Shape to Fabrication Conference 2023 (London, April 26-27)

The Shape to Fabrication conference presents innovative real-world projects going beyond the theoretical.

The Shape to Fabrication conference focuses on cutting-edge technology and innovative construction with architecture, engineering, and design applications. Our speakers are shaping the future, working at the intersection of technology and design innovation, unafraid to push technology and engineering to new heights.

We live in an unprecedented time. An age where buildings are moving, jewellery is printed, clothes are sprayed on, facades are folded by robots, and cars are made of textile. We are proud to present to you the first to use such pioneering technologies to create these magical experiences.

Discover the latest approaches in digital fabrication and computational design from an international panel of presenters – Architects / Engineers / Fabricators / Artists.

Presenters already confirmed include Arup, Foster + Partners, Front Inc., Grimshaw, Heatherwick Studio, Joseph Walsh Studio, PLP Architecture, YIP Engineering, Zaha Hadid, Zahner...

The 8th iteration of Shape to Fabrication is presented in partnership with the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster. The 2-day conference takes place at the University of Westminster’s Marylebone Campus, London, on April 26-27, 2023.

Visit the Shape to Fabrication Logistics page for essential and on-the-day information.

Early Bird Tickets for the Shape to Fabrication conference are now available!

STF Early Bird Conference Ticket

STF Early Bird Student Conference Ticket

AROUND - Global 3D Design Festival by Gravity Sketch (November 9-12, 2022)

AROUND - Global 3D Design Festival by Gravity Sketch
November 9-12, 2022

Our friends from Gravity Sketch have organized AROUND, a global design festival meant to provide a space for the creative community to get inspired and learn from each other around 3D workflows.

They have an impressive line of speakers, some of them showing the workflow Rhino-Gravity Sketch (check the agenda).

During the breaks, visit the McNeel virtual booth to learn more about SubD, "ask me anything", "new in Rhino WIP", etc.

Complete details and free registration...

Rhino User Meeting - Dubai 2022

Rhino User Meeting
November 10, 2022 | 9:00 - 18:00
Cosentino City - Dubai Design District

In collaboration with Cosentino, McNeel Europe is organizing for the first time in the Middle East a Rhino User Meeting. The event will take place during the Dubai Design Week on November 10, 2022.

If you are an architect, engineer, product designer, urban planner, landscape designer, 3D modeler, educator, or student, join us and learn more about state-of-the-art 3D design, analysis, optimization, engineering, and fabrication.

Get inspired by industry experts who will share their more recent projects and workflow with the audience, and don’t miss the chance to meet other Rhino and Grasshopper users like you.

More information and registration...

Disrupt Business of Architecture Symposium (online) - November 1-3, 2022

Disrupt - The Largest Business of Architecture Symposium in the World
November 1-3, 2022 (online)

Disrupt is the first of its kind Business of Architecture Symposium looking to bring major architecture practices under one roof to discuss how they strategize for growth and success.

These are the experts behind top architecture practices. Their everyday decisions help build the world's most admired megastructures. If you want to learn about the business you want to learn from them.

The Rhino and Grasshopper community is welcome to join the event.

Complete details and registration...

2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium, NYC, October 13

 

2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium in NYC

October 13, Thursday, 6 pm-8 pm (EDT)

Verizon Executive Education Center at Cornell Tech / Live Webinar

Pre-registration is required for both in-person and for webinar attendees.

The Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) of The University of Tokyo is pleased to invite you to the 2022 COMMON GROUND Symposium in New York City on October 13, 2002, cohosted by The University of Tokyo New York Office (UTokyoNY).

The symposium aims to bring together leading researchers and specialists from Japan and the US to explore and advance our insights into today's emerging topics in integrating virtual and physical agents and spatial description systems.

The evening will feature keynote speeches by researchers from IIS on their cutting-edge research in applying game engines to Common Ground to facilitate interactions between agents and spatial systems, followed by discussions with panelists from academia and industry in the US on the latest topics from related fields.

Details and registration...

Symposium – Robots That Build. The Extensions of Man - Eindhoven University of Technology (October 20-21, 2022)

Symposium - Robots That Build. The Extension of Man

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.

Complete information on the event, speakers, and registration...

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting | 4th October 2022

Join Simply Rhino and McNeel at Arup for the Grasshopper UK UGM, with updates from McNeel (Rhino WIP, GH1, GH2...), a presentation from our hosts Arup, a Rhino.Inside Revit case-study demonstration from Bimorph, and a V-Ray update from Chaos Group.

