MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: Announcing UbiComp Workshop

Friday, April 20, 2007

Announcing UbiComp Workshop

MATERIALECOLOGY in collaboration with members of the Ambiance Intelligence Group at the Media Lab, MIT, will direct a workshop entitled: Transitive Materials: Towards an Integrated Approach to Material Technology. The workshop will be led by Marcelo Coelho, Sajid Sadi, Pattie Maes, Joanna Berzowska and Neri Oxman, and will take place in September 2007 in the framework of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007). The conference will take place in Innsbruck (Tyrol), Austria.
UbiComp 2007 website
Ambient Intelligence Group, Media Lab, MIT
XS Labs

materialecology

materialecology was formed in 2006 by Neri Oxman as an interdisciplinary research initiative that undertakes design research in the intersection between architecture, engineering, computation, and ecology. As such, this initiative is concerned with material organization and performance across all scales of design thought and practice. As such, it seeks to promote and define a design research agenda which is ecological in nature, in ideology and in material practice; it aims at embracing the evolving elements of change in both (and indeed related) social constructs and environmental descriptions of the ever changing built environment. materialecology undertakes research in advanced digital applications for architectural practice and pursuits their contribution to a design paradigm promoting generative design processes.