Design Night Sheffield Was a Smash

Tuesday evening I participated in Sheffield’s first Design Night held at Sheffield Institute of Arts. The evening was kicked off by Lee Mullin, Construction Technical Specialist at Autodesk. Design Night Sheffield was also a great occasion to acknowledge the 20 year anniversary of Navisworks which Autodesk acquired 10 years ago. The Sheffield Autodesk office is the main location for Navisworks and BIM 360.

The main speaker for Design Night Sheffield was Elliott Crossley who is a Technologist in the Building Information Modeling, Generative Design field. Elliot has worked on iconic projects like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. His presentation was fascinating as I can’t do his talk justice in a summary and will post the entire talk soon.

We had Sheffield themed drinks, lots of local beer and wine, as well as great local foods like canapies and a another new one to me, the “:toad in a hole”.

There were excellent activities like the making of a custom laser cut key chain using…