shop talk (noun):

1. conversation about a craft or occupation, particularly outside of working hours
2. specialized vocabulary concerning a particular craft or occupation

AGENDA

08:30 - 09:00 Registration

09:00 - 09:20 Welcome
Adam Davis SmartGeometry Group
Huw Roberts Bentley Systems

09:20 - 10:00 Make Sense: Learning How to Learn
Discussing the use of constraints and prototypes for experiments in art and design.
Eric Ellingsen Species of Space / Institut für Raumexperimente

10:00 - 10:40 Make a Difference: Educated Guesses
How do innovative prototypes affect design education? Can new ways of teaching be prototyped?
Rob Woodbury Simon Fraser University
     Panelists:
     Eric Ellingsen Species of Space / Institut für Raumexperimente
     Axel Kilian Princeton University
     Earl Mark University of Virginia

10:40 - 11:05 Coffee and Tea Break

11:05 - 11:45 Make Do: Programming Prototypes
Increasingly, designers are becoming digital toolmakers. How does this trend affect the prototypes they create and use?
Makai Smith Bentley Systems
     Panelists:
     Flora Salim RMIT
     Sean Ahlquist University of Stuttgart
     Sawako Kajima Adams Kara Taylor
     Przemek Jaworski Foster + Partners

11:45 - 12:25 Make it Add Up: Approaching Net Zero
How do mathematical models interact as prototypes and how are they tested?
Joy Ko RISD / Brown
     Panelists:
     Peter Liebsch ASTUDIO
     Judit Kimpian Aedas

12:25 - 13:55 Lunch Break

13:55 - 14:20 Research and Visions Update
Volker Mueller Bentley Systems

14:20 - 15:00 Makework: Manufacturing Procedures
Pioneers in digital manufacturing are prototyping new ways of making
Xavier de Kestelier Foster + Partners
     Panelists:
     Richard Buswell Loughborough University
     Bart Van der Schueren Materialize
     Enrico Dini Monolite
     Rupert Soar Free Form Engineering
     Tobias Bonwetsch ETH

15:00 - 15:40 Make Some Noise: Sounding Out Possibilities
Controlling the auditory environment through physical design artifacts.
Brady Peters Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
     Panelists:
     Martin Tamke CITA
     Xavier Serra Universitat Pompeu Fabra
     Ralph Bartschi ETH
     Jose Manuel Berneguer Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

15:40 - 16:05 Coffee and Tea Break

16:05 - 16:45 Make It or Break It: Structuring Prototypes
How do prototypes function within the engineering and the design of structures? Do design prototypes succeed through failure?
Jeroen Coenders Arup / TU Delft
     Panelists:
     Will Laufs Thornton Tomassetti
     Pavel Hladik Arup
     Sam Joyce Bath University / Buro Happold

16:45 - 17:25 Make it Snappy: Tectonic Prototypes
Innovations in assembly are changing design at all scales
Axel Kilian Princeton University

VENUE

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