When men decided to abandon wilderness and its laws, they built the city, a place where they could live inside an environment they designed and follow the rules they decided to adopt. The urban space became the place where a new type of human interactions happened: those with the built environment. Over the millennia, the way men interact with cities has changed just a little, with changes fostered in many cases by technological advancements. Today we assist to the phenomena of ever-connected-citizens, capable of reaching all the information they want at any time. They are able to interact with the city, in the form of city services provided by the local governments or companies. It’s a “guided” interaction, it reflects a plan that will only lead to certain choices decided in advance with precise marketing or political planning.
What if the built environment was designed and made with the ability to use technology to interact with people? Is a building just a bunch of bricks, steel and glass? Or can a building be able to communicate with people? Deliver data about its internal temperature, humidity level, power consumption, ask for data from the visitor or from a connected network? Maybe learn from the interactions established over time and change its behavior. Make choices. What if the whole city could interact with its citizens without human control, citizen could establish a bi-directional kind of interaction with their “semi-sentient” city?
These premises shape the orientation we want to lay our study and research path on. The organizing team is part of Tongji University Design and Innovation College and Fablab O Shanghai; both institutions stands on solid architectural design foundations but aim to explore new and innovative patterns for the city of the future, which Shanghai as an ecosystem is now more than ever promoting.
We will explore how to collect, decode and use data from various sources, work with elements of parametric and algorithmic analysis to translate data into design criteria and we will use digital fabrication tools and techniques to create an architectural scale interaction installation that will be exhibited and tested at the WIEE Expo in Tongji Jiading Campus.
Activities include 2018 SLUSH Shanghai, 2018 Shanghai Maker Faire, 2018 China-US Youth Maker Competition and Forum, 2018 Cross-Strait Youth Maker Competition and Forum, 2018 Shanghai STEAM Innovation & Entrepreneurship Forum, etc. During the summer vacation, WIEE will cooperate with partners from home and abroad and attract students from Chinese and foreign primary schools, high schools and colleges. Integrated with educations, scientific researches, cultural exhibitions and Makers’ activities, a co-innovating and sharing community will be created.
Sohith is an architectural designer with a broad range of experience in architecture, urbanism and interior design. He is a founding partner of Design SPI, a practice based out New York City. He directs the creative vision of Design SPI, which attempts to bring together research and new design techniques through a lens of elegance.
After working in New York for a number of years, Sohith attended Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation where he received a Masters degree in Advanced Architectural Design. There he studied computational design and architectural history and theory. Prior to Columbia, Sohith attended Ball State University in Indiana, USA where he received his Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Environmental design.
With a range of experience in project delivery of complex architectural designs in several countries, including USA, China, India, and Saudi Arabia, Sohith has worked on projects such as the Harbin Labor Recreation Center for MAD Architects, and the KAFD Iconic Metro Station for Zaha Hadid Architects as a project manager and lead designer. Having produced design-work within a variety of project types such as urban masterplanning, residential complexes, office towers, museums, and transport infrastructure, he explores a diversity of project types and scales for architectural innovation opportunities.
Sohith is interested in furthering design utilizing computational design techniques and realizing it through new means of fabrication and installation.
Associate Professor, School of D&I, Tongji University; Deputy Director of Environmental Design; Founder of FABO | Shanghai, FABO | Playground.
He earned a dual master’s degree in Architecture Design from Iowa University and Harvard University. He has been the creative design director of Atelier-iform. Since 2013, he has been the Fablab director of the School of Design and Innovation at Tongji University. He founded the Fablab O brand.
丁峻峰，同济大学设计创意学院，副教授;环境设计专业副主任;FABO|中国数制工坊， FABO PlayGround|中国“数制”乐园创始人; 本科毕业于东南大学建筑学，并获得哈佛大学设计学和爱荷华建筑学双硕士，任 Atelier-iform 创意设计 总监， 自 2013 年开始，担任同济大学设计创意学院 Fablab 主任,创办了 Fablab O 品牌。
After graduation at Roma Tre University’s School of Architecture, Saverio Silli worked as an architect, while pursuing the academic career as a lecturer in his alma mater, for the classes “Visual Communication Design” and “Graphic Representation Methods”.
He has been an active member of Italian’s maker community since 2012, giving birth to the first two Fablabs in Rome. In 2015 he moved to Milan to enroll in the Fab Academy course directed by Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.
After graduation as a Digital Fabrication Specialist he became the local instructor for Fab Academy in Fablab WOMA in Paris, France, and since December 2016 he is the Director of Courses at Fablab O Shanghai and Assistant Research Fellow in Tongji University’s College of Design and Innovation in Shanghai, working as an instructor and developing new classes for the STEAM education.
