SG 2011 Workshop

 

The 2011 smart geometry Workshop is a response to the challenge ‘Building the Invisible’. Sg2011 explores how the incorporation of real world data into challenges existing design thinking. The sg2011 workshop’s aim is to create physical prototypes of design systems to be exhibited in the sg2011 exhibition.

 

The sg workshop is a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice as well as many of the brightest students. The workshop is open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.

 

The event came in two parts; a Workshop (28th-31st March) and a public conference beginning with talk shop and Workshop Exhibition (1 April), and a public Symposium and Reception (2 April). This event follows the format of the highly successful preceding event sg2010 Barcelona.

 

The annual workshop is organized around Clusters. Clusters are hubs of expertise comprising of people, knowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for workshop participants working together, within a common framework. Clusters provide a forum for exchange of ideas, processes, and techniques and act as a catalyst for design resolution.

The workshop is made up of ten clusters that respond in diverse ways to the challenge of incorporating real world data into digital design.

 

 

Emdal Colorknit participated within the Cluster:

 

PERFORMING SKINS

 

This cluster will investigate the fabrication of three-dimensional knitted surfaces that provide an intelligent skin, are per formative structurally, and are behaviorally responsive. 3D complex design strategies will be developed that allow for the creation of responsive fabric skin constructions. By combining advances in intelligent textiles with parametric modeling we will devise bespoke interfaces that link between standard architectural design software environments, CNC knitting machine (Stoll) and simple computational steering (Arduino).

 

The cluster uses parametric design tools to generate material fabrication code directly from digital design models, built in response to input data. Introducing conductive fibers and simple actuation, the produced materials will ask participants to model textile surfaces physically and computationally at a level that takes into account both the performance of the surface as a whole through its pattern, texture, materiality, flexibility, breathability, warmth and electronic interface. The cluster works as the interstices of architecture, fabric technology, passive and active responsive systems.

 

Cluster champions where:  Mette Ramsgard Thomsen (Head of CITA) and Ayelet Karmon

More about CITA….

 

This cluster will investigate the fabrication of three-dimensional knitted surfaces that provide an intelligent skin, are performative structurally, and are behaviourally responsive. 3D complex design strategies will be developed that allow for the creation of responsive fabric skin constructions. By combining advances in intelligent textiles with parametric modelling we will devise bespoke interfaces that link between standard architectural design software environments, CNC knitting machine (Stoll) and simple computational steering (Arduino).

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