• Date: Tuesday 4th October 2022
• Time: 18:30-20:30
• Location: Arup, 8-13 Fitzroy St. London, W1T 4BQ
• Book your place: Free to attend but places are limited and you must register for your place

Chaos Meetup Berlin - September 27, 2022

Chaos Meetup Berlin

September 27, 2022

4-8 PM CEST

Join Chaos, Enscape, and McNeel at Art Stalker for the second edition of the Berlin-based Chaos Meetup this September 27 at 16:00 CET. 

We’ll deep dive into architecture and design with inspiring industry leaders like Chang Hoon Jeong from the Technical University of Munich and Hanns-Jochen Weyland from Störmer Murphy and Partners.

We’ll finish off with some friendly chatting and beer.

Hope to see you there!

Schedule and free registration...

Design Modelling Symposium Berlin - September 24-28, 2022

Design Modelling Symposium Berlin

Workshops: September 24-25, 2022

Conference: September 26-28, 2022

The Design Modelling Symposium has been an international symposium on computational design in architecture, engineering, arts, and product design since 2009. The conference has been held in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Paris so far and is taking place for the eighth time this year.

Conference

“Technology is the answer, but what is the question?” famously asked Cedric Price to an audience of architects and engineers in 1966.

For researchers, educators, and practitioners in the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) fields, the question could not be clearer, nor the answer more urgently needed. In the age of growing inequalities, climate crisis, and ecosystem collapse, the AEC sector accounts for almost 40% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide; it is responsible for eco-systemic changes and plays a central role in creating and perpetuating social injustice.

Among the many campaigners, communities, institutions, and governments worldwide that have declared a state of emergency, what are the radical measures we can take to change how we plan, build, operate, maintain and dismantle our built environment?

The Design Modelling Symposium 2022 aims to provide critical perspectives on current advances in computational methods in the field of AEC in this age of crisis and hope.

Recent advances in design and construction technology may hold the promise to help us trace a new path, but at the same time, they hold the threat of turbo-charging existing destructive paradigms. Our collective practices are tantamount to many uncontrolled planetary experiments, deploying technologies and practices at unprecedented scales first and worrying about the consequences later. We urgently need to negotiate a myriad of global and hyper-local equilibria between the built and natural environment.

By synthesizing artistic, theoretical, and technological perspectives and positions, the symposium aims to challenge innovative digital techniques in the design, materialization, operation, and assessment of our built environment, examining their impact on the future of societies and the environment. In this context, the digitalization of design seems to offer multiple routes to identify the material, social, ethical, ecological, and other dimensions of new, necessary, and radically measured equilibria.

The conference is structured around four thematic areas that explore domains in which new, radical measures need to emerge, from the tools that enable design, simulation, and materialization to new ways of approaching the relationship between built and unbuilt environments.

Workshops

There are eight Rhino/Grasshopper-related workshops the weekend before the conference, including V-Ray, Enscape, VisualARQ, Monoceros, One Click LCA, Compas FoFin, PlanFinder, and ML.

Details and registration...

Come see us at Autodesk University 2022

Come visit us at Autodesk University in New Orleans booth #AE484, September 27-29, 2022, in New Orleans. We would love to hear how Rhino and Grasshopper are working for you. It will be an excellent time to find out what we're currently developing. We'll be there showing Rhino.Inside.Revit, pyRevit, Compute, iRhino, and the Rhino 8 WIP.

ExpoCAMACOL 2022

 

ExpoCAMACOL is an event that gathers together the commercial and professional sectors of the construction industry. We invite you to visit Origami, showcasing their works at ExpoCAMACOL this week in Medellín, Colombia. 

Origami consists of a team of experts passionate about architectural spaces' design, development, and transformation. They carry out co-creation work with each project and provide support throughout the design, development, production, and installation process. With their human talent and Origami technology, they transform spaces and bring your ideas to life with endless possibilities.

They use Rhino 7 and Grasshopper for modeling 3D Metal Perforated Facades Systems, Sun Control Solutions, and Metal Ceilings. With training and support from Rhino3D Colombia and its RhinoFabStudio. They also use third-party plugins like Elefront, Human, LunchBox, Metahopper, ShapeDiver, and Wombat.
 

 

Visitor Schedule:

Wednesday-Friday, August 24-26

10:30 am-8:00 pm

Saturday, August 27

From: 10:30 am-6:00 pm  

Register here!

