The consortium created for ARE[A]SIDENCY is a 3 parties collaboration across Europe in 3 main countries collaborating with other experts all around Europe forming a second circle of partners.
ARE[A]SIDENCY is a collaborative residency program to accelerate European talents in art, architecture and design hybridizing technologies from AEC, AI, neurodesign, cobotics and robotics and additive manufacturing.
As being a collaboration of 3 main institutional partners from France (Paris), Austria (Linz) and Spain (Barcelona) who aggregate their complementary strengths in order to nurture and promote emergent ways of creating as an integration of cutting-edge technological tools inside the design process, ARE[A]SIDENCY provides cross-disciplinary researchers, engineers, architects, designers, artists but also entrepreneurship counsellors in strategy, business, legal matters, to guide and accelerate young and emerging talents towards innovating business models in the realm of creation and culture.
Our common vision is to adapt to an emerging post-digital context and nurture collaborative creative processes integrating all innovative technologies to create art, architecture and design for tomorrow’s public. In such a way, emerging abilities are the outcome of an experimental path for the residents amongst Universities, Fablabs, Incubators, Art centers, selected all around Europe for their complementarity.
PARIS, FRANCE
COMMUNE IMAGE MEDIA - Fabrique de Cinéma
At the gates of Paris, Commune Image is a “new generation” Film and Virtual Reality Factory.
Hotspot for independent filmmaking provided with a fully integrated postproduction la.
We host and facilitate a community of 40 creators (screenwriters, directors, producers,
entrepreneurs, technicians, distributors and broadcasters).
From the original idea to the first screening, we create the conditions for the
most ambitious projects to come to life.
Commune Image’s VR Lab is an innovation showcase that falls within an approach of VR access’ democratization. It is therefore destined to be regularly open to the public to present an exclusive set of VR creations handled by resident experts. It will also come as a support tool to
Commune Image’s residents by providing infrastructures that are essential to the success and growth of their projects. The VR Lab is a hybrid and adjustable space fiercely oriented toward new imaging technologies.
We can handle all steps of film production’s workflows from shooting to final delivery. Our postproduction lab is provided with ten rooms dedicated to sound and image editing, color grading, mixing, VFX as well as a 4K screening room with a capacity of 150 seats available to all film and audiovisual professionals. We create the conditions that allow the most ambitious projects to come to life being a feature film selected by a Class A festival, a creative documentary or an immersive experience.
Our Interest in ARE[A]SIDENCY acceleration program is to explore robotic and digital processes in the fields of art, design and architecture as complementary fields of filmmaking. Commune Image Media will support the curated program offering technological means and resources for an informative documentary about this post-digital revolution and following the resident's circulation in all European countries and in contact with the main actors of this revolution.
AREA INSTITUTE
Area Institute is a new non-profit based association. It aims, in France and abroad, at a trans-
disciplinary teaching and experimentation of emerging topics in arts, design, architecture,
fabrication, construction, as well as cultural activities of communication (exhibitions,
workshops, conferences, ...), editing and research related to these topics.
As an independent structure emanating from AREA-Applied Research (founded 2015),
AREA has built links to international universities and institutions active in the fields of
architecture, design and art who are in a way or another creating and producing new works
through an understanding of robotics and computation. It is reactive, forward thinking, flexible and dynamic. AREA regularly curates inside the AA[n+1] Art Gallery space in order to communicate about those innovative technologies and cutting-edge creative processes. AREA Scientific Comite brings together experts of international reputation.
AREA Institute organisation is two-fold and combines two complementary structures- The Institute –A non-profit organisation for Curating Creative Design & Architecture, and The Accelerator - To support develop and promote Products & Services in AEC.
Based in Paris, Area is also present on the European and international scene of cultural and academic institutions, as well as the building industry, throughout its core members, scientific board, experts and partners. by bridging and curating dynamics in technologies, design, fabrication and construction, Area aims at promoting and accelerating innovating ideas and autonomy of young creatives, researchers and entrepreneurs. Amongst Area’s team are strong influencers, institutional and industrial leaders such as Frederic Migayrou, adjunct director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Pompidou in Paris and Chair at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture, Nassim Saoud director of Gehry Technologies Trimble Europe & Middle East, Thomas le Diouron founder and managing partner at Impulse Partners.
AREA Institute diffuses and transfers knowledge, training young designers and artists with innovative technological tools but also to inform a broader audience to this digital revolution naming art amateurs, Master students as much as children in thematic workshops.
Exhibitions, Round-table, Conferences, contribute to disseminate R&D in creative fields as architecture, design and arts.
Kidz@tech workshops cycle stimulates curiosity and creativity from the youngest audience, curated exhibition cycles (such as Drawbot 2017-2018) question trans-disciplinarity in grouping artists and architects works of art on a specific integrated digital technology.
Bartlett Plexus Paris explores the most innovative research in a conference cycle broadcasted and communicated on web platforms since it started in Paris in 2016 after being launched in London by the Bartlett school/UCL.
Locally and regionally inserted, AREA Institute benefits from its geographical situation in Paris “Silicon Sentier” where new business models emerge from innovative incubators (Numa) and Hackerspaces (La Paillasse). Besides, in a near future (2019), a 3 500m2 Fablab & Incubator for innovative industrialization will complete AREA’s resources in Nanterre/Grand-Paris with La Fabrique Numérique, a project from Impulse-Partners and AREA. Their start-ups will develop new means of fabrication such as robotic processes, additive manufacturing, simulation, automation, etc.
