Parametric Approaches III: Digital Crafting
An international symposium on the development of digital architecture for students and professionals. Organised by CITA Centre for Information Technology and Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture.

Speakers:

Roland Snooks - kokkugia.com, New York, London
Harald Kloft - Office for Structural Design, Frankfurt
Michael Silver - Cornell University, New York
Christoph Schindler - schindlersalmeron.com/co-founder of designtoproduction, Zürich

Contemporary building practice is increasingly computer controlled allowing for a new production more efficient techniques but also of increasing complexity and variance. CITA invites researchers and practitioners to discuss how computational systems in the design and manufacture of architecture introduce a new nearness to craft, material and making in architecture. The symposium asks: how can we use these technologies to develop a new adaptable architecture production, how do they affect the way we think about material specification and how do they challenge design? CITA presents an international symposium with speakers from the fields of architecture, computation, engineering and craft discussing individual approaches to digital design, craft and material showcasing work-in-progress research studies and built projects.

Program:

13.00 Intro and framing of Digital Crafting as research topic – Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
13.25 Roland Snooks (kokkugia.com – New York / London)
14.10 Harald Kloft (Office for Structural Design – Frankfurt)

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Michael Silver (Cornell University, New York)
16.15 Christoph Schindler (www.schindlersalmeron.com / founder of Design to Production)
17.00 Discussion
17.45 End of Seminar

Date 13. March 2009
Venue:  The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Philip de Langes Alleé 10, Copenhagen, Auditorium 2

Invitation card for download (160kB)
Poster for download (450kB)

Contact:
cita@karch.dk