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Seminar 2

Date
01.05.2013

UMTS Seminar 2 -Digital Craftmanship
May 2013 
invited guests: Malcolm Mc Cullough, Tavs Jorgensen, Marta Male-Alemany.


Digital technology as 3D printing e.g. in ceramics allows to bridge from the digital design environment to fabrication. At the same time novel digital means can create new interfaces between the human, space and the material. Here advances in 3d motion capture technology and sensors allow capturing spatial hand gestures and body movement in real-time. This allow to reconsider the traditions of craftsmanship and to investigate how new processes can lead to new answers in the creative process of designing and making three dimensional objects.


By inviting speakers from different research areas, such as craftsmanship, digital manufacturing technologies and interaction design respectively, the seminar will discuss how this new relation can be explored through an experimental research practice and opens spaces for new expressions and allows rethinking of traditions in craft.

The seminar asks:
-how can an experimental research practice based on digital craftsmanship as method inform and point out new possibilities for design practice? How do we frame, start, utilize, communicate and evaluate the experiment?
-how can traditional craft knowledge based on skills and experience in making three dimensional objects be utilized through digital technologies?
-how can a digital design tool emerge that captures knowledge on material processing, - and thus make a close link between the designers creative process and the digital manufacturing based on the idea about crafting and execution as a unity that is intuitive and humanistic ?


Speakers

Malcolm McCullough

Malcolm McCullough explores digital media for the built environment. A scholar and not a practicing artist, he has brought human-centered philosophies of creative work to a variety of disciplines for over 20 years. He has given nearly 40 invited lectures in over a dozen countries. His books have been read and shared in academic, professional, and entrepreneurial contexts.


Since coming to Michigan in 2001, McCullough has focused on the design challenge of pervasive computing, that is, the spread of information beyond the desktop into ambient, physical, and sometimes invisible contexts. His 2004 book Digital Ground became a general readers’ standard and is used in many of the interaction design degree programs that have emerged in the last decade.

The discipline of interaction design – how people deal with technology, and how people deal with one another when mediated by technology – has grown far beyond its origins in the sciences of usability to become a prominent genre in aesthetic and critical work. McCullough’s contribution has been as a pioneering educator in this genre, which at Michigan has engaged students of art, architecture, urban planning, human-computer interaction, and information science.


McCullough was a pioneer in technology as a contributor and manager for the rise of AutoCAD in architecture in the 1980s. At the Harvard Design School, he helped lead what at the time was the first required curriculum in design computing at a leading architecture school. Digital Design Media (1991, second edition 1994), the textbook he co-developed with William Mitchell, won an international book award from the American Institute of Architecture, has been published in 4 languages and remains in print 18 years later. The Electronic Design Studio (1990, co-edited with Mitchell), a collection of papers on knowledge representation in design computing, also remains in print. His best-known book is Abstracting Craft (1996), a philosophical inquiry into work practices. Currently he is writing on the environmental history of information.

Malcolm McCullough - 2013 - UMTS Seminar 02 - What does it mean to make an experiment?
Marta Malé-Alemany

Marta Malé-Alemany has been the Acting Director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona, after co-directing its Master Program for 6 years, founding and leading the ‘Digital Tectonics’ Research Line, and creating IAAC’s first Digital Fabrication Lab. Marta Malé-Alemany has taught experimental design studios and research seminars in several Universities in the US (MIT, U.PENN, UCLA, SCI-ARC, and others) and has been a Course Master Tutor in the Design Research Laboratory (DRL) at the AA (Architectural Association) in London.

Marta Malé-Alemany graduated from ETSAV-UPC (Barcelona, 96), holds a Master Degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University (New York, 97) and is currently a PhD candidate at the ETSAB-UPC (Barcelona), investigating the potential of large-sale rapid manufacturing technologies to innovate building construction. Currently her teaching focuses on the development of innovative material & construction solutions, using customized robotic devices or hacking existing digital fabrication equipment (CNC mills, industrial robots or other).

In her professional practice, Marta Malé-Alemany utilizes her expertise on 4 levels: as an exhibition curator she has given shape to exhibitions about digital design & fabrication technologies related subjects, like the show ‘FULL PRINTED: 3D Printing Objects’ or ‘FABBOTS: Design & Fabrication with Customized Robotic Devices’, shown at the DHUB Design Museum in Barcelona and other venues.

