Self-Actuated Textiles

I have been quite silent about my on-going research on self-actuated textiles as I am still in the writting up process of my thesis.  However I will have the pleasure to present part of this research at the occasion of two exciting events which I would like to share with you:

• 3rd of May - DIGITAL PLAY, Technical University Munich

an evening discussion on adaptive architectures and digital sensuality organised by Nadin Heinich from 'we are plan a' for the launch of  her book Digitial Utopia where I will present my work together with Fabian Hemmert, design researcher at the Design Research Lab and Troika.The evening is dedicated to young architects and design researchers who face digital technologies in a playful manner. They develop adaptive architectures, installations and multi-sensory objects which render virtual information physical perceptible or transform them in a spatial experience. Thereby they create a digital sensuality which extends beyond the mere simulation of our analogue world.

Further details: http://www.we-are-plan-a.com/lang/de/2012/04/digital-playdigital-play/.

• 10th of May - TEXTILES FUTURS, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille

I will discuss textile futures' materiality as part of the seminar series 'Matérialité' organised by LACTH, the Conception, Territory & History research lab of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage of Lille.The presentation entitled 'Textiles futurs: Imaginer, matérialiser un nouveau paysage architectural' will showcase TFRC's research related to textile architecture & sustainable design including Carole Collet, Marin Sawa, Jane Scott's research as well as my own practice. This lecture will be in French.

For further details: www.lille.archi.fr/

Puff & Flock has been invited to talk a at Ecobuild this year, so if you want to know more about textiles underpinned with ecological values, come to see Elisabeth and Aurélie on the 3rd of march:

13.20 – 13.40 Eco chic – green fabrics and textiles don't have to be dowdy

The session will be hosted by Olivier Heath, gathering among other Annabelle Filer from SCIN and furniture designer Benjamin Hubert. Discover the full programme here.

Venue
Ecobuild, Earls Court, London
Thames Room

Digital Architecture Event at Bartlett

As part of the Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture Series there will be a FREE Digital Architecture Event this coming Wednesday.

Date:Wednesday 9th December, 2009 from 6.30 PM (GMT)
Open to public, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Organiser of Digital Architecture London Conference, Ruairi Glynn has brought together some of London's most prolific recent graduates in a group presentation of innovative and inspiring projects examining the scope of 'digitally enabled' architecture. Presenters include this years' President's Silver Medal Winner, Nicholas Szczepaniak, the Bartlett's Christian Kerrigan and Ric Lipson, AA's Adam Nathaniel Furman, AA DRL's 'Shampoo' Group and RCA's Jordan Hodgson.

To place this in context: from the first generative algorithms of John Frazer, to Cedric Price and Gordon Pask's proposed interactive buildings, to the technologically inspired hinterlands of Archigram's walking, reconfigurable, and instant cities, London has long been a provocateur of digitally enabled architecture.

This spirit of speculation and provocation continues in a young generation of designers who slip with ease between computational algorithms and hand drawings, paper models and robotic manufacturing. In November 2009 Ruairi Glynn and Sara Shafiei co-authored and published 'Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands' which went further than the exhibition, revealing the processes behind leading graduate work alongside interviews with young practices including Amanda Levete Architects, Plasma Studio, JDS Architects, sixteen* (makers), and marcosandmarjan - discussing how the these innovative explorations have begun to make their mark on the built environment. Following the lecture, there will be a book launch of 'Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands' at the Bartlett. It can also be previewed online at

www.passagesthroughhinterlands.com

Puff & Flock at Future Textiles, Copenhagen

I have been kindly invited by the Centre for Textile Research, Copenhagen to present my work during a research day dedicated to Future Textiles, where I will be presenting alongside with designers and researchers such as Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Linda Worbin or Vibeke Riisberg and many others. Please have a look on the program which sounds really exciting !

If you wish to join us, the event will be hold at:
Multi salen, Københavns Universitet, bygn. 21, lok. 21.0.54,
Karen Blixens Vej 1, 2300 København S and you can already book tickets at this address: mebr@hum.ku.dk, entrance fees is of 100dkk.

Textile, Ornament, Light & Interior Space Seminar

Design: Reiko Sudo. Entrance lobby. Photo by Tadashi Okouchi.

