Presentation at metworks starts now…. New work, new themes in objects training
Assa@NESTA with Fiddian Warman and Rachel Coldicutt of Makers’ Guild July14
NESTA, 1 Plough Place London EC4A 1DE
Thursday, July 14, 2011 from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (GMT)
Register free at: http://makersguild.eventbrite.com/
Makers’ Guild: Supporting Personal Fabrication
Makers’ Guild is a new not-for-profit organisation, offering support for makers and personal fabricators.
Please join us for our ‘Launch Lunch’ on 14 July is an opportunity to hear some fascinating speakers, meet other makers and define what the Makers’ Guild can do for you.
Speakers include:
• Scott Burnham: writer, creative director and strategist for design and urban initiatives, working with cities, institutions and publications worldwide. http://scottburnham.com/bio/
• Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: product designer, entrepreneur, consultant, strategist and blogger on Internet of Things & Interaction design http://www.designswarm.com
• Assa Ashuach: designer, specialising in additive manufacturing and product customisation, founder of Digtal Foming ltd, Assa Ashuach studio and MA Design leader at London Metropolitan Uni http://www.assaashuach.com/
• Jonty Wareing, London Hackspace founder, http://jonty.co.uk/
• Jo Roach and Luke Petrie, MakieLab, http://www.makielab.com/
Marcus Bowerman of Metropolitan Works presenting their amazing facilities http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/metropolitanworks
Hardware demonstrations from Martin Stevens of http://www.a1-tech.co.uk
Makers’ Guild aims to:
• encourage knowledge and equipment sharing
• connect people with different skills
• be a forum for lobbying
• and a resource for legal, technical and business advice
Programme:
12:00: Welcome from NESTA and Fiddian Warman and Rachel Coldicutt, Makers’ Guild
12:10: Talks and Inspiration
12:40: Discussion – Shaping Makers’ Guild
13:15 Lunch and networking
14:00 Close
Assa@debate the Creative Industries KTN Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds 13July
Assa will be participating in a panel debate at the Creative Industries KTN Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds in london, Wednesday, 13 July 2011, media round table discussion. Please find attached the following pre-reading documents and the event details below.
1. Agenda
2. Discussion Theme Paper
3. Participant List
4. Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds Executive Summary
There will be hard copies of these documents available for your use on the day.
Please feel free to visit the Bridging the Digital and Physical Worlds page below on the Creative Industries KTN website:
https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/bridging-the-digital-and-physical-worlds
Date: Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Time: 09:30 – 12:30
(Registration and refreshments from 09:00, breakfast pastries will be served)
Venue: Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London W1B 1AD
Directions: http://www.architecture.com/TheRIBA/Visit66PortlandPlace.aspx
Room: Council Chamber Room
We look forward to welcoming you on the day. Have a lovely day.
Creative Industries KTN
Keynote and a debate at clerkenwell design week 2011
Join the debate at clerkenwell design week 2011.
For more info and location http://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/whats-on/time-table/
CDW Keynote: ‘New Design, New Making’. New directions in manufacturing and the designer/ maker relationship. With Nigel Coats , Assa Asshuach of ‘custom manufacture’ Thomas Thwaites (see Orangebox) + others
Debate chaird by design writer and curator Aidan Walker
ASSA KEYNOTE AT THE RSA – TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MANUFACTURE
For more about the debate at the: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/less-stuff,-more-performance,-better-fit
The RSA – combines thought leadership with social innovation to further human progress. Building on our 250 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, we undertake influential and varied research projects and host the UK’s most ambitious free lecture series.
80% AIR, ASSA EXHIBITION AT GALLERIA GRACIS MILANO, OPENING APRIL 12-17th
80% Air comes from the notion of ‘air’ as material, and air as a visual statmant of reduction and optimisation of both form and structure.
‘We want to keep these products virtual for as long as possible. It’s air until someone pays for it to be made’
I will be showing a collection of OPEN objcets, object you can shape modify and add from your personal set of valeus.
It is about you co designing with me. shape modufy, sleect your colour and send stright to production from the gallery space.
Your co designed objects will be sent to production at 3T RPD, my production partners in the UK. From there, it will be sent to your home within a two weeks…
Galleria Gracis are hosting the show
look for us at point 221 on the interin guide, Galleria Gracis
Gallery address: via S.Simpliciano 6 – 20121 Milano (off Corso Garibaldi and Via Pontaccio)
Opening event, 12th 17:00-21:00
Press event, 12th from 11:00
With many thanks to
3T RPD for the support in 3D printing and post procesing with a selection of beutifull coloures.