Questions? Please email mercadeo@demetalicos.com

Check out Rhino3D.Education for the latest courses on Rhino, Grasshopper, and more!

Chicago Innovate Tech 2022: Symposium & Workshops

 

Chicago Innovate Tech 2022 is a two-day event that includes a symposium on October 21st at the Chicago Architecture Center with workshops being held on October 20th. The event, organized and moderated by local design technologists, architects, and engineers, focuses on innovation and technology in the architecture - engineering - construction - operations (AECO) industry. 

Workshops include:

• Rhino Compute, Hops and Player with Andy Payne
• Rhino.Inside.Revit with Scott Davidson
• Enter the Omniverse: Design Collaboration Accelerated with Robert Cervellione & George Matos
• Swiftlet: Web APIs in Grasshopper with Sergey Pigach
• Plus many more!

Details and registration...

AA Visiting School New York 2022

 

AA Visiting School New York 2022

August 5-13, 2022

New York City

AA Visiting School (AAVS) has a great program planned this summer featuring designers and academics from some of the leading offices and innovative institutions around the globe!

In partnership with Pratt Institute, this intensive 9-day program is in-person and will cover some of the most relevant and advanced approaches to computation and urban design in practice today. Instruction will be intensely focused on Rhino and Grasshopper with both beginner and advanced methods covered throughout the workshop.

Sign up today - Registration ends July 29th!

Featuring staff and lecturers with academic experience at the Architectural Association, Pratt Institute, UPenn, MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Hong Kong University, Technical University Munich, Technical University Prague, UCL the Bartlett, TU Graz, ETH Zurich, and Tsinghua University. The program also features staff and lecturers with professional experience at Zaha Hadid Architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Bjarke Ingels Group, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Bart//Bratke, and URBAN BETA.

Registration and details...

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting in London - June 22 at 18:30h

Grasshopper UK User Group Meeting in London
June 22 at 18:30h

Join SimplyRhino UK and McNeel at Grimshaw for the Grasshopper UGM, with updates from McNeel, a presentation from our hosts Grimshaw alongside Buro Happold, and a V-Ray for Grasshopper update and presentation from Chaos Group.

Details and registration...

Hackathon "Beyond of Algorithmic Design"

Join SEEDstudio and Generative Way in their Hackathon Beyond of Algorithmic Design event where participants will explore the methodology of Procedural Co-Creation with Grasshopper through the algorithmic development of the projects and will encourage collaboration in this field and projects during and after the event.

It consists of a 4-day competition that will take place in teams, in which each one will develop a different project in the following areas: construction, transportation, fashion, and art. 

Andres Gonzalez, Rhino3D.Education, cofounder and worldwide director of RhinoFabStudios with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry and computational 3D generative algorithms, will be the jury and will evaluate the participants within the area of algorithmic design.

Location: Online / Hybrid in Centro de Cultura Digital, CDMX, Mexico (June 7th)

Date: June 4-7

Time: 9 am to 7 pm

Fee: Free!

Register here!

For additional information, visit this link.

Questions? Contact Daniela Granados at marketing@seedinterfaces.com

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Plant Kit Deep Dive Workshops, May 20 and 21

Plant Kit Deep Dive Workshops

May 20 and 21

Using generative tools and computational power, Plant Kit allows you to build workflows that integrate analysis, design decisions, and rapid iteration to realize your planting design efficiently and effectively using conceptual plants or real-life plant data.

The Plant Kit Deep Dive workshops will focus on workflows and techniques that will allow you to explore how to create and iterate through your planting design and documentation. Learn how to use computational power to simultaneously incorporate multiple factors into your designs such as ecosystem services, long-term sustainability/survivability, design-driven placements, and more. These sessions will encourage you to follow along and engage in interactive demos to gain greater insight into Plant Kit’s functionality.

Pick the time that works for you and register here!

• Weekday Session Friday, May 20, 1-4 pm, EST
• Weekend Session 1 Saturday, May 21, 9 am-12 pm, EST
• Weekend Session 2 Saturday, May 21, 1-4 pm, EST

Cost: $300 ($100 for students and faculty)

Class size: 10 maximum participants per session. Sign up today to reserve your spot!

Plant Kit is a tool specifically designed to evolve your planting design workflow by packaging essential modeling and design functions into a suite of tools that take a different approach than any other software today. This deep dive workshop is designed for users with basic knowledge of Rhino and Grasshopper, although new users are welcome to join to understand how this new toolset could expand their current methods of planting design. 

