Lectures

Lecture DESIGN = PRODUCTION at KISD, Cologne

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Hans Sachs of responsive design talks, together with Sebastian Bächer of CNC Tischlerei Bächer GmbH, about the the potential merge of design and production with the upcoming and intensifying integration of digital tools in both processes.
The talk “design = production” takes place at the KISD on Tuesday April 1st 2014. Please see more details about this series of lectures on KISD news /calendar..

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KISD Open Factory

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Together with Marcel Odenbach, Hans Sachs from responsive design studio runs a workshop 2D>3D at the KISD Open Factory at the Köln International School of Design.

The 2-day event with various workshops and panel discussions on Nov 29th and 30th addresses the open scource and maker movement and brings people from different professional fields together to experiment, develop and fabricate. Students can still register for several workshops on the conference’s webpage (above).

Symposium Transmaterial Aesthetics in Berlin

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Hans Sachs of responsive design studio has presented his paper “bended – material and process informed design computation” at Transmaterial Aesthetics Symposium in Berlin at the Aedes Network Campus Berlin, on October 2nd, 2013(see programm below). We especially thank Prof. Matthias Ludwig (Hochschule Wismar, Fakultät Gestaltung) and AA Dipl. Sandra Loschke (Faculty of Design Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney) for the organisation of the event. The symposium abstracts can be downloaded here.

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ALIVE2013 Pictures and Videos

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Pictures and Videos of the ALIVE2013 – international symposium on adaptive architecture are now online.
ALIVE2013 was hosted at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zürich on July, 8th 2013.

Speakers included:Prof. Ludger Hovestadt (ETH Zürich, CH), Prof. Philip Beesley (University of Waterloo, CA), Prof. Kas Oosterhuis (TU Delft, NL), Martina Decker (DeckerYeadon, US), Claudia Pasquero (ecoLogicStudio, UK), Manuel Kretzer (ETH Zürich, CH), Tomasz Jaskiewicz (TU Delft, NL), Jason Bruges (Jason Bruges Studio, UK), Areti Markopoulou (IAAC, ES), Ruairi Glynn (UCL, UK), Simon Schleicher (Universität Stuttgart, DE), John Sarik (Columbia University, US), Stefan Dulman (Hive Systems, NL)

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Molecular Utopia

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Manuel Kretzer spoke about his research into “Smart Materials” at the Chair for CAAD, ETH Zürich to the 2011/12 MAS class as an introduction to their current module M6.

Inspiring Matter Conference

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Manuel Kretzer is invited to present his research at the Inspiring Matter Conference in London on Monday, 02.04.2012 at 14:20.
The event is hosted at the Royal College of Art and will feature plenary talks by Sir Richard Friend, FRS, Cavendish Professor at the University of Cambridge; Anna Valtonen – Rector at the Umea Design Institute and former head of Design Research & Foresight at Nokia; Mike Davies, CBE – architect at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners; and Susanne Kuechler – anthropologist and Professor of Material Culture at UCL.
More detailed programme here: http://inspiringmatter.org/programme/