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Taller con Ronen Kadushin: Tu Diseño – Tu Camino
An amazing workshop was held this weekend at IAAC with the designer Ronen Kadushin about Open Design:
“As makers convincingly push on to become a cultural movement, they create a new breed of products that is free from traditional product design discipline, and the need to be perfect. These products are an authentic expression of the person or collaboration that created them, and with the practice of openness, successful products are quickly copied and modified. But to reach bigger audiences and have an impact on the way products come into the world, a maker has to consider the aesthetic qualities of hers or his creation, and the manner and content that is communicated through it. This workshop aimed to elaborate authentic expression by introducing a design process based on storytelling. A guided storytelling design process sets a creative environment for generating ideas and concepts, understanding their potential, and developing them into objects that reflect your character and unique way of expression. The workshop was a learning experience where the participants, their qualities, skills, creativity and energy were the focus.”
Ronen Kadushin – Open Design
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Jueves 20 de febrero: SIMON SCHLEICHER – Mecanismos de inspiración Bio – Proyectos con flexibilidad
Thursday 20th of February 2014
Simon Schleicher
Lecture: Bio-inspired Mechanisms – Designing with flexibility.
@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public
SIMON SCHLEICHER
Simon Schleicher is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator from Germany. He received a Masters degree from MIT in Architecture and a Bachelors degree from the University of Stuttgart. At the moment, Simon is working as Research Associate at the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) as well as working on his doctoral thesis supervised by Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers.
In his research on bio-inspired compliant mechanisms, Simon aims to transfer bending and folding mechanisms found in plant movements to elastic systems in architecture. He was project manager for the first ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2010, which won the DETAIL prize and was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award. With his work, Simon has won further awards including the Gips-Schüle-Forschungspreis, the International Bionic-Award, the Ralph Adam Cram Award, the Imre Halasz Thesis Prize, the British Institution Award, and the Pininfarina-Förderpreis. During his study, Simon was recipient of a Merit-Based Full-Tuition Scholarship at MIT and received grants from the DAAD and from the prestigious German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
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Lecture by RONEN KADUSHIN – Open Design: Products in a Networked Culture
Last Friday we had the pleasure of hosting the Winter Lecture Series 2014 with Ronen Kadushin.
Ronen Kadushin is a designer and also a design educator living in Berlin since 2005. He taught furniture design and design creativity courses at leading Israeli and European design academies since 1993. In 2004 Kadushin developed the Open Design concept, where the designs of his products can be downloaded, copied, modified and produced, much as in Open Source software.
Based on this concept, he formed Open Design, a design and production company for furniture, lighting and accessories which are produced in Berlin and sold in Europe and the USA. Open Design products are regularly presented in solo and group exhibitions world wide, and published in professional literature. Kadushin is teaching Open design courses in universities and speaks at conferences. Kadushin is the author of the Open Design Manifesto.
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IAAC @ BCN LLUM – Data net, Sensing real time behavior
Data net – Sensing real time behaviour is an installation that IAAC was invited design by the Barcelona City Council to within the BCN LLUM festival during the Santa Eulàlia cellebration.
In the courtyard of the museum Marés DATA NET is born, another tree next to the existing ones.This new tree, though, is forming an interactive mesh covering the patio of the museum.
You see the installation illuminated but you also find yourselves, as visitors, participating in the project.
The intensity of the lighting of the installation reacts to the location and the density of the visitors through a series of sensors thatracks people´s movement.
This way, visitors are not only observers of a space but participants in its creation, definition and variation.
DATA NET is reflecting a living organism that moves and evolves according to the data generated by the public.
Authors: IAAC
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia; Rodrigo Aguirre, Silvia Brandi, Guillem Camprodon, Alexander Dubor, Luis Fraguada, Areti Markopoulou, Anastasia Pistofidou.
Lighthig expert: Pablo Martinez.
3d Scanning: Henrik Leander Evers (CITA Copenhague)
Fabric manipulation: Claudio Marza.
Collaboradors: Moritz Begle, Karen Beyens, Alejandra Diaz de Leon, Blanca Duarte, Robert Garita, Anna Popova, Chirag Rangholia, Aldo Sollazzo, Angeliki Terezaki, Sebastian Varela.
Photo Credits: Filippo Poli
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