PROJECTS

Craftsmanship in the Digital Age
Architecture and Digital Fabrication in the Human Context

#craftsmanship

An Enquiry Programme examining the potential of digital technologies to trigger innovative responses in the design and making of architecture

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS
Current technical developments worldwide related to producing basic commodities and items of daily use, lead to new policies for an increased use of prefabrication in architecture, industrial and urban design. Implementing these policies brings numerous consequences regarding production, design and use. Thus, digital tools will increasingly enable industries to produce on a mass scale and yet be versatile, flexible and able to create customised components. The programme examines, how against this background, interdisciplinary design and fabrication processes can hold a key for a new type of digital craftsmanship to trigger innovations for a sustainable, humanistic design.

What can new technological developments in the digital age do for us humans? What possibilities are embedded in these new technologies in regard to a healthy, sustainable environment to live in? Can a new digital craftsmanship even contribute to a just future education? And more specific: Who will be the stakeholders to deliver prefabrication based on new design processes? Will this be accomplished by the traditional industry/ building sector or a new disruptive industry or business model?

PROJECTS SO FAR
Designed for Humans: From Alvaro Siza’s Modernism into the Digital Future
International Symposium in Shanghai: 8 September 2019. Video Recording

Shape of the Future - Urbanism and Architecture in the Age of Industry 4.0
Exhibition Talk: 29 June 2018

Craftsmanship in the Digital Age with the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, NOWlab and Forschungsinitiative Zukunft Bau (BBSR)
Lab Talk Series: 2017. Video Recording, Publication

 

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