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.
keynote speech – FAST FORWARD, Innovation in digital product design and manufacture – may 27th
may 27th – London Clerkenwell Design Week, keynote speech:
FAST FORWARD- Innovation in digital product design and manufacture
Leading international designer Assa Ashuach presents a dynamic keynote speech on advances and innovation in digital product design and manufacture, which are set to transform the relationship between designer and client. Assa is one of the driving forces behind Digital Forming, whose revolutionary new technology was unveiled last autumn at the Science Museum.
for more visit http://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com/may-27th
Assa talk at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment in london 11th march 2010
Home Ripples – passive exchange, trade & live in dynamic
city units.
The city as a communication neuro-network with layers of communication,
builders, consumers and the ‘passive’ forces.
Assa will give a talk about the future home in a
contemporary fast evolving city at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built
Environment in London 11th march 2010
Image from ‘State of consonance’, with composer Avshalom Caspi see www.avshalomcaspi.com
‘State of consonance’ the future state of Ütopya
Assa Ashuach “My Trousers” on RTL TV
Assa Ashuach “My Trousers” project. these trousers are sitable trousers that you can walk and sit with. Part of the London CAS Art & Design Collection. for more http://assaashuach.com/#my-sitable-trousers/0
ME & MY to WE & US – A Paradigm Shift, keynote Speaker at Conference 3D+Time in Tel Aviv
Assa will give a key note presentation titled: ME & MY to WE & US – A Paradigm Shift in Tel Aviv, feb 17th
Using our Digital Forming® technology we are offering a
genuine positive change.There is no middle man anymore; with our Digital Forming®
technology designers can connect to home users directly from their
desktop.”
We offer Co designers the opportunity to shift from being
‘consumers’ to partners. By co designing users have the opportunity to add
their personal values to their daily products
I see this is a real opportunity for designers to connect
directly to users. The scenario has changed; young designers are mainly
recruited by large brands for internal design positions. The ‘free’ independent
designer signature has a lower distribution and impact today. With our Digital
Forming® technology designers can connect to home users directly from their
desktop.
please follow
the link for more info.
The talk will focus on Assa latest research in embedded 3D and online
interactive product development. Assa will introduce some ground braking scenarios
in CO Design and the notion of ‘OPEN software products’. New scenarios of local
manufacturing networks will be explored.
A preview of the www.UCODO.com
products 3D customisation and the Digital
Forming® technology will follow after an intro to the team and the two new UK companies
Assa is invited to give a workshop at the Shankar school of Art Media &
Design in Tel Aviv Feb 14th-18th
keynote speech ‘Creating The Future’ at London Metropolitan, Feb 10th
Leading international designer Assa Ashuach presents a dynamic keynote speech on the latest advances and innovations in digital product design and manufacture.
Assa is one of the driving forces behind Digital Forming®, whose revolutionary new technology, unveiled last autumn at the Science
Museum, allow anyone to co-design or at least personalise household products prior to their one-off manufacture. The website where this will www.UCODO.com goes live this year.
Assa explains ‘ Digital forming was set up to democratise the personalisation of everyday products. As customers gradually demand greater freedom of choice, designers and brands are faced with new challenges in product diversity, responding through innovative product assembly strategies. This is genuine co-creation but we don’t intend to put designers out of business- we believe that while designers will still do 90 per cent of the work with consumers could add their 10 per cent to make the object their own. Who knows one day every home may have the technology to customise and manufacture their own household items?
The revolution starts here.’
‘ I see this is a real opportunity for designers to connect directly to users. the scenario has changed, young designers are mainly recruited by large brands for internal design positions. The ‘free’ independent designer signature has a lower distribution and impact today. With our Digital Forming® technology designers can connect to home users directly from their desktop.’
Words, Michael Upton, Comunication director of the London Metropolitan Art, Media & Design http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/jcamd/
