Don’t forget to sign up for the Design Computation Symposium this year at Autodesk University 2014. Register for this session.

December 3, 2014 | 8:00 am – 12:00 pm
Mandalay Bay F, Level 2 | Mandalay Bay Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

We have an amazing lineup of speakers this year:

 

Session 1: 08:00 am – 09:30 am
08:00 am – 08:05 am	Introductions	Matt Jezyk
08:05 am – 08:15 am	Craftsmanship and Digital Fabrication, Pier 9	Carl Bass
08:15 am – 08:45 am	Hy-Fi	David Benjamin
08:45 am – 09:30 am	Keynote 1: Reshaping Urban Airspace	Janet Echelman
09:30 am – 10:00 am	Break
Session 2: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
10:00 am – 10:30 am	Designing a New Materialism	Andy Payne
10:30 am – 11:00 am	Unlocking Robotic Design	Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
11:00 am – 11:45 am	Keynote 2: Craft, digital fabrication, and digital assembly	Mark Burry
11:45 am – 12:00 pm	Closing Remarks, Q&A

 

Interested? Sign up here

 

More information on our great speakers:

David Benjamin is Founding Principal of The Living and Assistant Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. The Living brings new technologies to life in the built environment, integrating design innovation, sustainability, and the public realm. Clients include the City of New York, 3M, Airbus, and Miami Science Museum. Recent projects include the Princeton Architecture Laboratory (a new building for research on next-generation design and construction technologies), Pier 35 EcoPark (a 200-foot floating pier in the East River that changes color according to water quality), and Hy-Fi (a branching tower for the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 made of a new type of biodegradable brick). The Living was recently acquired by Autodesk.

 

Andrew Payne is an architect and Senior Building Information Specialist at Case-Inc. He recently completed his Doctoral degree at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design where his dissertation examined new personalized intelligent comfort control strategies for office spaces.  Andrew’s other research interests focus on embedded computation, parametric design, robotics, microcontrollers, and 3d printing.  He is the co-author (with Jason K. Johnson) and lead developer of Firefly – a software plugin which bridges the gap between the digital CAD environment of Rhino/Grasshopper (and soon to be Dynamo) with physical input/output devices like the Arduino, web cams, mobile phones, game controllers and more.  He has lectured and taught workshops throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe and has held teaching positions at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute.  He also sits on the Board of Directors for the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA).

 

Co-founded by Sigrid Brell-Cokcan and Johannes Braumann in 2010 the Association for Robots in Architecture has been pioneering the easy use of industrial robots for the creative industry. They are participating in international research and industry projects and have recently become KUKA System partners and a validated EU research institution under the FP7 program.

Sigrid Brell-Cokcan is a professional architect with her own successful architecture firm II Architects ^int in Istanbul and Vienna and is currently holding the first international professorship for “creative robotics” at the industrial design department of the University for Art and Industrial Design, Linz/ Austria.

 

 

 

American artist Janet Echelman builds soft, billowing sculpture at the scale of buildings that respond to the forces of nature – wind, water, and light. She combines ancient craft with custom Autodesk technology to create ultra-lightweight sculptures that move gently with the wind in ever-changing patterns. Her recent sculpture Skies Painted with Unnumbered Sparks, a 745-ft sculpture that premiered at the 2014 TED Conference, the largest pre-stressed rope structure in the world. She recently received the 2014 Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in Visual Arts, honoring “the greatest innovators in America today.”

 

 

Professor Mark Burry is a practising architect who has published internationally on two main themes: the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí, and putting theory into practice with regard to ‘challenging’ architecture. He has been Senior Architect to the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation since 1979 pioneering distant collaboration with his colleagues based on-site in Barcelona.  He is currently the Founding Director of the RMIT University’s Design Research Institute (DRI), established in 2008 to collaborate across the entire university design community ranging from hard-core sciences and technology to applied arts. In 2001 he founded RMIT University’s state-of-the-art Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory (SIAL) in Melbourne Australia, established as a holistic transdisciplinary spatial design research environment.