FABRICATE is one of the most prominent conferences worldwide in Architecture, Engineering, & Construction research for digital fabrication. It was founded in 2011 by Bob Sheil (UCL/Bartlett) and is a triennial international peer-reviewed conference. This year it was hosted by the Institute for Computational Design at the University of Stuttgart. The conference presented the very best constructed projects and cutting-edge research in the context of computational design and digital fabrication.
At this year’s conference, our outgoing CEO, Carl Bass, gave the keynote. Here’s basically what Carl covered:
- One thing that is really changing the way we design is having access to on-demand, abundant compute power.
- Today we can create things through subtractive and additive manufacturing, robotics and automation, and even through synthetic biology.
- To take advantage of the shape complexity that comes for free with additive manufacturing, we need a whole new approach to design, an…