and actuators and integrating them with software.

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Designing Associativity Seminar


The main focus of the seminar will be to operate with McNeel’s Grasshopper plug-in for Rhinoceros 4, described as a ‘generative modeling for Rhino’, Grasshopper is a design environment suited for the explorations through-out the seminar.

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Fab Academy 2011 – Second edition

50 Participants from 14 different sites. The Fab Academy 2011 has started on January 19th, 3pm Barcelona, 9am Boston, 6am California, 11pm Japan. Students from countries such as South Africa, United States, Iceland, Netherlands, Peru and Spain Read More »

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Visual Programming Seminar


Impure is a visual programming language that enables non-programmers to fully access the power of information comprehension and data processing. With Impure it is possible to gather information in real time from a large variety of data sources structured as well as unstructured; corporate as well as over the internet, social, financial, news, maps, search, images, government, etc.

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