Patent Einreichung "ASP - Algorithmic Sewing Patterns" 10 2019 008 689.9 (16.12.2019)

Patent Einreichung "ASP - Algorithmic Sewing Patterns" 10 2019 008 689.9 (16.12.2019)

Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum Bereitstellen zumindest eines Schnittmusters eines individuell für einen Kunden anzufertigenden Kleidungsstücks

BRIDGE joint funding programme by the SNSF and Innosuisse - the Swiss Innovation Agency

BRIDGE joint funding programme by the SNSF and Innosuisse - the Swiss Innovation Agency

Proof of Concept projects of the thirteenth call set to go! Each of these 7 young researchers, who will receive up to 130,000 Swiss francs in funding to implement their project.

ARTICLE: Inbetween – A Post-Digital Turn – Craft- making 4.0 Verena Ziegler // Linz University of Arts and Design

http://www.archidoct.net/Issues/ArchiDoct_vol7_iss2/Archidoct%2014%2005%20inbetween.pdf

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DR_SOM DIGITAL PRACTICE TU GRAZ OCT-24-27-2019

DR_SOM DIGITAL PRACTICE TU GRAZ OCT-24-27-2019

Design Research Series on Method – Session 75th ARENA Annual ConferenceOctober 24th – 26th 2019 Graz University of Technology, Austria

Digital Practice - emerging possibilities in a shifting architectural profession

http://www.arena-architecture.eu/news/dr_som-digital-practice-tu-graz-oct-24-27-2019/

“InBetween - a post-digital turn” - Verena ZIEGLER - October 24th, 17.30pm

The seventh session of DR_SoM (Design Research Series on Method) will take place at Graz University of Technology. This event is also the 5th Annual Conference of the Architectural Research in Europe Network Association (ARENA). For the third time DR_SoM focuses on architectural research in practice, but for the first time with an emphasis on the digital. In particular, we want to hear about projects and practices that see digital technology as a new way to think and conceive of design. 

The digital is happening in architecture. No longer just in theory. In practice. Right here. Right now. Which is good, because, as we’re so often told, the digital is also our future. And this future will be big, as in Big Data. And artificial, as in Artificial Intelligence. And smart, as in Smart Buildings. And Smart Cities. And ubiquitous, as in Ubiquitous Computing. And robotic, as in Robotic Construction. And sustainable, needless to say. And of course it will all be driven by the most ubiquitous of acronyms: BIM, which stands for Building Information Modeling. When experts talk about these trends, they sometimes use a phrase that has itself become a famous acronym: TINA – There Is No Alternative.

Or is there?

Actually these experts have it backwards. The very essence of digitalization is that there are alternatives. Lots of them. Digital technology is nothing if not malleable. It can take on the most surprising forms because, in and of itself, it doesn’t have one. It’s just bits. So it’s always its own alternative. It provides a plethora of opportunities.

The drive towards the digital can be a curse for those who are overwhelmed by it, forced to change their ways of working, struggle to catch up with the latest software, pay large sums to train their teams in ways that end up making them less creative. But digital technology also empowers those that dare to build their own tools, to design their own workflows, their own ways of doing things. It rewards those that create their own ways of working, that use the digital to design the way they design.

In DR_SoM Digital Practice we’ll explore possibilities that are currently emerging in the realm of digital practice. We’ll debate new models of research in architecture and the novel types of practice they enable. We’ll discuss practical examples that illustrate the ongoing transition towards alternative design and building processes – as well as alternative business and cooperation models that the digital affords. In such examples research typically plays an important part. Not necessarily high-brow academic research, but down-to-earth applied and practical research into new ways of solving problems, of designing, constructing and marketing.

Start-ups have invented new ways of building and established themselves as designer-builder hybrids, defying traditional categories. Architects have become software developers for the profession (and others). New forms of collaboration are appearing, often across time zones and continents.

