The SmartGeometry 2010 Workshops at IaaC in Barcelona have begun!

Participants have just started developing their prototypes digitally, with some of the clusters rapidly moving into fabrication tests. The general sound level has been high with design conversations and noises coming from fabric cutters, robots, CNC machines, and laser cutters.

The Nonlinear Systems Biology and Design cluster completed its first batch of 3D prints (100's of nodes in a variety of shapes) and discussed the scale and location of their installation at IaaC. Manufacturing Parametric Acoustic Surfaces finished assembling their curving wall which will be used as a framework for the acoustic panels under development these next three days. Curved Folding spent the day on form and surface discovery with paper prototypes; these will be scanned, converted to digital models, and then back to sheet metal surfaces. Explicit Bricks fired up the robot for the first foam block studies, completing a number of initial prototypes.

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Fabrication equipment was running till 10:30pm - up until the additional generators had to be shut off - but work continued late into the evening.

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Slideshow of Day One

Kuka robot in action

23 March 2010

One day of informal discussions between leading practitioners and emerging talent in digital design, offering an inside perspective on how design prototypes are conceived, created, and tested. Shop Talk explores how the state of the art is forged in the studio.

Shop Talk discussions will be moderated by:
Eric Ellingsen Institut für Raumexperimente, Brady Peters CITA, Xavier de Kestelier Foster+Partners/Syracuse University, Joy Ko RISD/Brown, Jeroen Coenders Arup/TU Delft, Rob Woodbury Simon Fraser University, Axel Kilian Princeton University, Makai Smith Bentley Systems, Jenny Sabin/ Peter Lloyd Jones LabStudio/University of Pennsylvania.

24 March

Conference on Fabrication and Digital Manufacturing

Mark Burry RMIT
Enrico Dini Monolite D-Shape
Darren Davies Formula 1 car designers, Wirth Research
Rupert Soar Freeform Engineering Ltd.
Hanif Kara AKT
Adrian Bowyer University of Bath
Marta Malé-Alemany IaaC, AA
Jeroen Coenders Arup
Lars Hesselgren PLP Architecture

Reports and featured work from SG2010 Workshop Working Prototypes

Design Museum Barcelona (DHUB) will be exhibiting the prototypes produced during the SG2010 workshop ‘Working prototypes’ in May 2010. This will be part of a larger exhibition focused on fabrication and digital manufacturing curated by Marta Male-Alemany.