A number of themes will be explored including adopting a digital mindset, the role of digital in the skills training education and diversity agenda, adopting an outcome rather than a technology focussed approach, utilizing digital technologies to solve the problems of today, not just the future, and, of course, collaboration and change management.
You’ll have heard lots recently about BIM, Big Data, IoT, Smart Cities, Cloud, UAVs, Laser Scanning, Virtual Reality, Robotics and much more much more – but what do they mean to you?
Speaker Highlights
- Self-Assembly Lab, Skylar Tibbitts, MiT
- David Hancock, Head of Construction, Cabinet Office
- Open Source Design, Alastair Parvin, Wiki House
- The World’s Smartest Building – Ron Bakker PLP Architecture
- Digital Enlightenment, Richard Peters, Decoded, CEO
Self-Assembly Lab, Skylar Tibbitts, MiT
Skylar Tibbits, a TED Fellow, is an artist and computational architect working on ‘smart’ components that can assemble themselves.
Can we create objects that assemble themselves – that zip together like a strand of DNA or that have the ability for transformation embedded into them? These are the questions that Skylar Tibbits investigates in his Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a cross-disciplinary research space where designers, scientists and engineers come together to find ways for disordered parts to become ordered structures.
David Hancock, Head of Construction, Cabinet Office
Following the successful implementation of the Government Construction Strategy find out what is next for our industry. What are the opportunities for growth and UK expertise?
Open Source Design, Alastair Parvin, Wiki House
Alastair Parvin believes in making architecture accessible to 100 percent of the population.
He is one of a team behind WikiHouse, an open-source construction set that allows anyone to freely share model files for structures, which can then be downloaded, "printed" via CNC cutting machine and easily assembled. Parvin calls WikiHouse a very early experiment, the seed of what he sees as design’s great project in the 21st century: the democratization of production.
The World’s Smartest Building – Ron Bakker PLP Architecture
It knows where you live. It knows what car you drive. It knows who you’re meeting with today and how much sugar you take in your coffee. This is the Edge, and it’s quite possibly the smartest office space ever constructed. Deloitte, the buildings main tenant is collecting gigabytes of data on how the Edge and its employees interact. Central dashboards track everything from energy use to when the coffee machines need to be refilled. On days when fewer employees are expected, an entire section might even be shut down, cutting the costs of heating, cooling, lighting, and cleaning. Architect of the Edge Rob Bakker of London based PLP Architecture explores a new way of working and the future of design.
Digital Enlightenment, Richard Peters, Decoded, CEO
Digital Enlightenment transforms individuals and organisations, empowering people and giving them a fundamental understanding of the technologies behind the screen.
On a personal level, this freedom empowers individuals to question technology, disrupt it and dismantle it. It equips us and our children with the tools we need to interrogate and exploit the technological advancements that are being made every day, turning us from consumers to creators.
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