Symposium / Fabricating Futures

The installation that will be built during the masterclass Fabricating Futures will be the starting point for reflections, presentations and discussion on the impact of robots on the design and fabrication processes. The invited speakers will introduce you to the possibilities of computational design and robotic fabrication. Today and in the future.

What is the impact of these technologies on the role of the designer? How do these fabrication methods relate to traditional means of fabrication? Which evolutions are there within the field of computational design and robotic fabrication? And what will their impact be architecture and design?

Programme

Corneel Cannaerts | Postdoctoral Research, KU Leuven
Design for Robotic Fabrication

Gilles Retsin | Architect, Program Director at Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
Keynote

Elise Elsacker | PhD candidate, VUB
Living Material Fabrication for Sustainable Lightweight Architecture

Thibaut Van Dousselaere & Silke Van Geeteruyen | Masterthesis, UGent
Exoskeleton