The background for this seminar is to present the current status of the post doc. research project: Adjusting Daylight and Solar Heating in Office Buil
dings - intiated in 2007 by Joy Boutrup and Vibeke Riisberg.

The aim of the seminar is to give a broader perspective on Textiles, Ornament, Light and Interior Space – embracing both academic and practice based ways of obtaining knowledge. To elucidate these topics, we have invited four speakers to share their insight with us.

As keynote speakers we are honoured to present Reiko Sudo, Textile Designer and Director of the Japanese company NUNO and Ellen Dissanayake, Affiliate Professor, School of Music University of Washington. Further more we have invited Mette Ramsgaard, Associate Professor, Ph.D - The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture in Copenhagen and Delia Dumitrescu Ph.D student University of Borås, Sweden.

As paticipants we invite designers, architects, crafts people, academic researchers, teachers and students from design and architect schools, the textile industry and all others with an interest in the subject. The seminar will be in english.

Time and place
Monday 23rd of March, 10am - 4pm.

At the Grand Auditorium of KUCAagade 276000 Kolding - just opposite Kolding School of Design.

The seminar has been funded by the Danish Centre for Design Research, The Danish Ministry of Culture's Research Foundation and Kolding School of Design.

Source Kolding Design School

Parametric Approaches III: Digital Crafting Symposium

An international symposium on the development of digital architecture for students and professionals. Organised by Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture. Contemporary building practice is increasingly computer controlled allowing for a new production more efficient techniques but also of increasing complexity and variance.

This symposium invites researchers and practitioners to discuss how computational systems in the design and manufacture of architecture introduce a new nearness to craft, material and making in architecture. The symposium asks: how can we use these technologies to develop a new adaptable architecture production, how do they affect the way we think about material specification and how do they challenge design?

CITA presents an afternoon of speakers from the fields of architecture, computation, engineering and craft discussing individual approaches to digital design, craft and material showcasing work-in-progress research studies and built projects.

Date: 13.03.2009

Venue: Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Auditorium 2Philip de Langes Allé 10 1435 Copenhagen K Denmark

Context

The Centre for IT and Architecture (CITA) at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture exploring the emergent intersections between architecture and digital technologies. Identifying core research questions into how space and technology can be probed, CITA seeks to investigate how the current forming of a digital culture impacts on architectural thinking and practice. CITA examines how architecture is influenced by new digital design and production tools as well as the digital practices that are informing our societies culturally, socially and technologically. CITA is a cross disciplinary research environments consolidating new collaborations with partners from the fields of computer science, engineering, human computer interaction, robotics, artificial intelligence as well as the practice based fields of furniture design, fashion and textiles, industrial design, film, dance and interactive arts.

More Information can be obtained from CITA or directly here

Everybody is welcome

Fabrics in a context of emotional values

Invitation:Fabrics in a context and emotional values

- A Danish industrial PhD project related to textile design practice

Anne Louise Bang is completing a period as an Associate Research Student at CSM. She is in the middle of an ‘industrial PhD’ at Kolding, Denmark, studying the relationship between human emotions and textile design. The international textile company Gabriel is sponsoring the research and providing unique access to personnel and information. She is also a well known textile designer in Scandinavia and will be discussing both her research and the Danish model of ‘industrial PhDs’.

11th February 2009, 5.30pm - 6.45pm

So welcome @ room 304, The Bridge, Southampton Row, Central Sct MArtins College of Art and Design.

Material Computation, Computational material

Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, head of CITA, Centre for IT and Architecture, Copenhagen will address this topic, presenting her last works during a lecture at the Bartlett, London.

Slow Furl by Mette Ramsgard and Karin Bech, CITA

"Mette Ramsgard Thomsen is an architect working with interactive technologies. Her research centres on the design of spaces that are defined by physical as well as digital dimensions. Through a focus on intelligent programming and ideas of emergence she explores how computational logics can lead to new spatial concepts. Mette’s work is practice lead and through projects such as Slow Furl, Strange Metabolisms, Vivisection and Sea Unsea she investigates the design and realisation of a behavioural space. "

So, let's meet on the 4th of february, 6.30pm at the Bartlett to discover her astonishing work focusing on generative design, digital crafting and responsive environments.

More details here