Workshop-seminar 2 - Deliverable 2.2 (The Innochain Journal #3)
Creators: name: Karlsson, Ulrika
name: Sitnikov, Vasily
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Journal , Deliverable, midtterm review

description: The deliverable will report on progress and outcomes of workshop-seminar 2. The workshop-seminar is a three part event with the scientific foci:<br> 2.1) Communication design: Identifying methods for interdisciplinary collaboration. <br> 2.2) Simulating design: Introducing virtual prototyping strategies and for new material practice.<br> 2.3) Materialising design: Introducing novel materials for robotically steered fabrication. <strong>Innochain Network Journal #3</strong> Welcome to Innochain Network Journal #3 assembled and<br> edited by KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. Since Network<br> Journal#2 that covered the 1st year Colloquium, Innochain has<br> organized the Midterm Review events hosted by IAAC in Barcelona<br> at the research centre and Self Sufficient Labs in Valdaura coupled<br> with three parallel workshop-seminars, Workshop-seminar 2.1:<br> Design Communication in Shared Virtual Space led by Damjan<br> Minovski, Workshop-seminar 2.2: Simulation Fundamentals:<br> The Lattice led by Pablo Miranda and Workshop-seminar 2.3:<br> Materialising Design - Extending the Vocabulary of 3D Printing led<br> by Alexandre Dubor and Raimund Krenmüller.<br> As Innochain now moved into the second half of its programme,<br> we see how the ESRs are advancing their research, repositioning<br> themselves in relation to the current use of digital design in building<br> culture, investigating more integrative approaches to early stage<br> design and enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration.<br> The Midterm Review provided an important opportunity for the<br> Innochain network to focus the efforts of ESRs, Academic and<br> Industry Partners. The Workshop-seminars that were organized<br> right after the Midterm Review at IAAC, supported the ESRs in<br> formulating perspectives on their own research in dialogue with<br> workshop leaders and colleagues.<br> We can now see how each ESR research promises concrete<br> contributions to the field, and how they are right now furthering<br> their collaborations with industry partners. We can see this,<br> for example, in the development of demonstrators such as the<br> FlectoFold large scale demonstrator, an elastic-kinetic materialgradient<br> facade component system designed by Saman Saffarian<br> (ESR12); Tom Svilans (ESR02) and industry partner Blumer<br> Lehmann have developed techniques to integrate scanning and<br> feedback technologies into glulam production and with White<br> arkitekter in Stockholm has looked at how his research can inform<br> emerging timber-based projects. Many of the ESRs are engaging<br> in reassessing workflow between different expertise and different<br> users, and exchange during the design process. Dimitrie Stefanescu<br> (ESR05) in his research and development of the Speckle platform,<br> challenges existing design communication standards such as BIM,<br> and intends to improve the communication flows throughout<br> the whole value chain. By developing different software tools to<br> help expert users to get a better overview over large amounts of<br> data, Paul Poinet (ESR06) is also looking at ways of improving this<br> workflow. Zeynep Aksoz (ESR04) in her research is developing a<br> design methodology that considers the possibility of engaging<br> multiple criteria, assessing design performance of multiple<br> variations at early design phase. She has recently been working with<br> physical design artefacts, learning from physical feedback during a<br> stay at IAAC where she conducted experiments with students on so<br> called ‘Zeer Pots’. Wood as a dynamically active material on an architectural scale is<br> being furthered in the research of Efilena Baseta (ESR07), where<br> she is currently developing a 1:1 scale robotically fabricated timber<br> <br> At KTH, Vasily Sitnikov (ESR09) has been developing simulations<br> of ice erosion in conversation with Pablo Miranda Carranza. In his<br> research project, ice is used for the production of CNC-milled ice<br> formwork for a sustainable fabrication of non-standard concrete<br> elements.<br> Many of the ESRs have produced papers and presented their<br> research at conferences during this early fall, for example at the<br> Design Modelling Symposium in Paris, eCAADe in Rome, IBPSA in<br> San Fransisco, at IASS in Hamburg and at ACADIA in Cambridge. As<br> the research projects by the ESRs have reached a level of maturity,<br> we have seen more demonstrators produced and disseminated<br> through conferences and exhibitions.<br> The Innochain network and programme has a focus on three main<br> fields; Communicating design, Simulation for design, Materialising<br> design. We are now seeing synergies between these fields where<br> both computation and material feedback are central to the<br> unfolding of the research. We are very proud to present the current<br> state of the research by each of the ESRs in Innochain Network<br> Journal #3.