Undrawable, unbuildable
Benjamin Dillenburger, Assistant Professor for Digital Building Technologies at the Institute of Technology In Architecture (ITA) at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich The challenge of the first generation of digital fabrication was to develop methods to translate the virtual designs to the real world without loss of information. This situation inverted: today a new generation of machines can fabricate almost anything without constraint of complexity and customization. A gap appeared between conventional design and the magic of digital fabrication. Therefore we need now new design instruments, which address search and discovery rather control and execution. These tools work will work without prescribed models, categorizations and labels to be able to create the unseen. We have countless imperative tools to increase our efficiency and precision. Now is the time to create tools of exploration to inspire us, surprise us and to help us be creative: machines to extend our imagination! Lecture from April 20th, 2016 Organised by IARC (Johannes Ladinig, Peter Massin)