ACADIA 2010 Workshops Presentations

ACADIA 2010 CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS AND ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION Moderated by Paul Seletsky and ACADIA 2010 Conference Chairs: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher and Shai Yeshayahu WHEN: Monday October 18th 2010, 5pm LOCATION: The Great Hall of The Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street, New York, NY 10028 FREE ADMISSION! ACADIA 2010 workshops will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze, assemble and represent information through computational systems that redefine the notions of responsive spaces and design performance. These notions are related to the possibilities and limitations offered by the increasing capabilities of digital interfaces, and the way the processing of information structures relationships between man, the computer and the environment. These series of presentations will be developed preliminary to the ACADIA 2010 Conference Life In:formation to be hosted at The School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in New York City on October 21-24th of 2010. The workshops will run from October 17th-20th of 2010. Many of these workshops will introduce abstract means to transfer information among multiple software, interfaces, plug-ins and applications but also present pedagogical strategies to work with diverse ideas of computation, its applications and the interfaces involved. ACADIA 2010 WORKSHOPS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: As an introduction to the themes of the workshops the following speakers will present ideas, strategies and techniques and will also open up problems in a round table discussion that will be available to the public. The different questions that these researchers have been working and that are framed by the questions that the Conference develops and that deal with the abstract question of the transferring of information among software and interfaces in different applications, processes and fabrication and their conceptual implications will be presented in this workshop conference. Matt Jezyk, Senior Manager, workshop keynote speaker, AUTODESK AEC Conceptual Design Products “Creating Smarter Models. Remember the “I” in BIM?” Visions of parametric design, informed sustainability, and frictionless transition of design to fabrication abound in the soon-enough future, but what step does the profession need to take to get there? The question is not “Should we BIM?” anymore. Instead, the far more relevant question is “How to create smarter models?”. What information already exists in our models? How can we leverage this information and what is it good for? What are the significant pressures, trends, and opportunities affecting our industry today? We see two main trends: Economic Pressures and Environmental Pressures. This talk will outline how to use the information to address these pressures and trends, and help designers understand the implications of their design decisions as early as possible. Rob Snyder, Product Designer, workshop keynote speaker, Bentley Scott Davidson + 3Dmodeling experts, workshop keynote speakers, RHINOCEROS James Kotronis, workshop keynote speaker, GEHRY TECHNOLOGIES Dan O'Sullivan, workshop keynote speaker, NYU ITP Program Peter Schubert, workshop speaker, RMJM James Brogan, workshop speaker, KPF Robert Yuri, workshop speaker, SOM Hans-Christoph Steiner, Pd, Arduino, and Firmata Developer This event is related to the ACADIA 2010 Preliminary workshops to the ACADIA 2010 Conference to be developed at the same location on October 21-24th of 2010.