The research network investigates how new digital production methods are instigating profound changes in the design and building of architecture. Developing the term digital crafting, the network examines how the maturing of interfaces between the design space of the architect and the production space of the manufacturer is leading to the shaping of a new material practice in architecture. The research network is supported by The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities.
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Two years of activities in the DigitalCrafting network with 5 workshops, 6 seminars and 2 international symposia will be documented in a book. This is already going to be published in February 212! A strong focus in the documentation is set on the members of the network. We will inform here about the further process and availability CITA is offering a PhD scholarship in “Complex Modelling”. The deadline for applications for the 3 year fully funded PhD is at 1. February 2012. more infos here
Over the last years the SmartGeometry conference has become one of the main hubs to exchange and test new ideas and concepts around computational design. The SG community is now inviting everybody interested to take part in the 2012 workshops and has a call for participation out. SmartGeometry 2012: Material Intensities The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and information. sg2012 Workshop The SmartGeometry Workshop is a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice as well as many of the brightest students. The workshop is open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.
Clusters provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, processes and techniques and act as a catalyst for design resolution. The Workshop is made up of ten Clusters that respond in diverse ways to the sg2012 Challenge Material Intensities. Workshop applicants should apply to specific clusters. The workshop applications closes 15. January 2011 More information on the workshop and application on http://smartgeometry.org
Speakers: Workshop reports on:
An overview of the video can be found on Vimeo The second DigitalCrafting symposium was moved to the larger Auditorium 2 of the School. This is as we received allready a higher amount of reservations requests than expected and we want to keep the symposium free and open to all interested! So please come and inform your communities about the event. New Venue: Auditorium 2- Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation The DigitalCrafting research network invites everybody to take part at the second DigitalCrafting Symposium on the 25.November 2011 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen:
Date: Friday 25.11.2011 – 10.30h-17.30h Venue: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation Auditorium 2- Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation Context:Today digital technologies inform all levels of building practice. As a link between representation, design, analysis and production, digital technologies are both practical tools by which to optimise existing practice as well as speculative media by which to explore its future. By facilitating exchange and feedback between the different knowledge fields of design, engineering and crafts, digital technology holds the potential to effect new answers to the complex challenges of contemporary building practice. The second Digital Crafting symposium will discuss the future perspectives for a new integrated digital practice. Inviting practitioners from the fields of architecture, engineering and theory to share their experiences and present recent work, the symposium aims to unfold new visions for thinking the links between design, analysis and fabrication. With a focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, bottom up thinking and complex modelling we ask how the shared digital platform can create new material strategies for design. Digital Crafting is hosted by CITA Centre for IT and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation. The DigitalCrafting symposium addresses practitioners, researchers and students from the fields of architecture, engineering and construction. The symposium is free and open to the public. Due to demand and to support organisation we ask you email your participation: martin.tamke@karch.dk Program:10:15 Registration and coffee 10:45 Welcome and introduction Martin Tamke 11.00h Session 1: Consequences for making chair: Phil Ayres (CITA) Antoine Picon – Harvard Graduate School of Design / Cambridge Fabio Gramazio – ETH / Gramazio Kohler architects / Zuerich 14.00h Session 2: Consequences for material practice chair: Christoph Schindler (schindlersalmeron) Jan Knippers – Uni Stuttgart / Knippers Helbig Engineers / Stuttgart – New York Marta Malé-Alemany – IAAC Barcelona / AA London 16.00h Session 3: Consequences for design practice chair: Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (CITA) Paul Ehret – Gehry Technologies / Paris Reinhard Kropf – Helen Hard Architects / Stavanger / Norway 17.30 End of Symposium map Vis Digital Crafting Symposium 2 – Auditorium on a bigger map download DigitalCrafting Symposium 2 – Poster 340×900mm (pdf 4mb) DigitalCrafting Symposium 2 – Text and Media Package (zip file 8mb) The presentations of the 5th Digital Crafting Seminar are now online. Please follow the link to the presentations: Presenters: Joy Boutrup: Scales of Performance: fibres, yarns and textiles Ongoing Work Presentations: Guenther H. Filz An overview can be found on Vimeo Workshop: How to Brace Research question Dates: 24.th August 2010 11.00 – 16.30 Presenters: Joy Boutrup: Scales of Performance: fibres, yarns and textiles Ongoing Work Presentations: Guenther H. Filz The seminar examines the use of fibre based materials in architecture. During the last decade textiles and fibre-based materials have undergone dramatic development resulting in their use and implementation in host of new contexts. From the extreme scales of geo-textiles to the minute details of bio-textiles, textiles are entering new [...] What can you do with 5sqm wood? After the success of the first one the second laserworks competition in Copenhagen offers another chance to work directly with material and lasercutter. Selected participants get free access to material and machine and have to finished their creations by the beginning of June. The competition is organized by keps in Copenhagen Vesterbro – a place that offers as well machining and workshopspace for freelancer and small offices in architetcure and design. The competition is officially closed for application – late entries are yet welcome. more infos here Date: 12.03.11 – 10.04.11 Opening: 11.03.11 – 16h The exhibition 1:1 – research by design shows results from research at the Institute for Design and Communication and the Center for Information Technology and Architecture, CITA, at the School of Architecture. Through research by design concordance is sought between the methods of research and a form-giving, experimental design practice. Through drawings, models and experiments in 1:1 (full scale), the exhibition shows how digital media and new materials which are on [...] |
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The SmartGeometry workshop and Conference 2012 is going to take place in upstate New York at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, in upstate New York from 19-24 March 2012. The 2012 conference is especially looking at the relation between material and digital design and how computational techniques redefine this.
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