We are interested in hearing about new, applied architectural research as well as theoretical research that assesses the reality of digital practice. We invite architects, scholars and other professionals from the building industry to present their explorations into the world of emerging possibilities that is the architectural profession.

Making Futures 2019 People, Place, Meaning: Crafting Social Worlds & Social Making - 19.-20.09.2019, Plymouth College of Art, UK

Making Futures 2019 People, Place, Meaning: Crafting Social Worlds & Social Making

Thursday 19 and Friday 20 September 2019 at Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, Devon, UK

https://makingfutures.pca.ac.uk/making-futures-2019

Verena Ziegler PLENARY SESSION 2 19.09.2019; 15.15 - 15.45pm

Title: OpenDress - algorithmic sewing patterns

Panel : DIGITAL PLATFORMS: INCLUDING COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED DESIGN & MICRO-MANUFACTURE (Fab Lab unit)

Can mass customisation of sewing patterns for clothes stop the 2nd highest production of waste pollution - the textile Industry? With the emerging field of computational fabrication new ways of designing and manufacturing supported by algorithms become more and more accessible and their generated results allow for mass customization in physical space. At the State of the art, the use of cut-to-fit software already takes place, but has limitations as it is based on norms and rules going back to the origins of sewing pattern developments (E. Butterick, 1871). As the human body is not standardizable and has different shapes and aesthetic needs,  surface cutting and parameterization through algorithms are a way to handle doubly curved surfaces (the body) with low distortion on 2D (paper or fabric). Starting from scratch, without taking any pre-assumptions about the historic art and rules of sewing patterns into account, this project starts from an experimental body-centered approach creating individual sewing patterns with off-standard intersection lines. Instead of trying to adapt one`s body to standardized norms, this project explores the beauty of imperfection, quirks and identity. 

Through algorithmic sewing patterns, generated form 3d body scan data via mobile app, a new engineering technique offers a catalogue of customizable clothes, for sewing or commissioning to local sewing companies. Think local, act global - with our technique local craftsmanship will be supported and transformed into a new era of digital craftsmanship 4.0. In an interdisciplinary, iterative practice-based investigation between computer science, architecture, textile design and mathematics, algorithmic thinking and practical exploitation of pattern-form-formation, addresses the following topics:

-       Crafting 4.0, enabling alternative business models 

-       building a distributed and ethical supply chain through a global manufacturer network ethnically 

-       Reducing waste pollution through mass customization and usage of fair-trade garments

-       Inclusive design - trying to counteract the standardization of S to XL, exclusion of disabilities and the size zero ideology

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DIGITAL PLATFORMS: INCLUDING COLLABORATIVE DISTRIBUTED DESIGN & MICRO-MANUFACTURE (Fab Lab unit)

This thematic session will explore the relationship of analogue to digital maker practices, including the opportunities afforded by digital micro-production, and the use of digital platforms to coordinate and build communities around collaborative design and distributed manufacturing practices.

Multiple distributed design and manufacturing systems have developed as digital technologies such as online file sharing, cloud computing, standardised geometric data modelling and open source programming languages have emerged and matured. These systems share certain common characteristics. They are scalable, both in terms of geographical nodes, technological and social practice and material production. The Fab Lab network, for example, began as a singular lab at MIT but this model has now been replicated 1,186 times.

Such systems are also adaptable, so that they can fit and serve particular local contexts. Fab Labs and maker spaces like them can be stand alone, or be attached to libraries, cafes or universities. Many are part of analogue and digital maker communities, either based on research interests, educational perspectives or broader social initiatives. Others function as do-it-yourself or repair spaces, developing a grassroots approach to a circular use of made objects. Yet others take a more corporate approach where the offer is aligned to the promotion of particular business strands. 

