Only 4 days left for Applications to the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshops The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop is organised around the challenge Building the Invisible - to explore how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The end result of the workshop is to create physical prototypes of these design systems which will also be shown in the SmartGeometry 2011 exhibition.
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 Only 4 days left to apply for SmartGeometry 2011 Workshops 
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Only 4 days left for Applications to the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshops
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop is organised around the challenge Building the Invisible - to explore how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The end result of the workshop is to create physical prototypes of these design systems which will also be shown in the SmartGeometry 2011 exhibition.
SmartGeometry workshops are a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of professional practice and academia, including designers, researchers, and leading students in the field. The workshop is open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.
Applications will close on Monday 31 January
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COPENHAGEN
The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshops will take place in Copenhagen at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture.
This years challenge reflects the workshop environment present at the school and the field of knowledge established at the schools Centre for IT and Architecture (CITA). The SmartGeometry 2011 workshops will have access to a wide array of fabrication equipment. The Royal Academy of Fine Arts owns a rich workshop environment that offers besides the usual digital machines access to high quality tools from metal, wood and plastic fabrication. The range of tools encourages a hybrid approach of traditional and digital crafting techniques. Sponsors will provide further equipment from the field of Rapid-Prototyping and digital fabrication as further specialized tools may be organized through contacts by the individual workshop organizers. http://cita.karch.dk/ |
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TIMELINE
Workshop Applications Close 31st January 2011 SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop 28 - 31 March 2011 SmartGeometry 2011 2-Day Conference 1 - 2 April 2011 Speakers and registration information for the 2-day conference will be posted on the website soon. www.SmartGeometry.org
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SmartGeometry 2011 Challenge:
BUILDING THE INVISIBLE
Informing Digital Design with Real World Data
THE PREMISE Vast streams of data offer a rich resource for designers. By incorporating external information into our design processes the autonomy of the design is challenged. User data, energy calculations, embedded sensing, material and structural simulation, human behaviour and perception, particle flows and force fields allows design to be situated and responsive. From the simulation of megacities to the solid modelling of material systems, design has the potential to be informed by the real. Design sits not separate from is environment but inhabits an ecological system, open, dynamic and interdependent, diverse, partially self-organising, adaptive, and fragile. Across scale and within time we now have the chance to instil architecture with an immanent intelligence creating new relationships between the user, the built and its ecosphere. THE OPPORTUNITY Systems theorists suggest that data is only a raw material. It can be differentiated from information, knowledge and wisdom. Understanding is multi-levelled: understanding of relations, understanding of patterns, understanding of principles. As digital designers our challenge is in harnessing the power of computation to assist us in informing our design process. Computers help us collect, manage and analyse the environment and inform us about an abundance of data. Our challenge is to use these inputs in a meaningful way to help us make better informed design decisions. THE AIM SG 2011 explores how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The SG 2011 workshop aim is to create physical prototypes of design systems to be exhibited in the SG2011 exhibition. More information...
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