Fabricate: Digital Fabrication Conference

The Bartlett School of Architecture announced FABRICATE, a London Conference to assess the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century. Discussion on key themes will include: digital craft, representation and realization, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on- site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts, automated fabrication, and associated theory.

FABRICATE will be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. With presentations and conversations between pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Keynote speakers have been announced as Mark Burry, Philip Beesley, Neri Oxman and Matthias Kohler.

FABRICATE has emerged as the first in a series of focused events from the highly successful Digital Architecture Conference and Digital Hinterlands Exhibition in London September 2009. Organised in collaboration with The Building Centre London, the conference intends to frame discussion around the presentation of built or partially built works by individuals or collaborators in research, practice and industry selected from submissions through the Call for Works (deadline 20 September 2010).

Representing the broad disciplinary spectrum from design to production, the presentation of built work will contribute alongside leading invited speakers from Australia, Europe, North America, and Asia. A significant and supportive context for the event will be provided by London's extensive network of global creative consultancies, many no more than a short stroll away from the venue.

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