Digital Material

A full-scale exhibition and seminar by CITA.

On the 23rd of April 2010 the exhibition digital.material by CITA opened at the Art and Architecture gallery ROM in Oslo.

The exhibition digital.material featured four large installations both inside and outside of the gallery. The exhibition reflects how digital design methods can transform the use of traditional materials. The four projects develop individual interfaces between design and production. Digital media is often seen as a way to make the world more abstract. However in design and production digital tools create a new closeness to the material. By integrating the material properties of flexibility, elasticity and strength the projects explore how digital design methods can lead to new spatial and architectural solutions.

CITA actively uses the exhibition as a means of communication in the process of investigation, where the work is presented in full scale (1:1). The work is the result of collaboration with partners from fields as wide ranging as robotics, engineering, artificial intelligence, film, dance and fine art.

The four exhibited works
DevA
Thaw
Persistant Model #1
Lamella Flock

The digital.material - seminar
Monday, April 26th, 2010

Digital media is often seen as a way to abstract the world. But in design and fabrication digital tools allow for a new closeness between design and making. As manufacturing becomes increasingly computer controlled and as better and more solid interfaces between the design space and fabrication mature, a more integrated working practice arises. To enter into this practice, and to make use of its knowledge sharing and its ability to create new more sustainable building practice that lie outside the mass produced and the standardised, it is necessary to integrate this new practice into architectural thinking, designing and making.

digital.material explores a new material nearness into our practice. Through this seminar we ask: how do we engage with this material sense, how can better crafts knowledge challenge our design paradigms and what happens when the architect become tool builder defining individualised design tools for non standardised making.

Program
17.30 Welcome and introduction Henrik der Minassian and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
17:45 Martin Tamke
18:00 Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
18:15 Phil Ayres
18:30 Michael Hensel
19:00 Toni Österlund
19:30 Discussion

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