FABRICATE 2024 - Creating Resourceful Futures

Full-scale prototypes of Impact Printed Structures, fabricated at the Robotic Fabrication Lab at ETH Zürich, using a custom end-effector mounted on two gantries programmed for synchronous operation. © Michael Lyrenmann, ETH Zürich.
Date
04.04.2024 - 06.04.2024
Time
12.10
Price
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The Royal Danish Academy is pleased to bid welcome to the FABRICATE 2024 conference, led by Professor Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Professor Phil Ayres, both from the Royal Danish Academy - CITA. This year, the conference focuses on the need for a new sustainable design agenda. 

Starting from manufacturing - fabrication - FABRICATE 2024 asks how a rethinking of architecture's methods, technology and construction can create a new societal position for the built environment. 

Across a full two-day programme with four international transdisciplinary keynotes and 16 cutting-edge project presentations from practice and research, FABRICATE 2024 explores how architecture can be rethought through resource consciousness, and what new fundamental questions this poses for architecture?  

Our vision for FABRICATE2024 is to address the pressing need to develop new models for architectural production that rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment. FABRICATE2024 will provide a unique forum for discussing and showcasing radical and creative departures in the design and making of architecture and to reflect upon how, and for whom, we design.
Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Phil Ayres

Program

4. april


  • Opening reception and launch of the FABRICATE 2024 book, that offers a collection of insights from some of the field’s most cutting-edge profiles through interviews and 32 richly illustrated peer reviewed papers  

5.-6. april
International keynotes:

  • Zhu Pei, Studio Zhu Pei (CN)
  • Anna Dyson, Yale University (US)
  • Indy Johar, Dark Matter Labs (UK) 
  • Anders Lendager, Lendager (DK)

4 sessions with cutting-edge presentations from research and practice: 

  • RECLAIM: Circularity and Reuse 
  • LOCALISE: Sourcing and Performance 
  • INTEGRATE: Systems and Context 
  • RATIONALISE: Elements and Assemblies 

All sessions are followed by open moderated discussions.  

About Fabricate
FABRICATE has since its inception in 2011 been a global forum for the exploration of radical new opportunities for architecture and welcomed thousands of international delegates. In partnership with The Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation FABRICATE 2024 will be the fifth conference. Earlier conferences have been held in London (The Bartlett, 2011), Zürich (ETH Zürich, 2014), Stuttgart (Stuttgart University, 2017) and online (2020).

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