Live Parameters

23.08.2010 - 29.08.2010

Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

One of the key elements in any associative design model is the data to which it responds.  The Live Parameters workshop will investigate several modes for interacting with real time, real life data using a combination of existing data libraries and prefabricated sensory nodes.The workshop will use the 22@ Innovation District in Barcelona, Spain as a data source as well as a testbed for spatial configurations generated from the recorded data.

22@
The 22@ Barcelona project transforms two hundred hectares of industrial land of Poblenou into an innovative district offering modern spaces for the strategic concentration of intensive knowledge based activities. This initiative is also a project of urban refurbishment and a new model of city providing a response to the challenges posed by the knowledge based society.It is the most important project of urban transformation of Barcelona city of the last years and one of the most ambitious of Europe of these characteristics, with a high real state potential and a 180 million Euros public investment of infrastructure plan.

Participants will engage these topics through Grasshopper, a generative modeling tool for McNeel s Rhinoceros.  The workshop will work with the Fab Lab BCN for prototyping and fabrication.

Fab Lab BCN
Fab Lab Bcn is a research and production facility focused on the accumulation and application of knowledge related to creating just about anything.  Under the idea of from the personal computer (PC) to personal fabrication (PF) Fab Lab Bcn drives in conjunction with the Center for Bits and Atoms of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a global network of laboratories which have the capacity to make any idea a reality using shared equipment and technologies.

LaN Directors Monika Wittig and Luis Fraguada will direct the week long seminar on associative design and production.

IaaC:
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is a latest generation education and research centre dedicated to the development of an architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the world s capitals of architecture and urbanism, the IaaC is a platform for the exchange of knowledge with faculty and students from over 25 countries, including the USA, China. India, Poland, Italy, Mexico and Sudan. Students work simultaneously on multiple scales (city, building, manufacturing) and in different areas of expertise (ecology, energy, digital manufacturing, new technologies), pursuing their own lines of enquiry on the way to developing an integrated set of skills with which to act effectively in their home country or globally.

Registration Closes: August 1st

Registration:
http://www.livearchitecture.net/archives/6082

Price:
595 euros
Price does not include travel or accommodation.

All software necessary will be made available during the workshop.

Contact:
Please direct any questions to BCN3@livearchitecture.net