los angeles CALIFORNIA
UCLA’s Kivi Sotamaa and his Spring 2013 Technology Seminar students set out to focuses on design as a method for exploring new applications and business potentials of Additive Manufacturing Technologies, and nanoscopically structured fibrous cellulose.
digital fabrication, fabrication, kivi SOTAMAA, prototype, rapid prototyping, UCLA, UCLA A.UD
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vienna AUSTRIA
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Studio Hani RASHID
critics: Hani RASHID, Liam YOUNG, Kivi SOTAMAA, & Christoph MONSCHEIN
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Stephan RITZER, Maximin RIEDER, & Klemens SITZMANN: Within our project, we re-read certain urban typologies, from a two-dimensional to a three-dimensional state. Our ambition was to re-think on former type categorisations which were determined and defined for an urban layout, relying on the cartesian x-y-z axis.
architecture, Christoph MONSCHEIN, hani RASHID, kivi SOTAMAA, klemens SITZMANN, Liam YOUNG, Maximin RIEDER, Stephan RITZER, Studio Hani Rashid, typology, university of applied arts vienna
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los angeles CALIFORNIA
UCLA A.UD
Technology Seminar, Spring 2013
“ADD OPPORTUNITY: Additive Manufacturing & New Business Models”
critic: Kivi SOTAMAA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Nicholas SOLAKIAN, Derek BUELL, & Peter NGUYEN: International Aid organizations ship billions of dollars of aid and relief supplies to people in need around the world. One such organizations is Direct Relief International, based out of Santa Barbara, CA. Our research looks at the possible demand for 3-D printed, on-demand products in such disaster zones.
vienna AUSTRIA
EXCESSIVE focuses on strategies of architectural design. Many of the ambitions revolve around the topic of excess as a redefinition of beautiful lust and—misfit aesthetics of exuberance and sophisticated conditions of arousal. If design is typically derived from an expertise related to form and proportion, a theory of mutation is possibly an advanced critical stance toward formal traditions. A theory of excessive form is not a rejection of the formal traditions but an extension of them. Further, navigation through the topologies of excessive form can be understood as an intensification of more traditional formal strategies.
EXCESSIVE diplomas & semester finals w/ jurors Hernan Diaz ALONSO, Tom KOVAC, Kivi SOTAMAA, & Reiner ZETTL
Wednesday, 01/16
2.00 pm /
Urban Strategies Studio
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3
1030 Vienna
diploma, event, excessive, hernan diaz ALONSO, kivi SOTAMAA, NOTHINGeverHAPPENS, reiner ZETTL, Tom KOVAC, university of applied arts vienna, Urban Strategies
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helsinki FINLAND
The “Folding Fabrics” installation and furniture was created by Kivi and Tuuli Sotamaa of Sotamaa Design in collaboration with Marimekko’s in-house design team. Seasonal Marimekko fabrics were used to represent the contrasts of light during the Autumn season and the drama of nature. “Folding Fabrics” was a way of showing the full Marimekko pattern and respecting the tradition behind the original print. Each fold starts flat, and expands as a three dimensional functional object to become a table or stool in various sizes. It represents a new angle to seeing Marimekko’s patterns in another dimension.
folding, furniture, kivi SOTAMAA, SOTAMAA Design, tuuli SOTAMAA
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london UK
kivi SOTAMAA
Wednesday 16 March
6.30pm / Darwin Lecture Theatre
Bartlett School of Architecture
Gower Street
London UK WC1
architecture, Bartlett, kivi SOTAMAA, lecture
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san diego CALIFORNIA
lecture by kivi SOTAMAA
woodbury san diego
15 april - 6:30pm
architecture, kivi SOTAMAA, lecture, woodbury university
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