Rhino World 2026 Barcelona (Oct 21-23) - Guest Speakers confirmed & Early Bird pricing until August 4

Rhino World 2026 Barcelona
October 21–23
Hotel Rey Don Jaime Castelldefels

Three days of talks, demos, and conversations bringing together the global Rhino community — McNeel staff from every region, industry experts, third-party developers, and computational designers, all in one place.

Early bird pricing ends August 4 — register now to lock in the best rate.

What's in store:

• Keynotes, guest speaker sessions, and hands-on masterclasses
• Live demos from exhibiting partners and solution providers
• An inside look at the Rhino and Grasshopper roadmap — WIP, Grasshopper 2, Rhino Compute, the new Rhino MCP Platform, and more
• Included coffee, lunches, and dinners (two evenings of networking events)
• A sea-view venue just 10 minutes from Barcelona–El Prat Airport

Guest speakers already confirmed include voices from Foster & Partners, Sagrada Família, Volkswagen, Controlmad, Nataly Khadziakova & Giles Miller Studio, Design-To-Production, Her Table Talk, and more.

View the full agenda · Speakers · Venue details

Register Now: €795 €595 (+ VAT if applicable) until August 4...

Supercharge Your Coding Agents: Introducing ShapeDiver Agent Skills

"If you have tried agentic coding or vibe coding, you already know how AI coding assistants can be game changers. (If you haven’t, what are you waiting for?) But of course, not everything is always as perfect as the results you see online make it seem. As you might have noticed, there are a few things that AI coding assistants tend to do that actually make your life harder. They hallucinate, guess API calls, use tokens to explore code paths that you would never need, and keep you debugging things for no reason.

To solve these issues, we proudly announce the ShapeDiver Agent Skills. These skills are a set of instructions that guide AI assistants with ShapeDiver-specific knowledge. Therefore, you can achieve higher-quality results in less time with even fewer tokens. Sounds too good to be true, right?

Whether you're using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or Windsurf, you can now use those skills and make your “dumb” AI coding assistants experts."

Complete article on ShapeDiver website...

Plotter Paths V1.0 Webinar by DesignMorphine

DesignMorphine's webinar Plotter Paths V1.0 teaches a complete Grasshopper workflow for computational pen plotting, from generative geometry to physical output.

Instead of focusing only on design algorithms, the session follows the full making pipeline: 

• Setting up a paper and machine workspace physically and digitally
• Creating a simple plotter art algorithm 
• Cleaning and validating geometry
• Optimizing drawing order to reduce travel and cycle time 
• Converting curves into plottable format
• Visualizing drawn and travel moves, and creating basic G-code

Participants will learn how to think about plotter drawing as machine-aware toolpaths rather than just an image or curves. 

The session covers practical production details such as:

• Margins and bounds checks
• Plottability warnings and errors
• Safe return moves
• Setup commands
• Paper alignment checks
• Multi-layer registration techniques

By the end, participants will understand how to build a reusable Grasshopper pipeline for turning computational drawings into cleaner, faster, and more reliable pen plotter outputs.

Free registration here...

food4Rhino webinar: Arcol x Rhino | Supercharging concept designs (July 15, 2026 at 5PM CEST)

food4Rhino webinar: Arcol x Rhino | Supercharging concept designs

July 15, 2026 at 5PM CEST

Design anything in Rhino—then take it further.

With Arcol’s new Rhino plugin, you can generate floor plans, track customizable live metrics, and build client-ready presentations, all in a real-time collaborative environment where your whole team can work together.

Join the webinar to see the plugin in action, and try it free at app.arcol.io.

Speaker: Mike Buss (LinkedIn), Head of Product at Arcol.

Mike’s background spans interiors, architecture, and industrial design before transitioning into product. His architectural background has been instrumental in shaping Arcol’s user experience and feature set. Mike is passionate about blending creative design with technical innovation to build tools that empower modern architects.

Free registration...

The Pro-sumer: Computational Design for Regenerative Architecture

What if computational design wasn't about creating more complex forms, but about asking better architectural questions? 

Computational design is often associated with increasingly complex geometries and expressive forms. Yet its greatest potential may lie elsewhere: in providing architects with a framework for exploring ideas, testing alternatives and developing more informed design decisions. Rather than being an end in itself,
digital tools can become a means of investigating how architecture responds to environmental, social and spatial challenges.

The Pro-sumer explores how an office tower can evolve from being a consumer of resources into an active contributor to the city. Instead of treating sustainability as an additional layer applied to a finished design, the proposal integrates renewable energy production, water harvesting, food cultivation and passive environmental strategies into the architectural logic of the building itself. The result is a mixed-
use timber tower that reimagines the relationship between architecture, nature and urban life. 

Developed using Rhino throughout the design process, the project employed computational modelling as a tool for exploring geometry, environmental performance and spatial organisation through an iterative workflow. Rather than simply representing a final design, the digital model became an essential part of evaluating alternatives and refining architectural decisions as the proposal evolved.

The Pro-sumer received Second Prize in the Buildner Timber SkyHive Competition and has since been invited for presentation at the Architecture Through Media Forums 2026 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. The project forms part of a broader exploration of how computational design and digital technologies can contribute to regenerative architecture by supporting buildings that
produce resources, strengthen ecological systems and create more resilient urban environments.

Typology: Skyscraper

Project location: Ho Chi Ming City, Vietnam

Gross Built Area: 10.000m2

Prize: - 2nd Buildner Skyhive Skyscraper Challenge! Edition #6

Selected for presentation at the Architecture Through Media Forums 2026, Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London.

Design year: 2023

Design team: Sofia Michopoulou

More about the Pro-sumer here...