Sustainable Futures Conference
April Tue-27 to Fri-30: SUSTAINABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE. This virtual event — cohosted by the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology at Rensselaer, The Future of Small Cities Institute, and the University at Albany — will take place April 27-30. The conference will explore questions surrounding the expansion of sustainability in all sectors of civic and […]
ISATMA 2018 @ CRAIVE Lab
Sunday May-20, 2-6pm @ CRAIVE: ISATMA 2018: Expanding the Improvising Community across Abilities, Bodies and Cultures. Participate! Experience! Create! The International Symposium on Assistive Technology for Music and Art (ISATMA) is devoted to new technologies and artistic concepts that provide artists across abilities access to creative tools for making multimedia works. It addresses adaptive interfaces […]
2012 Smart Geometry
March 19-24, 2012 @ EMPAC. Smart Geometry 2012: MATERIAL INTENSITIES. Host Directors: Demetrios Comodromos + Jefferson Ellinger. Imagine the design space of architecture was no longer at the scale of rooms, walls and atria, but that of cells, grains and vapour droplets. Rather than the flow of people, services, or construction schedules, the focus becomes the […]
2012 Smart Geometry
MARCH 12-24, 2012. The sg2012 challenge, Material Intensities, is intended to dissolve our notion of the built environment as inert constructions enclosing physically sealed spaces. Spaces and boundaries are abundant with vibration, fluctuating intensities, shifting gradients and flows. The materials that define them are in a continual state of becoming: a dance of energy and […]