090501_THEVERYMANY_ID&CT

Marc Fornes has been invited as one of the main lecturer for:
INNOVATIVE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
MILAN (ITALY) May 6 - 7th, 2009

http://www.innovativetechnologies.polimi.it/key_speakers.html

# FORM FINDING and COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY
Chair: Filippo Innocenti (Zaha Hadid Architects)
Sense and Advanced Sensiblity - about the relationship of sensuality, obsessions and advanced design techniques
Matias del Campo - SPAN Architects, Vienna
Partly logic / Logic of parts
Marc Fornes - THEVERYMANY
Parametric models: formal thinking for architects
Arnold Walz - DesignToProduction
Liquid parametrics: fluidity of form and process
Cristiano Ceccato - Zaha Hadid Architects

# ENGINEERING FOR CONSTRUCTION
Chair: Massimo Majowiecky (Studio Tecnico Majowiecky)
From structure to fabrication
Nathaniel Stanton - Buro Happold Special Projects, New York
Shrikant Sharma - Buro Happold SMART Group- London
Geometrical approach to complex architecture
Luca Buzzoni -Arup Italia
Digital methods in structural design
Oliver Tessmann– Bollinger & Grohmann
Complex Building Shapes - a Developer’s Perspective
Bruce Frey, Hines

# DIGITAL FABRICATION and FILE TO FACTORY PRODUCTION
Chair: Stefano Converso (Dipartimento DIPSA, Università degli studi Roma Tre)
A bottom-up approach to the implementation of advanced fabrication methods
John Nastasi - Product-Architecture Lab, Stevens Institute of Technology / Nastasi Architects
Architecture = Information
Marthijn Pool - ONL Oosterhuis - Lénard
Compound curved building surfaces with shaped stone blocks
Christian R Pongratz - Pongratz Perbellini Architects
Application of new “fit-for-use” materials in building and construction market
Erwin van Maaren - Nedcam

# TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION and MASS CUSTOMIZATION
Chair Ingrid Paoletti (Dipartimento BEST, Politecnico di Milano)
Parametric Fabrication
Martin Bechthold – Harvard GSD
Evolution of Technical Rationalization in Complex Curtain Wall components
Christian Florian - Permasteelisa Group
Composite Blob Shells
Mike Eekhout - Octatube
Design Driven Innovation
Roberto Verganti - DIG, Politecnico di Milano