EOS, the german SLS machine manufactureing for thier support in material.
Metropolitan works, london’s digital production center in production and prototyping
Digital Forming ltd, the Co-creation/ presonalisation platform is powerd by the very cool Digital Forming technology 
Assa lemon Squeezer
Assa Open Pens…
Live from the gallery space…
Assa Keynote at the RSA – Twenty-first Century Manufacture
I will be giving a keynote at the RSA Design debate: Twenty-first Century Manufacture.
Debate curated by Emily Campbell, Director of Design
8 John Adam Street, London wc2, 6pm Thursday 24 March 2011
To book a free sit: http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events/less-stuff,-more-performance,-better-fit
The RSA – combines thought leadership with social innovation to further human progress. Building on our 250 year history as a beacon for enlightenment values, we undertake influential and varied research projects and host the UK’s most ambitious free lecture series.
The debate:
The new technologies of designing and manufacturing promise to reinvigorate local production and to put a rapid prototype, a custom object and a perfect-fit within the reach of millions who never called themselves a designer or craftsman. But do enough of us know enough design to transform this promise into a manufacturing renaissance? While these new ways of making advance the interests of commercial manufacturers and craft hobbyists, do they also answer a universal human need to fabricate?
Assa Asshuach presents a digital tool under development which allows anyone to specify 3-d objects within set design parameters. Designer Sebastian Conran, open innovation consultant Roland Harwood and additive manufacturing expert Neil Hopkinson join the panel discussion chaired by Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of a new RSA Design pamphlet The New Tin Ear: Materials, Manufacturing and the Rise of the User-Maker. The event is free but you need to
reserve a place at www.theRSA.org/events.
80% Air, assa exhibition at Galleria Gracis milano, opening Tuesday 15th
The new Bon Bon light is the first object to be shape modified / Co-designed by users in the gallery.
we will send the co-designed objects live from the gallery space to production using the digital forming® technology. Objects will be delivered to the users home within two weeks
Invited by Pier Giorgio and Luca Gracis of Galleria Gracis, the show will be open over the Asian Art Milano.
Located in the hart of the Brera district in Milano, is the beautiful Galleria Gracis, sits within a 50’s design by architect Luigi Vietti. The exhibition is set up in 200 sqm and will feature a selection of new objects together with some of Assa’s early work.
Privet view Tuesday 17-21:00 with invitation only
Show opening times: 10-13:00 15:00-19:00 monday saturday closing date 26 02 2011 (see contacts below)
During the Milan Salone in April, dates 11-17th we will open a show dedicated to the notion of ‘CO-design’ and the playing with objects. this is promised to be a genuine insight into something that was never bean seen before.
stay tuned for news about the april show in milan…
The new BonBon light, you co-design with me…
See the co-designed objects of the original next -
the BonBon light in the digital forming CODO app (co designed object)
Bon Bon light selected positions
the gallery…
80% Air – inside the gallery…
the bon bon light projected ready for personalisation in the 80% Air show space…
Contacts:
Galleria Gracis
di Pier Giorgio e Luca Gracis
via S.Simpliciano 6 – 20121 Milano
tel. +39 02 877 807
for more information please contact
London Art Fair 2011 with Connaught Brown gallery
London Art Fair – private
view today 18:00
I’ll be showing
some pieces with Connaught Brown gallery…
http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/
open 19th-23th January
Image of the 501
stool – I chopped the 501 chair’s back… something I wanted to do for a long time
next will be to have it in pink.
Lab Craft a new Crafts Council touring exhibition that previews at Tent London at London Design Festival from 23 to 26 September
Lab Craft: Digital adventures in contemporary craft is a new Crafts Council touring exhibition that previews at Tent London at London Design Festival from 23 to 26 September before launching at the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh, Greater Manchester, from 30 October to 18 December 2010.
The exhibition is curated by design commentator Max Fraser and designed by maker Tomoko Azumi and features textiles, ceramics, furniture, jewellery, glass, lighting and much more…
featured in Lab Craft are; 1234lab, Gary Allson, Assa Asshuach, Tomoko Azumi, Tord Boontje, Michael Eden and Geoffrey Mann among other influential designers in the field.