The inherent flexibility of these nodes and modes of design and production separate them from cruder mass-industrial systems that operate at larger scales and (arguably) with less dexterity. This flexibility is partly a reflection of their different scale, but also the tools and methodologies deployed are inherently different and mutable. Parametric modelling systems, for example, enable multiple designs to be developed from a single common data file with comparative ease and the machines used to fabricate products are (in a similar manner to the early industrial potter's wheel or wood-turner’s lathe) able to produce a relatively broad variety of forms.

Interaction is an essential component of this type of design and making. It is common for information to be commented on, adapted and amended by multiple actors. Connectivity actively encourages improvements in comprehensibility, share-ability, design efficacy and use. The effect of this is the promotion of cooperation between different designers, makers and users, and the active evolution of systems that encourage this type of behaviour most effectively. 

What these systems have perhaps have yet to develop, however, is how to communicate the subjective, tactile and material quality responses of the shared design created by the collaborators. This workshop will enable participants to discuss and experience Collaborative Distributed Design and Micro Manufacturing whilst developing the discussion on communicating subjective responses and the reintroduction of the human mark into the design process.

dgtf Symposium "Matters of Communication" Karlsruhe - lecture

Panel: Objekt und Interaktion

Gestaltete Objekte sind sowohl eine Kombination aus Material, Funktion und Ästhetik, als auch eine Schnittstelle in komplexen technologischen, wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen. Wie wird die Kommunikation zwischen Objekten und Menschen, sowie zwischen Menschen mittels Objekten, heute gestaltet? Wie kommunizieren diese Objekte in Bezug auf ihre Stellung in wirtschaftlichen und ökologischen Kreisläufen? Welche Rolle spielt die Materialität bzw. die Immaterialität in Bezug auf die kommunikativen Fähigkeiten von Objekten?

Pop-up Workshop Series I & II

The Pop-up project practically addresses our responsibility as citizens and designers in the context of mass movement, migration, and the effects of global crises. In one day workshop formats with cultural diverse participants, adaptive building tiles are developed through a modular 3d-printing device, plugged on different transportation machines and robots in combination with pre-stretched fabric.

Here the mobile 3d printing robot is used as a medium for communication and as an experimental thinking space to practically envision how cultural infused home making could look like in the future. The project questions, how we will we live in cities in 100 years’ time? How can we make creative use of urban challenges - like space limitations, cultural diverse visions, lack of natural resources, or growing urban footprint?

Pop-up is a participatory project, funded by Zurich University of the Arts in collaboration with Architecture for Refugees SCHWEIZ, and part of an interdisciplinary PhD investigation from Verena Ziegler in interaction-, industrial-, textile design and architecture. In a practice­-based design approach, the research speculates about sustainable forms of future living in participatory workshop formats and experimental prototypes.

3d printing robots - via line tracking and via playstation joystick

"Adaptive 3d Druckkopf Erweiterung" - HTWG Konstanz

Die Projektarbeit "Konzeption und praktische Adaption eines Flachbett Schneidplotters zu einem grossen 3D Drucker" geht in die erste Phase!!!

Die ausgeschriebene Projektarbeit, im Bereich Master Elektrotechnik und Bachelor Studiengang Maschinenbau der HTWG Konstanz Open Innovation Lab, erforscht im Rahmen des Promotions-Forschungsprojekts "InBetween" von Verena Ziegler, Erweiterungen des 3d-Drucks auf grosse Flächen.

Auf einer 3Meter grossen Fräsmaschine wurden erste Testläufe für einen modularen Druckkopf-Aufsatz gestartet.

Fräse 3Meter Länge

Exhibition @ Open Innovation Lab Konstanz Opening

Collaboration_Institut für Optische Systeme_HTWG Konstanz

Teamprojekt MSI Simulation von 3d-Druck auf elastischen Textilien

INTERSECTIONS // Collaborations in Textile Design Research Loughborough University London

INTERSECTIONS was a one-day conference with exhibition of work organised by the Textile Design Research Group at Loughborough University exploring collaborations in textile design research held at Loughborough University London on 13 September 2017.