LINZ, AUSTRIA
KUNST UNIVERSITÄT LINZ
The Creative Robotics group is set up around the Department of Creative Robotics (CR) at
the University for Arts and Design Linz (UFG), led by Prof. Johannes Braumann.
The main collaboration partners are the university, the Association for Robots in Architecture,
the Grand Garage innovation space, and KUKA Robotics CEE. As part of the
Creative Europe project, the Creative Robotics group will be represented by UFG, however the
affiliated partners will also contribute their facilities, know-how, and expertise.
CR is located in Linz, which considers itself to be the “City of Media Art”, while also having a rich,
industrial background with many engineering companies in and around town. This makes UFG
an ideal venue towards merging art and technology.
In 2014, UFG-Department of Creative Robotics set up one of the first robot labs that integrates industrial robots within a wide spectrum of creative studies, from architecture and industrial design, to sculpture, ceramics, digital media, interface cultures,
and fashion and technology. Thus, rather than using the robot exclusively as a production tool, the robots are considered to be interfaces that negotiate between the digital and physical environments. The focus of CR is to facilitate a knowledge transfer that opens robotic arms as creative interfaces to the creative industry, as well as craftsmen and SMEs from different fields. Towards that goal, the department has worked intensively with external partners, realizing creative robotic installations with visual and media artists at various Ars Electronica Festivals, implementing innovative 3D-printed products by Bernstein Innovation into robotic processes, introducing robotic arms to the last Austrian saddle-making company, and collaborating with partners like KUKA, Creative Region, Keba, COPA-DATA, and B&R on innovative projects. Together with the Ars Electronica Center, CR is also offering creative workshops to primary school and secondary school students, as well as jobless youths through the Zukunftsfabrik project, where particpants use the electronic building blocks littleBits to create their own robot controllers.
Thus, CR tries to engage people of all different age and social groups, from school children to students up to professionals and SMEs. CR also aims to support individuals and in particular students who want to create robotic startups. So far, Benjamin Greimel has received more than 70k EUR for his start-up Print-a-Drink, and Stefan Everwin was recently also awarded a similar sum for “digitizing” his industrial design practice by purchasing a robot.
Prof. Johannes Braumann is head of CR and principal researcher. An architect by education, he brings along 10 years of experience with robotic fabrication and is the main developer of KUKA| prc, an accessible robot programming tool that is now used by more then 100 universities and 50 companies worldwide, from small scale creative offices to international corporations like Adidas, Boeing and Zueblin Timber. Johannes has been principal researcher on various nationally and EU- funded projects, such as AROSU, which developed robotic stone chiseling technologies for a Bavarian stone masonry company. As vice-president of the Association for Robots in Architecture he is internationally linked with all major commercial and academic players and highly engaged as reviewer in the scientific community.
He is joined by Maria Smigielska, a graduate of ETH Zurich who is developing highly innovative robotic cold-forming technologies, building upon her deep knowledge of robotics, geometry, and machine learning. Maria has realized numerous commercial and artistic projects using her custom technology and distributed that knowledge through a series of knowledge to the community. She is currently working on bringing this technology directly to the end-user.
LINZ, AUSTRIA
BARCELONA, SPAIN
IAAC - Institute for advanced architecture of Catalonia
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a center for research,
education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our
society and building it in the present.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro
-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture
and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and
experiential centre where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real
solutions.
IAAC is open, independent and radical; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
IAAC, beyond its educational and pro-research work, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural stable community that seeks permanent contact and cooperation among the hundreds of teachers, researchers, institutions and companies that have worked with us or that pursue the objective of providing solutions to the great challenges of humanity.
IAAC is Education, with the Master in Advanced Architecture, the Master in City & Technology, the Master in Advanced Interaction, the Open Thesis Fabrication program, giving the next generation of architects and change-makers the space to imagine, test and shape the future of cities, architecture and technology. This is also possible through the Fab Academy, a distributed educational model aiming to introduce anyone to Digital Fabrication. Not to mention the workshops and the short programs, implementing global agendas developed through local solutions, such as the Global Summer School.
IAAC is Fabrication, with the Fab Lab Barcelona, the first and most advanced digital production laboratory in EU, and the Green Fab Lab, the first digital fabrication laboratory geared towards self-sufficiency: two places where you can build almost anything. After hosting the FAB10 in 2014, the 10th annual worldwide Fab Lab conference, Fab Lab Barcelona has consolidated its role within the Fab Lab Network as one of the worldwide leaders of the Digital Fabrication Revolution as well as the Coordinator of the Fab Academy Program.
IAAC is Research, thanks to a series of projects and research funded by the European Union and developed in collaboration with public and private partners from the whole of Europe, oriented towards exploring the role of technology in our societies and cities, and making sense of it.
IAAC is Outreach, through lectures, publications, exhibitions and competition. Thanks to initiatives like the IAAC Lecture Series, or the Advanced Architecture Contest, IAAC promotes its values in the discussion about architecture, cities, society and technology, nowadays facing worldwide challenges.
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