Extra Fabrica 2014

DEZACT is pleased to announce Extra Fabrica 2014, a design & build studio-based workshop in Taipei, Taiwan from 28^th June 2014 to 09^th July 2014.

ExtraFabrica2014, a workshop on digital design and fabrication procedures, is being conducted in June-July 2014 in association with Shih Chien University and Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan. The interdisciplinary workshop provides an opportunity to architects and designers to be a part of the 12 day studio and investigate interactive design and fabrication solutions for dynamic socio-cultural fabrics.

ExtraFabrica is a part of Dezact’s exploration aiming to develop and test interactive design and fabrication scenarios in neglected or problematic urban interstices and ecologies, to adapt to existing constructs for new use and identity, to catalyse socio-cultural activities and to engage behaviour parallax between physical and virtual environments. Conditions of 'live' factors with extended duration and occupation, i.e. street life, derelict buildings, traffic, rain, dance, demonstration, and so on, are invited to interfere with quantifiable or codify-able parameters set out by design algorithm, feedback mechanism and fabrication dynamics. The idea envisages architectural outcome which enables fabrication of action, of participation, of change of values, of identity, of confluence of voices and dreams. 

Tutors for Extra Fabrica 2014:

Doreen Bernath | SpaceMedia Int. , AA London

Gary Freedman | SHaGa London,  UN Studio, AAVS Tel Aviv

Ping Hsiang Chen | [IN]Morph Lab, KPF London, AA London

Akshay Goyal | AG+DR, Architron Group, AA London

Sushant Verma | rat[LAB], Zaha Hadid Architects, AA London

Symposium:

AA DRL Director Theodore Spyropoulos is the first confirmed keynote speaker for ExtraFabrica 2014, with a number of more speakers to be confirmed soon for the symposium, that takes place at the end of the workshop.

Collaborators:

Arthur Mamou-Mani | Mamou-Mani Ltd., Simply Rhino Ltd., Uni. Westminster

Angel Fernando Lara Moreira | AA Digital Prototyping Lab, DLAB, Make LAB

Clive Eveleigh | WWarc.Taipei, ZERo-studio, Shih Chien University

Chun Fone Liu | Ming Chuan University, AA Em.Tech.

Yao Chung-Han | i/O Lab, Shih Chien University