Weekly Update 3 july 2013

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going out wednesday!

Tonight, it's a back to normal @XinCheJian, several announcements, the possibility to receive the machineroom training this evening and upcoming events, also keep an eye out on dotdotlab's project "dotdotdot" launching downstairs in a joint interactive exhibition piece with W+K for the month.


Summary for Wednesday/本周三开放日综述

Biayna Bogosian - Synesthesia Spencer Featherstone - assistive aids


Wednesday Presenters/本周演讲者介绍

Biayna will present her research on design workflow automation that utilizes various physical and non-physical factors to add information resolution to the built environments. Biayna Bogosian is an architect interested in computational design and highly localized materialization processes that respond to data patterns. Biayna holds a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. Since 2011, Biayna has taught digital media seminars and design studios at Columbia University GSAPP, and USC School of Architecture.

Spencer Featherstone the key ingredient in swarm robots is back and is going to discuss his progress in trying to make affordable, reasonably functional assistive aids, a call for interest in having one or more mini hack nights/weekends, or individuals who want to get involved, or create longer term project/s to develop and publish.


Upcoming Events/近期活动安排

7th July, 1pm - 3pm - Autonomous Robo Racing - @ shanghai Library.

Let's see if Team <a href="http://weibo.com/dfrobot">@DFrobot</a> will manage to get off the starting line this race in the autonomous races.