For my first post on openp2pdesign.org, I decided to announce you an event I’m organizing together with Dr. Teresa Baptista (Advisor of the Zoological Museum) and Prof. José Fernando Gonçalves (CEARQ Coordinator), the third edition of Arquibio (June 14-18, Coimbra, Portugal).
Arquibio is jointly organized by the Zoological Museum, University of Coimbra, Center for the Study of Architecture, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra (CEARQ) and collaborators linked to several European and American universities.
Even though it’s not a project born directly from openp2pdesign.org, we decided to put in our projects page as it fits with the Design for Complex Systems issue (and in this case, it’s about designing Complex Architectures learning from Complex Natural Systems).

Arquibio 2010 is a series of international lectures and workshops on topics connecting architecture and design with the “bio-logics”. It is intended that the lecturers and visiting scholars allow a consistent connection between current biological and architectural knowledge bringing light of recent technological advances.

The premise is that the fusion between biological and technological world is now a reality that cannot be ignored. Computers and robotics prove to be capable of releasing the architects and designers of a catalog architecture, based on still images, teaching us new fields of interaction in which complex processes similar to those that occur in nature, take center stage and allow a more consistent connection with the living environment.

The event consists of lectures and three workshops:

1. Bio-Modeling
   Introduction to develop biomorphic models using advance modeling software.
2. Bio-Parametrics
   Advance modeling and explicit programing of parametric and generative models. Production of design and architectonic genotypes.
3. Bio-Machining
   Processes of materialization with CNC machines, relating robotics with architecture and bionic design. Production of phenotypes or physical models.

The aim of its workshops is to study and practice how the complex scientific concepts provided by the observation of biological processes may be connected to architecture professional practice by the creative use of digital technologies. Rhino, Grasshopperand RhinoCAM will be the software used during the workshops.

You can still register for it and attend the workshops and the conference here.

See you there!