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August 2011: Chania

Friday, September 2, 2011 § 0

I just return from an intensive 10-days-stay at Chania, where first the Sens[e-Res]ponsive Architecture workshop and then the "Rethinking the Human in Technology-Driven Architecture" conference took place. The results of both were really satisfying. The 3 student teams of the workshop worked intensively for seven days and produced some great ideas and 3 interactive installation (currently on exhibition in the Mediterranean Center of Architecture). I have to thank everyone involved in the workshop, and especially Kostis Oungrinis, Marianthi Liapi and Socratis Yiannoudes for being amazing hosts, and Maria Voyatzaki for the invitation and all the help. Hopefully the students will start uploading their projects on the workshops' blog soon, but here are some random photos:

 
The conference on the other hand had some great presentations and a lot of interesting ideas. Manuel DeLanda's presentation/performance was an ideal closing! My presentation was in the morning session of the second day, under the title "Network Protocols / Architectural Protocols. Encoded Design Processes in the Age of Control" The full schedule of the conference is here.

Sens[e-Res]ponsive Architecture Workshop

Friday, May 27, 2011 § 0

This August I will be part of the Sens[e-Res]ponsive Architecture Workshop. The workshop will take place during 22-29.08.2011 at the Department of Architecture at the Technical University of Crete in Chania, Greece.

The overall discourse of the workshop revolves around the contextual and material frameworks of mediums, tools and techniques to create sensponsive environments that extend from useful to collaborative, developing a "sense" of their own. This year’s theme involves the design of an intriguing space for children with responsive partitions, utilizing rhino3D grasshopper with firefly and arduino. A detailed description of the theme can be found here.

The workshop will be taught by an interdisciplinary team of designers and theorists from Harvard, MIT, TU Delft, University of East London (UEL), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) and the Technical University of Crete (TUC). More information can be found here.

The Sens[e-Res]ponsive Architecture Workshop is now open to applications. Anyone interested in participating can fill-in an application form and submit the necessary material here.

Algorithmic Body & Urban Performance @ Model

Friday, October 8, 2010 § 0

Algorithmic Body and Urban Performance are featured on the latest damdi special Issue publication, "Architectural Models Lead to Design" that is focusing on physical modeling and its relation to the design process. Here is a link to the book webpage.

algorithmic body:


urban_performance:

The Bankruptcy of Architecture

Monday, August 30, 2010 § 0


The 2010 KAM workshop at Chania focused this year on the concept of Bankruptcy, literary or metaphorically, and included several interesting lectures along with the 9 projects that were developed by the students. A lot of material on:
Flickr
Blogger and
Twitter
many thanks to Stavros Vergopoulos and Aristide Antonas for the invitation.

KAM Workshops 2010: The Bankruptcy of Architecture

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 § 0

This August I will be part of the 2010 KAM workshop entitled "The Bankruptcy of Architecture", which will take place from August 18th to August 27th, at Chania, Greece. Applications are still open (you can find the application form here) More information at http://www.kamworkshops.com/

Urban_Performance @ DesignNet

Wednesday, June 30, 2010 § 0

The results of the Urban_Performance workshop have been published on the July issue of the Korean design magazine designnet, v.154. More for the workshop here.

Urban Performance Exhibition

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 § 5





more @ Urban_Performance

Urban Performance @ Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art

Tuesday, June 8, 2010 § 0

The results of the Urban_Performance workshop will be presented at the Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art from June 8th to June 13th. The opening of the exhibition is on Tuesday, June 8th, at 20:00

Urban Performance Workshop.

Monday, May 24, 2010 § 0


Urban Performance is a workshop taking place until May 25th at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Aim of the workshop is to explore how parameters concerning site conditions can guide the design process, while exploring at the same time the possibilities arrising from the use of industrially produced recycled materials. Here is the website of the workshop.
Visiting Professors for the workshop are Heather Woofter and Sung Ho Kim of Axi:Ome llc.

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