Saverio Silli毕业于罗马第三大学建筑学院，曾担任建筑师，同时在Roma Tre建筑学院担任讲师，担 任“视觉沟通设计”和“图像表达法”课程。 自2012年以来，他一直是意大利创客社区的积极成员，在罗马创造了前两个Fablabs。在2015年， 他搬到米兰参加了麻省理工学院位和原子中心主任Neil Gershenfeld领导的Fab学院课程。 毕业后作为数字制造专员，他在法国巴黎的Fablab WOMA成为Fab学院的本地讲师，自二零零六 年十二月起，他是上海市Fablab O课程主任，同济大学设计与创新学院助理研究员上海作为讲师， 为STEAM教育开设新课程。
他在罗马，米兰，巴黎，首尔，深圳，西安，波士顿等地组织了数字制造工作坊，他是国际fablab 网络的积极成员。
J.travis Russett, founder of bēstia—a laboratory for symbiotic life-machine exploration, imbues his works with an erotics of wildness, the spirit of humanity, nature and intelligent machines. Since 2016, J.travis has lead bēstia to embody a culture of interdisciplinary fabrication and rapid prototyping, evident in developing works: dìshūBot, a self-learning robot that paints Chinese calligraphy in water (featured in the 2017 Bay Area Maker Faire) and Pure Imagination, plant fed microbial fuel cells that will power our homes and much more. J.travis holds a Master degree in Architecture from UCLA and a Fab Diploma of the 2017 Fab Academy. Further, he is a researcher at Tongji University of Shanghai, developing STEAM education and outreach in a number schools and universities throughout Eastern China.
J.travis Russett，是致力于探索生命与机器共生模式的bēstia实验室创始人。其作品充分彰显他的研 究兴趣:以人文精神、自然精神和机器精神三者，来共同展现不羁野性的原始魅力。自2016年以 来，J.travis引领bēstia实验室创作了体现“跨学科数字智造”和“快速成形技术”精髓的作品: dìshūBot 地书机器人—— 能以水性涂料书写中国书法的自我学习型智能机器人(2017年旧金山湾 区Maker Faire特别精选作品);以及 Pure Imagination 纯粹的想象力—— 能为人类家园提供电力 的纯植物喂养型微生物燃料电池。J.travis拥有加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校建筑学硕士学位，并且毕 业于2017年度Fab Academy课程。同时
Kostas is Professor in Tongji D&I since September 2017, and his research interests focus on sustainable design, design research, architectural design and urban planning. He has been Associate Professor at Harvard University where he taught courses in Digital Media, Algorithmic Architecture, Kinetic Design, and Research Methods.
July 2003 – June 2012. Harvard University, Associate Professor.
July 1995 – June 2003. UCLA, Assistant Professor.
July 1994 – June 1995. University of Cincinnati, Assistant Professor.
人工智能专家，哈佛大学（美国）设计学院副教授; 密歇根大学（美国）建筑学，电机工程博士，俄亥俄州立大学（美国）建筑学硕士（计算机辅助建筑设计）有机停车公司首席执行官（首席执行官），THE MEME设计首席技术官（CTO）
IAAC Global Summer School Shanghai will take place in two locations: Fablab O @ Tongji University College of Design and Innovation, located in the Yangpu District on Fuxin Road 281, Shanghai, and at the Jiading Campus of Tongji University which is located at No. 4800 Cao’an Highway, Jiading District, Shanghai. This location has a total enclosed area of 104,591m2.
IAAC GSS is open to creative and innovative people who are interested in fields such as architecture, urban planning, digital fabrication, design, etc., searching for a multidisciplinary experience in an international environment. No previous skills are required, although CAD design, programming and digital fabrication skills are welcome. The official language of the course is English.
After the course, the participants will have gained theoretical and applicative knowledge about advanced design strategies. They will be familiar with parametric software, data visualization and use of digital machines. The last day of course participants will join a presentation of developed projects reviewed by a renown jury and will receive a Global Summer School Diploma.
Each participant is responsible to investigate which documents are required via the embassies in their country of origin. The school will provide a confirmation letter regarding the participation to the course, and will assist where possible the visa process.
Fee is 1.552€ (12.000CN¥) and includes all material costs needed for the course, accommodation and food. No additional registration fee is required. Transport tickets are not included in the fee. Each participant should bring his/her own computer with the software installed. Further details about the software will be given to the participants upon acceptance.
EARLY BIRD FEE before May 15th
1.320€ (10.200CN¥)
In order to register to the Global Summer School, participants need to submit the online application form, where they will be asked to fill their personal details and to upload a CV. Portfolio is not required. GSS18 dates are from 2-14 of July 2018 and applications are open until the 10th of June 2018.
