The Department of Hybrid Space / Academy of Media Arts Cologne Germany (KHM) and its founder, Prof. Frans Vogelaar, presents “Hybrid Design”, consisting of lectures, screenings and a workshop on self replicating 3D printers (Fab Lab).
Lectures, Exhibition & Workshop Hybrid Design @ Beijing Design Week, Beijing, China, 27 September-3 October 2011
The Department of Hybrid Space / Academy of Media Arts Cologne Germany (KHM) and its founder, Prof. Frans Vogelaar, present the event “Hybrid Design”, consisting of lectures, screenings and a workshop on self replicating 3D printers (Fab Lab).
The workshop “Autonomy-Abstraction” is an experimental living lab installation that strongly interacts with the public. During the workshop we will teach the participants to build small, networked, open source autonomous design elements that together interact with the other objects of the installation.
We have developed a do-it-yourself, self-manufacturing system – using sustainable materials and processes. In a creative environment of knowledge exchange we will build – using pre-fabricated building blocks – components and integrated open source do-it-yourself electro mechanics. The workshop participants will also produce parts on the spot using 3D printers.
Hybrid Design introduces design fields emerging through the combination and fusion of environments, objects and services in the information-communication age. While industrial design concentrated on industrially produced objects, Hybrid Design considers objects, services and environments within their networked systems of production, distribution, use and recycling. Hybrid Design, with its holistic approach, allows us to address today’s challenges of sustainable design and sustainable lifestyles in a more comprehensive way.
Participants: Prof. Frans Vogelaar, David Hahlbrock, Dr. Roman Hahlbrock, Olawuyi Róbert and Jonas Zais.
751 D.Park has quickly become known as a center for creative industries. A former gas power plant, it is a sprawling, dramatic complex of chimneys and boiler towers, railroad beds and acres of pipes, now converted for use as a driver for the city’s creative renaissance.Within this spectacular setting, Design Powered will include over two dozen Beijing Design Week exhibitions and installations, alongside dozens of talks, seminars, workshops and activities covering topics spanning architecture, furniture, industrial and interior design to graphics, new media and fashion.
The exhibitions and installations will be concentrated in two main buildings of approximately 3000 square meters each, alongside 4 smaller buildings nearby. Participants will come from countries including The Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Australia, the United States and Greater China, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.For the 8 days of Beijing Design Week, from September 26 to October 3 2011, with a media preview day on September 25, Design Powered will provide one of the biggest celebrations of design, in all its forms, that Beijing has ever seen.
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