Back from the mountain

DHUB Sessions

This is a set of images I did as a campaign for a cycle of conferences organized by Design Hub Barcelona over different themes related with their ongoing exhibitions. The images where projected on the screens of the museum and inserted in the newsletter. The images present a variation of the graphic theme originally thought for “Laboratori de la Fabricació“

Entropica

Entropica is an interactive multimedia installation which I realized together with dpr-barcelona for the international architecture festival “eme3“, happening in barcelona in these days. The installations consists in a platform for augmented reality, a technology which can visualize a 3d model in a real scene thanks to a webcam reading a graphic code.

The installation warns us about how careful we should be in the moment of starting a building process, making us considering the irreversibility of our actions. At this purpose, the floor is covered with glasses and a caterpillar is visualized over them using augmented reality. The scene lies beside the spectator, who will find him or herself alone in the middle of the glasses, covering the role of the caterpillar, in the moment of stepping over the code generating the augmented reality.

Here are the concept of the installation (in spanish, english available here), a diagram explaining visually our idea and few photos of the happening:

Si tomamos conciencia que las transformaciones de materia y energía no son totalmente reversibles (están sujetas a la ley de la entropía), entenderemos cómo afectan a una economía y un sistema productivo basados en estas transformaciones. La situación económica presente no es mas que la consecuencia de un modelo de producción-acumulación-desecho que no puede seguir creciendo al mismo ritmo. La actividad constructiva es un buen indicador de la situación. La instalación quiere transmitir el concepto de irreversibilidad [entropía] ligado a la construcción.

Flags

Today I made this:

Laboratori de Fabricació

Laboratori de Fabricació is an ongoing exhibition hosted at Disseny Hub Barcelona, which started a month ago and will change its face many times till may of 2011.

Laboratori de Fabricació presents an analysis of the new 3D digital fabrication technologies that are leading to radical changes in design and production processes.

The expo is hosting an active digital fabrication laboratory, named DHUB FAB, which is a derivation of the original Fab Lab, and many other parallel activities.

The design process for the graphic suite of this exhibition started from a classical icon of the industrial design process: the production chain. This basic object assumes strange behaviors and evolves in the different applications on various graphic supports: it turns, it twists, it moves upside down, becoming a vague abstract representation of what it meant originally and reflecting the problems of industrial production in the era of digital fabrication.

In this post you can see how it all looked at the beginning

Here is what remains at the end of the whole design journey:

Photo Courtesy Oriol Rigat

Photo courtesy Oriol Rigat

Photo courtesy Oriol Rigat

An eye on the suburbs

Here are some of the picture I am shooting here in Barcelona during my journeys in the suburbs. I am trying to focus on the effect of public space seen from outside of the buildings it typically refers to. Collective space seen from a distance.

For a larger overview, please visit my flickr

Academic 5 – We have always lived in the castle

“We have always lived in the castle” is the project for a magazine which wants to be a source of inspiration for creative minds. The work was made together with Rita Lino

Here are few pictures