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Wednesday, 23rd of February – Growing Space Workshop
Get hands on with our growing spaces and learn how to grow fresh vegetables from food waste! No booking required.
10am-11am
Marylebone Campus, Growing Space located on Luxborough Street
12pm- 1pm
Cavendish Campus, Growing Space, behind the Pavilion (1st floor)
Thursday, 24th of February – Dr Bike Workshop
Bring your bike anytime during the session to speak to our experienced mechanics and get a free bike health check! Also, come and speak to the team about a great deal on second hand bike, helmet and lock for £150. Available for students and staff.
The Norman Foster Foundation (NFF)’s Education + Research programme is organising the 2022 NFF Energy Workshop, which will take place from 25-29 April 2022 in Madrid, Spain. The workshop aims to bring together international experts and students to explore the development of tools, models and design methods to address global energy challenges, and the role of architecture and design in transforming the use of energy resources.
To this end, the NFF will award ten scholarships to students from the diverse backgrounds of Architecture, Urbanism, Design, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Engineering and Environmental Studies. Grants will cover all transportation and accommodation related to the week-long event in Madrid, Spain.
Architecture students are encouraged to apply to design and build workshop in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland that will take place between 29th of July and 9th of August.
The workshop will be located in Kangerlussuaq where the students during a period of 14 days will construct one of the several installations / structures by recycling materials from the local dump site in Kangerlussuaq. The workshop and resulting project will through re-use have a focus on environment and climate challenges on a local and global scale. We will work together with 5 students Arctic DTU in Sisimiut, Greenland.
Tens students will be selected based on 1 page A4 long free form applications. Please send max 1MB email by 25th of May to: sami@ri-eg.com
The workshop will be facilitated by architect professor Sami Rental and architect Harald Seljesæter.
Location and base will be Kangerlussuaq, Greenland.
How to get to Greenland:
Flights from Copenhagen CPH to Kangerlussuaq SFJ
The team will live together in a research station building in Kangerlussuaq. Two people may have to share a room.
The project will cover accommodation and food during workshop. Travels must be covered by participants. No participation fee.
Deadline 25th of June to confirm if the project is possible due to Covid-19. Negative test requested at CPH before boarding the plane, and again at Greenland after 5 days.
Current regulations request quarantine (5 days) which will be the start of the workshop design phase. The team will form a cohort.
The project will reserve tickets with negotiated prices for the flight between Copenhagen-Kangerlussuaq (Air Greenland) for the chosen participants & payment pater.
The team will be 10 international students + 5 students from Greenland. Work together with volunteers and local people.
One free day with social expedition / excursion.
Inussiarnersumik Inuulluaqqusillunga! / Best Wishes!
The Digital X workshop, mentored by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and former director of MIT Media Lab, will comprise a team of granted scholars drawn from the diverse backgrounds of the digital world, design and architecture.
What happens when the natural world and the artificial world become one and the same? What societal and anthropological changes are triggered when direct brain communications occur among humans, and between humans and machines? The Digital X workshop will focus on this kinship, that of architecture and the digital world, how the two play together now, and how they will change the world together, going forward, discussing things that, outrageous today, will be commonplace tomorrow.
Grants will cover all transportation, accommodation and meals related to the week-long event in Madrid. Scholars will engage with an interdisciplinary Academic Body formed by mentors ranging from the fields of electronics and software engineering to social sciences and art.
Those interested in applying please download the application form here.
The Robotic Carving A.R.T. 2018 summer workshop will investigate ways to transform abstract, intangible data, such as material distribution or density, into physical form.
Participants will learn how to apply structural analysis and topology optimization on shell structures and how to translate structural data into robotic instructions.
The workshop will culminate in a 1:1 robotically carved wall installation that will be exhibited in FAB FEST ‘18.
The Textile Robotics A.R.T. 2018 summer workshop will investigate the ways in which industrial robotic arms can generate large scale structural textiles and automate a generative design process through robotic fabrication.
Using structural analysis and topology optimization, participants will explore different pattern combinations and learn how to translate them into robotic instructions.
The workshop will culminate in a 1:1 robotically fabricated installation that will be exhibited in FAB FEST ‘18.
The Faculty has run the Constructionarium for Construction students for the past 10 years – with great success.
The Constructionarium offers Year 2+ students a week at the CITB HQ in Norfolk building scale models of various structures, and is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands on experience of managing and constructing a real construction project, and will allow you to demonstrate valuable site experience on your CV.
Roles undertaken by the students include project management and planning, setting out, carpentry, steelwork and laying concrete.
This year the Constructionarium will be open to Architecture students!
This year we will be constructing scale models of Ove Arup’s Brewery Wharf Bridge and Ravenspurn Oil Platform.
We now have the link available for you to make your £75 deposit which will secure your place and is all the financial contribution we require from yourselves.
We will have a pre-trip preparation day here at the University beforehand, and this is provisionally scheduled for Wednesday 16th May.