On Sept. 13st 2017, Textile Design Research Group at Loughborough University organised INTERSECTIONS, a one-day-conference with exhibition. Verena Ziegler presented her collaborative interdisciplinary PhD research project «InBetween: material encounters in human/non-human interactions» which is situated at the intersection of architecture, textile design, and interaction design and speculates on sustainable forms of future life in critical future scenarios and experimental prototypes.

Read her full conference paper (double blind peer reviewed) online: «InBetween: material encounters in human/non-human interactions», first Author V. Ziegler, second Author Prof. O. Fritz

In the exhibition part, Verena showed prototypes and artefacts from her PhD work in progress as (InBetween - Verena Ziegler). Read her contribution for the exhibition catalogue online: «InBetween - Wunderkammer Lab» (work in progress, PhD research).

Frei Otto

Buckminster Fuller

Antoni Gaudí

Frei Otto

Frei Otto

Frei Otto

Buckminster Fuller

Antoni Gaudí

Baden Württemberg Stiftung

29.06.2017 - Ideenwettbewerb 3D-Druck: innovativ und kreativ Baden-Württemberg Stiftung

"NEUE MATERIALIEN UND ZUKUNFTSWEISENDE TECHNOLOGIEN"

https://www.bwstiftung.de/forschungstag/#c3140

ANALOGIEN – BIONIK UND FORMFINDUNG

PROJEKTARBEIT „ENTWICKLUNG EINES BIONISCHEN TRAGWERKS – DER LIBELLEN FLÜGEL ALS VORBILD“

BETREUUNG: PROF. OLIVER FRITZ, VERENA ZIEGLER

TEAMARBEIT: JULIA SCHALL, NINA ELIDJANI, ARINA BELAJEFF

Ausgehend von der Betrachtung des Libellenflügels wurden verschiedene Experimente gestartet, die dessen Eigenschaften aufweisen sollen. Dafür wurde der Aufbau des Flügels und dessen Beweglichkeit näher untersucht, frei interpretiert und in eine Versuchsreihe übersetzt. Die Voronoi Zellen des Flügels weisen unterschiedliche Formen und Größen auf, außerdem variiert die Anzahl der Knotenpunkte. Durch diesen Aufbau kann sich der Flügel beim Flug optimal verformen, um der Luft den entsprechenden Widerstandentgegenzusetzen.

Das Ziel der Experimente ist eine gewünschte Form, wie der Libellenflügel beim Flug, zu erzeugen. Dies geschieht durch die Entwicklung optimaler Elemente, analog zu den Voronoi Zellen des Flügels.  Somit besitzen auch diese Elemente verschiedene Formen, Größen und Verbindungen, um die gewünschte Form zu ermöglichen.

Bionic structures - generated by Grasshopper & Kangaroo

Exhibition and Presentation dgtf-Kolloquium «Design Promoviert» 20.11.2016

http://www.design-promoviert.de/index.php/16-kolloquium-design-promoviert-in-dessau/

Wunderkammer for Arising Matter_Practice-led Laboratory for Curious Materials

18.11.2016 - NATURE, BODY and SPACE EXPERIMENTS FOR EVOLUTION IN INTERACTION

Workshop and micro-symposium called “Wunderkammer for Arising Matter ­-Practice-­led Laboratory for Curious Materials” from 17.-19th November 2016, in the framework of Zurich University of the Arts, internal project financiering (IDE).

Within these three days Wunderkammer workshop and micro-symposium- debates, short presentations and hands-on workshops with interdisciplinary expert participants will explore multiple perspectives on the experiences with materiality and differing practices, ending in an Wunderkammer exhibition for material body and space experiments exposed to the public. In thought provoking, physical explorations through speculative prototypes the workshop will practically exemplify new thinking about matter and processes of materialization in contemporary theoretical debates, where we as creators or catalyzers venture into the hypothetical and unexplored, progressively aiming to relatable adapt for evolutions in interaction.