ROBO_CO(-O)Ps. Workshop AA London-ETSA Sevilla
Introduction into Digital Design and Fabrication for Emergent Collaborative Design Systems
Visiting Professor: Jeroen van Ameijde AA London
ETSA Professors: Manuel Gutierrez & J. Perezdelama
As technological breakthroughs have resulted in paradigm shifts in design practice in the past, the current revolution caused by innovations in digital design and fabrication technologies is radically transforming methods of architectural production today. Not only are increasingly sophisticated file-to-factory procedures used to enable the conception and construction of projects of unforeseen complexity, architects and researchers are starting to develop new computationally-based methods and strategies, using the specificities of digital fabrication technologies as an input for design.
This workshop will introduce participants to methods for creating fabrication-based, open-ended design systems and in particular their capacity to generate emergent structures through the collaborative and agent-based nature of their construction logics. The projects will experiment with algorithmic procedures and speculate on the possibilities of robotic construction, which will be enacted through the use of simple scripting, CNC and laser cutting and role play -not only as collaborative modes of production but also to incorporate social performative aspects into the structures directly.