
This year, FABRICATE 2024 calls for radical departures in architectural design and production and offers a chance to reflect upon how, and for whom, we design. Collectively, we stand at a juncture where conventional methods of resource acquisition and industrial production are recognized as primary contributors to ecological disruption. New research-led approaches for responsible fabrication and production are required to rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment.
For FABRICATE 2024 the focus will be on the following questions:
- What is the future of fabrication in a resource challenged world?
- How might one rethink the role of computation to reshape fabrication in response to new resource streams, waste upcycling, novel renewables and challenged supply chains?
- What are the methods and tools that can effect these changes?
- What are the scales of change needed and how does one address the ethical implications of building fabrication culture as a globalized practice?
FABRICATE is an international peer-reviewed conference with supporting publication on the theme of Digital Fabrication. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE brings together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.
Key Note Speakers:
- Anders Lendager: An architect, creative director and founder of Lendager. His company has established itself as a front runner and one of the most influential architecture studios and strategic consultancies working within sustainability and circular economy.
- Anna Dyson: Hines Professor of Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) and Environment (YSE). She is the founding Director of the Yale Center for Ecosystems in Architecture (Yale CEA), a research initiative that integrates interdisciplinary labs across campus to collaborate on the research, development and deployment of novel architectural systems that are focused on the challenge of metabolizing energy, water and materials within architecture in radically new ways.
- Indy Johar: Co-founder of darkmatterlabs.org and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00. He is focused on the strategic design of new super scale civic assets for transition – specifically at the intersection of financing, contracting and governance for deeply democratic futures.
- Zhu Pei: Founded the Studio Zhu Pei in Beijing in 2005. His works have been exhibited at world renowned museums and exhibitions including MoMA, the Venice Biennial, GA Gallery, Centre Pompidou, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.