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Today at Open Thesis Fabrication Programme, Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, had a desk crit with students, checking the development of their projects.

Tonight, according to the program of Lecture Series, IAAC welcomed Catarina Mota, one of the most eminent representatives of the Hacking movement. Catarina, a Global TED Fellow born in Portugal, is cofounder of Lisbon Hackerspaces network, Open Hardware Summit Co-Chair and founder of Open Materials, a project born to create a community around open, shareable and DIY materials.

Catarina gave a talk and then followed a panel including Simone Cicero – collaborative production expert, blogger at meedabyte.com and OuiShare Connector in Rome – and Tomas Diez – Director of FabLab Barcelona moderated by Ben Tincq, OuiShare Co-Founder.

During this session we explored all the possibilities behind DIY and collaborative production and the impacts of decentralized economy on society pillars like Education, Design and Supply chain.

Brian Peters, a real brilliant IAAC Alumni, has been published today in DEZEEN, the world famous design and architecture digital magazine, for his work about the adaptation of a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures. His work, called Building Bytes 3D Printed Briks, is now on show at Dutch Design Week. The resulting Building Bytes project predicts that 3D printers will become portable, inexpensive brick factories for large-scale construction.

Now based in Amsterdam, Brian is co-founder of architecture studio Design Lab Workshop and is currently working with DUS Architects to create a large 3D printer for making full-scale structures.

CONGRATULATIONS BRIAN!!!!

more info:

http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/31/building-bytes-3d-printed-bricks-brian-peters/

Manuel Gausa, IAAC Dean, has been interviewed by Llàtzer Moix , Chief editor of culture of La Vanguardia, one of  the newspapers most read in Catalunya.