MATERIALECOLOGY: Neri Oxman: FABRICATE 2011

Thursday, July 22, 2010

FABRICATE 2011 - Call for Papers

FABRICATE - an international peer reviewed conference and publication - will assess the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes will include: digital craft, representation and realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts, automated fabrication, and associated theory. The conference will take place in the Building Center in London, 15-16 April 2011

Keynote presentations by Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Matthias Kohler and Neri Oxman.

http://www.fabricate2011.org/

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.