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to their needs and ideas, free from any paternalism by a chel Wingfield, to form a new creative practice that reaches beyond specialist boundaries, mediating between master builder.’ (Yona Friedman) digital & biological media and facilitating participatory The workshop will combine a parametric design process environments and urban crafts. with a hands-on crafting technique to create an ephemeral, spatial installation designed and fabricated by work- Loop.pH are internationally recognized for the design and fabrication of ephemeral textile architecture and livshop participants. ing environments. They create urban utopias informed Lace-making together with strong composite and smart by ecologically based parametric design and principles fibres will be introduced as a method to craft space and of community engagement. The studio operates on the reflect on the materiality and fabrication processes within convergence between biology, ecology, architecture and the architectural practice. Textile principles from weav- design. Through intervention based work they create living, crossing and twisting fibres to folding, bending and ing environments, synthesising living materials and digiseaming will be used as a model for experimental space tal tools, and proposing an emerging new role for designers and artists working at an urban scale. crafting. Participants will be parametrically designing continuous surface topologies and membranes using Rhino/Grasshopper and translating these digital drawings into plans for an Archilace fabrication process. Weaving composite textile structures allows for virtually any imaginable surface to be created from a small number of parts. Recently discovered structures that were previously unbuildable can be fabricated by hand using a textile, curvilinear approach - breaking the rectilinear geometry of our built environment with a non-Euclidean geometry made from curved structural elements tangentially joined. Studio Loop.pH Loop.pH is a London based art and design studio intervening at an urban scale to re-imagine life in the city. The studio was founded in 2003 by Mathias Gmachl and Ra-
The studio explores the role of art and design in public space and society, and consults on creative strategies and future scoping for industry, start-ups and the public sector, with hospitals, schools and regeneration agencies all commissioning their work. Their artwork can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NY, the V&A Museum, London and Lord Norman Fosters Private Art Collection, Geneva. http://Loop.pH