Wired 2011 conference London October 13/14 – we will be presenting and demoing some products and technology
Find us at the wired conference this thursday around 14:30, we will be there all through the two days.
We will be also showing some technology and products at the ‘Test Lab’ by the end of the day jest befor the wired O2 party…
Follow the link http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-05/3/wired-2011-event
Assa Studio powered by Digital Forming at Innovate 11 conference and a one day show Tuesday 11,10,2011
We will be showing at the KTN TSB one-day innovate11 conference/show https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/innovate most of UK’s social design technology generators under one roof 
hope some of you can make it…
watch the event live at https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/innovate-11/watch-live
Assa Studio installation and Talk at the V&A this weekend 24-25th London design week
Dear friends,
Come to visit us at the V&A for an installation and a talk.
The installation will be taking place at the V&A Porter
Gallery, Sacker Centre and Garden as part of the LDF Digital Design
Weekend, curated by Irini Papadimitriou
Assa’s
talk at the V&A Power of Making space will take place on Saturday 24th at
13:00
Assa Ashuach
studio installation at the Porter Gallery:
We will show a selection of objects and processes powered by our
Digital Forming (DF) technology. Several PCs will be running the DF technology,
allowing guests to play, co-design and modify a new format of virtual designed
objects on screen.
This is an opportunity to learn more about our technology and
notions of design objects together with designing the objects as well as the
object’s 3D user experience.
Play
and Produce:
Randomly selected guests will be invited to 3D print their
co-designed object of the ‘Openpen’ at Metropolitan Works in London’s East End.
Guests will be invited for a tour of Metworks facility and to hand pick their
3D printed gift pens.
At the
V&A:
Opening: Sat 24th & Sun 25th Sept, 10.30 – 17.00
Talk: 24th at 13:00
Location: V&A, Porter Gallery, Sacker Centre and Garden
(Entrance from Exhibition
Road opposite the Science Museum)
With Many thanks to our
sponsors:
Some more
news:
Assa’s Keynote at the
RSA is now edited to a 15min and can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjoMap9O_KY
or at the RSA app if you have it…
Panel debate chaired
by Hugh Aldersey-Williams with Sebastian Conran,
Roland Harwood and Neil Hopkinson
Digital forming
ltd:
The main company focused is now on B2B while the UCODO
designer/user platform will be introduced at the a next phase, for the full
range of the DF software services please contact info@digitalforming.com
You can find
the DF team at the following coming events:
TCT Additive Manufacturing Conference, NEC Birmingham – 27th – 29th September 2011
TEDx Conference, Salzburg – 30th September 2011:
WIRED Conference, St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, London – 13th – 14th October 2011
Tokyo Designers Week, Japan – 6th November 2011:
TED Salon, London –10th November 2011
Bridging Mass Customization and Open Innovation – MCPC 2011, San Francisco – 16-19th November, 2011
Assa at Future Human – the theater of innovation presents Micro Manufacturing: Wednesday August 10, 2011 at The Book Club
Assa will be participating in a salon discussion at Future Human: Wednesday August 10, 2011 at The Book Club
read some below… here is a link http://www.futurehuman.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=3&products_id=17 please come…
Our next Future Human event is on August 10, subtitled Micro Manufacturing. Over the past 10 years the Internet has ripped power from governments, companies and other institutions and put it into the hands of normal people, turning passive consumers into socially networked producers. Over the next 10 years, we’re going to see digital economics upturn industrial production and the physical world of ‘things’, as emerging printing technologies and the distribution efficiencies of the Internet give individuals the power to challenge the giants of the manufacturing sector. Some might argue we’re already there, and that ‘making money from making’ has never been so straightforward. Pioneering websites like Etsy, Threadless, and Ponoko help designers turn their intellectual property into locally produced products that can be sold to a global community of consumers online. Yet up until recently, these websites focused on two-dimensionally printed or lasercut products like T-shirts, plates or flat pack furniture.
The advent of affordable 3D printers is having a profound effect on these business models, however, and offering would-be designers the scope to produce a panoply of products: plastic toys, furniture fixtures, electronic components – even finely crafted chocolates. All of these can be reproduced right now, using 3D design files supplied from anywhere in the world, with printing projects like RepRap and Makerbot lowering the economic barriers every year. Which companies and people are pioneering this shift, and how can ordinary people get involved? And will the Micro Manufacturing movement challenge and supplement the behemoths of global trade, or will it only ever be a niche concern?
Discussing these questions, as well as your own, will be three pioneering UK product designers.
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.
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.