Participants will leave the workshop with a deep understanding of Plant Kit and methods for linking these techniques to your existing computational design workflow. Participants will understand:

• How plants can be used as blocks for documentation in CAD
• How these plant blocks can translate to nodes in rendering software like Lumion
• How to visualize growth over time and bloom over the course of the year.
• How to use the plant schedule component

Details and registration...

Rhino Webinar: Computational Design in Landscape Architecture (May 19 at 2 PM CEST)

May 19, 2022, at 2 PM CEST
Hosted on Zoom by McNeel Europe

Are you a landscape architect, urban planner, computational designer, town council technician, constructor, student, teacher or just wanting to get started with your own green space design?

Join Thomas Chapman and McNeel Europe for a Zoom live webinar followed by questions and answers. Discover projects done with Rhino and how you can use it in this field. Learn how computational design is used to streamline and enhance the work of landscape architecture, understand his personal approach, and get a sneak peek of his latest open source project LandArch Tools.

Speaker: Thomas Chapman studied Landscape Architecture at RMIT and graduated in 2015 with an MLA with Distinction in Landscape Architecture from the University of Edinburgh. Thomas has over six years of professional experience at world-renowned offices, GROSS. MAX., HASSELL, Aspect Studios, and now, Realm Studios. He also teaches Rhino and Grasshopper at RMIT.

Questions about the webinar? Please email marketing.team@mcneel.com.
Interested in Rhino for landscape design? rhino3d.com/for/landscape-design.

More information and registration...

Design Modelling Symposium Berlin - September 2022

Technology is the answer, but what is the question?, famously asked Cedric Price to an audience of architects and engineers in 1966.

For researchers, educators, and practitioners in the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) fields, the question could not be clearer, nor the answer more urgently needed. In the age of the growing inequalities, climate crisis, ecosystem collapse, the AEC sector accounts alone for almost 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, it is responsible for eco-systemic changes and plays a central role in creating and perpetuating social injustice.

Among the many campaigners, communities, institutions, and governments worldwide that have declared a state of emergency, what are the radical measures we can take to change the way we plan, build, operate, maintain and dismantle our built environment?

The Design Modelling Symposium 2022 (Berlin, September 24-28) aims to provide critical perspectives on current advances in computational methods in AEC in this age of crisis and hope.

Recent advances in design and construction technology may hold the promise to help us trace a new path, but, at the same time, they hold the threat of turbo-charging existing destructive paradigms. Our collective practices are tantamount to many uncontrolled planetary experiments, deploying technologies and practices at unprecedented scales first and worrying about the consequences later. We urgently need to negotiate a myriad of global and hyper-local equilibria between the built and natural environment.

By synthesizing artistic, theoretical, and technological perspectives and positions, the symposium aims to challenge innovative digital techniques in the design, materialization, operation, and assessment of our built environment, examining them in relation to their impact on the future of societies and the environment. In this context, the digitalization of design offers multiple routes to identify the material, social, ethical, ecological, and other dimensions of new, necessary, and radically measured equilibria.

The conference is structured around four thematic areas that explore Almas in which new, radical measures need to emerge, spanning from the tools that enable design, simulation, and materialization to new ways of approaching the relationship between built and unbuilt environments.

Complete info about the conference and workshops...

New: Land Kit Intro Workshops

Land Kit Intro Workshops

Multiple dates

Online, Eastern Time Zone

Land Kit 1.0 is a new Grasshopper plugin for landscape architecture developed by Landau Design. They are offering a digital webinar-style workshop designed to acquaint users with Land Kit and to supply an added boost to your landscape design workflow. Usher in the new year with a fresh approach to grading, paving, planting, and more!

Details:

Select the day that works for you and register for one below.

• Friday, January 28, 1:00-3:00 pm, EST
• Wednesday, February 9, 6:30-9:30 pm, EST
• Saturday, February 26, 1:00-3:00 pm, EST

Cost: US$200 (US$100 for students and faculty)

Class size: 12 maximum participants per session

Details and registration...

PDX-GH: Rhino.Inside.Revit - December 9 (online event)

Portland Grasshopper User Group: Rhino.Inside.Revit Meetup 

Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 5:00 PM PST (online event)

Join the Portland Grasshopper User Group on December 9th for an introduction to using Rhino.Inside.Revit with Ehsan Iran Nejad. 

This event will look at the interface between Revit and Rhino. All experience levels of Revit, Rhino, Grasshopper are encouraged to attend. Just curious about BIM or computational design? This is a great place to start!

Details and registration...