new york NEW YORK

MakerBot announces their new MakerBot Innovator Session and Lecture with Simplus Design co-owner Sebastian Misiurek for architects, designers, makers, and creative individuals and educators.

lecture: Sebastian MISIUREK (Simplus Design).
Thursday, 06/19
7.30 p.m. / MakerBot Store
298 Mulberry Street
New York, NY 10012

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brooklyn NEW YORK

Francis Bitonti Studio’s New Skins Workshop Series, led by Francis Bitonti, launched Summer 2013 in Brooklyn, New York. Exploring new computational design methods and techniques, New Skins Workshop continuously focuses on immersing students with the tools and software needed to design and fabricate complex geometry in computational fashion design. Summer 2014 workshops will be held in London and San Francisco.

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miami FLORIDA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

MONAD Studio (Eric GOLDEMBERG & Veronica ZALCBERG): Stuck Together Pieces explores conditions of rhythmicity and recursiveness as frictional tensions vested in a thick, pulsating topology at multiple scales.

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Iris van HERPEN presents “Biopiracy,” her ready-to-wear womenswear collection for F/W 2014-15.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

SCI-Arc
advisor: Peter TESTA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Salvador CORTEZ, Cheng LU, Avra TOMARA, & Nikita TROUFANOV: Anisotropic Formations project is a proto-architectural project that mixes robotics with vector-based 3-D printing.

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pittsburgh PENNSYLVANIA

Carnegie Mellon University, Computational Design

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Madeline GANNON (MADLAB.CC): Reverberating Across the Divide reconnects digital and physical contexts through a custom chronomorphologic modeling environment.

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london UNITED KINGDOM

AA Visting School Jordan 2013
director: Riyad JOUCKA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

AAVS Jordan 2013 (Riyad JOUCKA, director): AA Visiting School Jordan 2013 was an intensive research program dedicated to the mimicry of natural formations evident in desert ecologies.

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brooklyn NEW YORK

A 10-day workshop under the direction of Francis Bitonti, where students will learn the tools and theory of computational design processes as they relate to Fashion design.

workshop: “New Skins Winter 2014: Brumal Bodies” with Francis BITONTI
01/08-01/17/2014
4.00–8.00 p.m. / Metropolitan Exchange
33 Flatbush Avenue, 6th Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11217

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amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS

Iris van HERPEN presents “Wilderness Embodied,” her Haute Couture collection for F/W 2013–14.

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bologna & modena ITALY

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

DO THE MUTATION (Filippo NASSETTI & Alessandro ZOMPARELLI): COLLAGENE is a software written to create adaptive and customizable masks.

This project, developed by DO THE MUTATION, explores the border between physical and virtual, connecting computer code’s abstractions with the intimate, visceral dimension of body alteration brought by the mask theme. The topographic anatomy of the face acts as input for algorithms that generate the fibers that form the object, creating a material formation that after 3-D printing perfectly fits its territory, people’s faces.

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