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http://www.digitalinteractiondesign.polimi.it/architecture-in-the-age-of-design-to-robotic-production-and-operation/

https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/index.php/spool/issue/view/715

The quest for saving the biosphere of Earth from accumulative and accelerating human impact in the so-called age of the Anthropocene brings with it significant efforts in research across many disciplines to meet complex and dynamic challenges. One key aspect in this quest is the advancement of the notion of ‘environment’ in terms of what is meant by it and how to support it accordingly. For architects, urban designers and landscape architects the question arises whether architecture could be in the service of the bio-physical environment.

This symposium collects together various disciplines, knowledge fields, approaches, expertise and methods that together can contribute to this effort. This includes human and environment relations, biology and ecology, urban metabolism, industrial ecology, architecture and environment interactions, the role of data, surveying and sensing, as well as technological advances that enable human-designed adaptive environments.

Second in a series of symposia that are organized in collaboration between the Technical University in Vienna and the Technical University in Munich, this event seeks to set the scene for advancing inter- and transdisciplinary efforts in rethinking the notion of environment and the role of constructions and their interaction with it.

https://ar.tuwien.ac.at/en/News-Events/Events/AE-Architecture-Environment-Symposium-2019-New-Environments

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12-14 March 2019 Variable Stiffness chaise longue designed and developed at TU Delft by Henriëtte Bier and Arwin Hidding in collaboration with TUE, EPFL, and 3D-Robotprinting is exhibited at Material District, Ahoy Rotterdam (https://rotterdam.materialdistrict.nl).

Presented by Living Architecture Systems Group in association with Ontario College of Art and Design University and University of Waterloo

The Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG) is celebrating the halfway mark of its multi-year SSHRC Partnership Grant with the March 2019 Symposium at OCAD University (OCAD U) in the heart of downtown Toronto. Approximately 60 LASG researchers from Canada, USA and Europe will gather with friends, collaborators, and students to share their works in progress.

LASG Symposium 2019 Schedule

http://livingarchitecturesystems.com/symposium-2019/

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Variable Stiffness

http://www.weichuang3d.com/gamia/update_finalist?l=en

http://www.roboticbuilding.eu/project/variable-stiffness/

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2018/tu-delft/robotic-3d-printed-chaise-longue-changes-into-a-bed/

New projects by the Living Architecture Systems Group will be presented, providing detailed illustrations of prototypes and offering design methods that could be applied to contemporary design. These ‘living labs’ harness emerging technologies into a responsive, breathing, sentient architecture by combining detailed artificial fabric systems from fashion and heavy structures from architecture. Newly invented structural systems combine mechanics, sound, light, and filtering systems using artificial intelligence and synthetic biology. The work evolves through collaborative exchanges with an international network of scientists, engineers, and artists including Atelier van Herpen and Salvador Breed of 4DSOUND in Amsterdam, University of Waterloo researchers, engineer lead Rob Gorbet, and the main Living Architecture Systems studio in Toronto.