CAMP Festival 2016

2016-09-27 00:00:00 2016-09-29 00:00:00 America/Toronto CAMP Festival 2016 CAMP Festival is two solidly packed days of cutting-edge creative technology, art and design, with hand-picked speakers from around the world coming together in Calgary. Calgary FITC Calgary

Presentation


Overview

Jessica and Jesse will dissect their attempts to mash-up biology, architecture, computer science and fashion. From futuristic dresses generated from body scans and made entirely by robots to algorithmic studies of mutant plants and coral. This talk will take your through some of the projects they have created over the last 9 years at their design studio, Nervous System, while examining the possibilities and challenges of digital fabrication and raising questions about the future of design, fashion and manufacturing.

Objective

An exploration of the intersection of art, science and technology where generative design and digital fabrication are changing the way we create

Target Audience

Designers, makers, creative coders, etc

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn

  1. How can nature serve as a paradigm for better design software?
  2. What happens when a biologist/architect and a mathematician/computer scientist collaborate?
  3. What do flowers, leaves and sea slugs have in common?
  4. What are the possibilities and challenges of 3D printing?
  5. What is 4D printing?