As an international design juror, Marta Malé-Alemany has reviewed competitions like the HOLCIM Awards for Sustainable Construction, the Catalan Pavilion for the Venice Biennale, and a long list of Design Studio courses in European and American Schools of Architecture. Her work as an independent designer in her own architectural practice, has been recognized with the FEIDAD Digital Architecture Award, a NEOTEC Grant for technological entrepreneurship, and a wide range of publications that illustrate how her work explores the conceptual and material opportunities that emerge from testing novel digital methods for the production of architecture.

As a consultant she has collaborated with international practices like Morphosis (Los Angeles), SMAQ (Berlin), Ábalos & Herreros (Madrid), Torres & Lapeña (Barcelona), Guallart Architects (Barcelona) and others. In that position, she has facilitated the analysis of conceptual ideas, the development of associative and parametric design proposals, and the application of digital technologies for the materialization of non-standard objects, building components and architectural structures.

Marta Malé-Alemany - 2013 - UMTS Seminar 02 What does it mean to make an experiment?
Tavs Jorgensen

Tavs Jorgensen is a research fellow at the Autonomatic research group, Falmouth University, UK. He initially trained as craft potter in his native Denmark and later studied 3D Ceramic Design at Cardiff Institute, UK. He established his own design consultancy 1995 - working for some of the world’s leading tableware companies.

Tavs joined the Autonomatic research group in 2006. His research broadly concerns the question of how new models of creative practice can be developed on the basis of digital design and fabrication tools.
Currently he is involved in projects concerning digitally driven reconfigurable tooling, DIY CNC and 3D printed glass-casting moulds.

He still maintains an active creative practice and his work is featured in numerous international exhibitions.
He is a regular visiting lecturer on the Ceramic and Glass course at the Royal College of Art, London, and frequently guest lecturers at other leading universities and colleges.

Tavs Jørgensen - 2013 - UMTS Seminar 02 - What does it mean to make an experiment?
https://vimeo.com/72250007
Thomas Binder

Thomas Binder is associate Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, and holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies. He is part of the co-design research cluster engaging open design collaborations and participatory design in the context of design anthropology, interaction design and social innovation. His research includes contributions to methods and tools for experimental design research and open innovation processes with a particular emphasis on participation and learning.

He has been contributing to several books such as Social Thinking – Software practice (MIT press, 2002), (Re-) searching the Digital Bauhaus’ (Springer 2008), Rehearsing the Future (Danish Design School Press, 2010), Design Research through Practice (Morgan Kaufman, 2011) and Design Things (MIT press, 2011) and has been chairing the Participatory Design Conference in 2002 and the Nordic Design Research Conference in 2005.

Thomas Binder - 2013 - UMTS Seminar 02 What does it mean to make an experiment?
Flemming Tvede Hansen

Flemming Tvede Hansen holds a PhD in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, where he is currently working as a post-doctoral research fellow. Flemming is a graduate student from the Danish Design School 1995 specialized in ceramics and glass and subsequently trained in multimedia design 1999-2000 at The Multimedia Institute MMI at The School of Architecture in Copenhagen.

His interest is about the relationship between materiality and digital representation, and how experiential knowledge of crafts rooted in ceramics can be transformed and utilized in the use of digital technologies. His current research is about how the involvement of the body is being exploited in the use of digital technology. It can be hand gestures, body movement, or the voice, that forms the basis for an interaction with a digital responding system.

Flemming Tvede Hansen - 2013 - UMTS Seminar 02 What does it mean to make an experiment?

Agenda of the Day

9.30 Introduction to seminar, project and participants – Auditorium 90.2.20
Public lecture -  Malcolm McCullough, Ann Arbor
10.30 Public lecture -  Marta Malé-Alemany, Barcelona
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Public lecture -  Tavs Jorgensen, Falmouth
13.00 Lunch - KADK Canteen

14.00   Public lecture - Thomas Binder, Copenhagen - Auditorium 90.2.20
15.00 Public lecture - Flemming Tvede Hansen, Copenhagen
16.00 End of Seminar

17.00 Opening of exhibition “Textile Spaces”
Another Space
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