The SmartGeometry Group is pleased to announce that the annual SG event will take place in Barcelona 19th – 24th March 2010. The event will be the key event in the year for discussing, learning and networking about the emerging practice of digital parametrics within the AEC community.

The event will come in three parts, a Workshop (19th-22th March), a public Shop Talk (23rd March), and a public Symposium and Reception (24th March). These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.

Workshop: ‘Working Prototypes’

Annually, the SG workshop attracts an impressive group of tutors and 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. Admission to the workshop is based on selection by the SmartGeometry Group.

The application deadline was extended to Jan. 24, 2010, and has now closed.

The 2010 SmartGeometry Workshop is organised around the challenge ‘Working prototypes’. Working prototypes are functioning prototypes developed for the purpose of proving and testing a concept and design. In 2010 the workshop will be held in the great industrial space at the IAAC in Barcelona. This allows possibilities for fabrication on even a 1:1 scale, of creating material stress, physical thinking and mental gymnastics. This puts the physical at centre stage in challenging participants to design, assemble and test working prototypes.

Detailed information about each Cluster can be found here

Information about training in GenerativeComponents can be found here

Conference Day One: shop talk (noun):

1. conversation about a craft or occupation, particularly outside of working hours
2. specialized vocabulary concerning a particular craft or occupation

The SmartGeometry workshop has for several years been followed by an Alumni Summit. This year, reflecting the theme "Working Prototypes", the Alumni Summit has become Shop Talk: a moment after intensive days of innovative work to reflect on what has been accomplished and where the discipline is headed. This event will feature informal discussions between leading practitioners and emerging talent in digital design, offering an inside perspective on how design prototypes are conceived, created, and tested. Shop Talk provides a rich context for the following day's Conference program, showing how the state of the art is forged in the studio.

Conference Day Two: Symposium

Day Two of the conference will feature leading researchers and practitioners in the field of computational design. Confirmed presenters include Adrian Bowyer (Senior lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath), Mark Burry (Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia), Enrico Dini (Chairman of D-shape), and Rupert Soar (Director of Freeform Engineering Ltd.).

Click here to Register for the 2-Day Conference (Shop Talk and Symposium)

Sponsors

The SG2010 Workshop + Conference would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors: