LAB presents lecture to SOM BlackBox studio
The LAB presented a lecture to SOM’s BlackBox studio, a studio within SOM using scripting and the linking of data with form-finding algorithms to develop more rigorous approaches to design. Check out some of their work here .
LAB Lecture at the AIANYC on May 11th
LAB Lecture at the AIANYC on May 11th Speakers: James Tichenor and Joshua Walton – New Media Leads at LAB at Rockwell Group For the past 3 years, the Rockwell Group LAB has been building a number of projects that explore the intersection between the physical and virtual through interactive environments. As they look back through these projects, they will discuss how their technology, methodology of prototyping and learning-through-making drive their design decisions, as well as where they see new opportunities for experiences and experimentation. The LAB is Rockwell Group’s digital interaction design team. The ambition of the LAB is to explore, experiment, and demonstrate interactive experience augmented with digital technology in objects, environments and stories. This activity includes: in house design and creation of interactive environments/objects, scripting software, science and technology consultation, and maintaining networks of technology solution providers. Their toolkit includes working with custom hardware and software for RFID, UPC scanning, video processing, sonar, capacitance, shape memory alloy, LED and lighting technologies, wireless communications, and screen based dynamically composited animation. The LAB embeds sensing and reactive technologies into things and places to create narratives that give people deeper and more valuable experiences. Date: Tuesday, May 11th, 2009 Time: 6:00pm to 8:00pm ET Location: Center for Architecture. 536 LaGuardia Place (Between Bleecker and W.3rd Street), Main Lecture Hall (Lower Level), NYC Transportation: 6/F Trains to Bleecker St./BWay-Lafayette (Walk 3 blocks West+1 block North) N,R Trains to Prince St (Walk 2 blocks West+2 blocks North) A/C/E/F Trains to W4th St (Walk 3 blocks East+1 block South) PLEASE NOTE: SEATING FOR THIS EVENT IS LIMITED. YOU MUST RSVP (ehatfield@thorntontomasetti.com) IN ORDER TO ATTEND. Admission: FREE
Interior Design Magazine Publishes Mauboussin kaleidoscope
Interior Design Magazine Publishes Mauboussin kaleidoscope both online and print (April 2009) with pictures . A U.S. flagship for Mauboussin. Rockwell was intrigued by the 182-year-old French jeweler’s commitment to the visual and culinary arts, which translated into a multidisciplinary brief for a combination shop, patisserie, and event space….At night, the building itself transforms into a sculpture, as a kaleidoscopic loop of Mauboussin baubles is rear-projected onto shades covering the windows. “I may not subscribe to retail therapy,” Rockwell says. “But window-shopping I love.”
Tucker judges Northwest Design Invitational 09 Awards (NWDI 09)
The Northwest Design Invitational is a biennial competition, recognizing outstanding design since 1988. Entries are evaluated according to the competition’s five criteria of excellence: design innovation, user benefits, market benefits, ecological responsibility and appropriate aesthetics.
Expert jurors will judge all entries in the competitive categories and include Tucker Viemeister, lab chief of Rockwell Group, Tom Dair, president of Smart Design USA and John Lonczak, director of Phi-d. “NWDI 09 offers industrial designers and students throughout the northwest community an opportunity to come together, learn, connect and share the latest in proper utilization of innovation, usability, responsibility, aesthetics for improved marketability,” said juror?. “Invitationals, like NWDI 09, are vitally important for us to excel as designers and assist in providing outstanding products and concepts for improved environments and economics.”
New Yorkers come see Joshua and James speak April 3 at Parsons’ AFTERTASTE 3 conference
Joshua and James will be presenting the work of the LAB at Rockwell Group at AFTERTASTE 3 the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design. The conference runs April 3 & 4, 2009 but the LAB will be seen on friday April 3rd 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm presenting as part of a discussion on Sights: Environments and Projections.
AFTERTASTE 3 the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design, intends to provoke a discussion about the richness of the senses and their role in the comprehension of space and inhabitation. Experimental in character, this conference aims to consider projects and ideas that stem from investigations into the workings of the senses.
Writer Georges Perec famously urged us to imagine separate rooms for taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch, yet one might also inversely challenge the primacy of visual perception by bringing the more peripheral and intertwined aspects of sensory experience into focus.
AFTERTASTE 3 will feature accomplished designers, architects, and artists whose work specifically addresses the complex and still relatively unexplored role of sentient perception in the imagining of interiors.
New Yorkers come see Joshua and James speak April 3 at Parsons' AFTERTASTE 3 conference
Joshua and James will be presenting the work of the LAB at Rockwell Group at AFTERTASTE 3 the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design. The conference runs April 3 & 4, 2009 but the LAB will be seen on friday April 3rd 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm presenting as part of a discussion on Sights: Environments and Projections.
AFTERTASTE 3 the annual international symposium dedicated to the critical review of Interior Design, intends to provoke a discussion about the richness of the senses and their role in the comprehension of space and inhabitation. Experimental in character, this conference aims to consider projects and ideas that stem from investigations into the workings of the senses.
Writer Georges Perec famously urged us to imagine separate rooms for taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch, yet one might also inversely challenge the primacy of visual perception by bringing the more peripheral and intertwined aspects of sensory experience into focus.
AFTERTASTE 3 will feature accomplished designers, architects, and artists whose work specifically addresses the complex and still relatively unexplored role of sentient perception in the imagining of interiors.
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