MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: Talk @ Contemporary Practice: Beyond the Crisis

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Talk @ Contemporary Practice: Beyond the Crisis

Contemporary Practice. Beyond the Crisis invites designers, clients, developers, and educators to discuss interdisciplinary challenges affecting the built environment. Three sessions on: political vision and the built environment (Leadership); specialisation, scale and region (Construction); process, fabrication, education (Design). Organised by Architectural Technologies Research, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH, in assocation with the Forum for Industrial Building Practices (FIND) and in collaboration with Stockholms Arktitektförening.

Time: Wed 2010-05-19 - Thu 2010-05-20

Location: KTH, Stockholm, Auditorium F2, Lindstedtsvägen 28

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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.