Vertigo Building, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, NL
October 20-21, 2022
We are excited to announce the upcoming two-day symposium Robots that Build. The Extensions of Man.
The symposium, organized by assistant professors Cristina Nan and Sergio M. Figueiredo at the TU Eindhoven, examines robotic fabrication within the framework of craft, craft-anchored techniques, and multi-material systems. Under the paradigm of process efficiency and optimization, robotic fabrication is extensively employed to diminish manual labor and minimize margins of error or waste. Yet, robotic use can also be viewed as a means to translate, adapt and advance craft-anchored manufacturing techniques. Nearly 25 years after the publishing of McCullough’s Abstracting Craft. The Practiced Digital Hand, the symposium sets out to test the current state and correlation between robotic fabrication and craft.
The event brings together experts from leading research institutes and architecture schools in architecture, robotic fabrication, computational design, and innovative material systems. Recent advances in computational design strategies will be discussed in relation to state-of-the-art robotic fabrication. The themes to be discussed are the robotic translation of craft-anchored techniques, the relationship between tool, material, designer, and control of robotic processes. The talks explore the past, present, and future of robots and robotic fabrication in architecture through the lens of multi-materiality, the design of process and hybridized practices. The relationship between low-tech and high-tech in construction and the intelligence of systems—analog vs digital—are key aspects we interrogate. Finally, innovative approaches, current and future challenges of robotic fabrication, experimental material use, and circular strategies are addressed and examined.
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