The Trainer Workshops are a 3 days intensive programme to train experts that will be teachers in the students programs and get them familiar with concepts belonging to other disciplines. This trainer’s workshop will support a Semester Student programme, on biotechnology, design for urban resilience and business through inter/ transdisciplinary approaches.
The second Trainer Workshop, Living Design Trainers Workshop, took place on the 03rd, 04th and 05th of April in Barcelona, Spain. Living Design Trainers Workshop aimd at providing partners coming from the field of biology and business with the basic learning about Intelligent Design concepts and courses set-up, in order to allow them to face the transdisciplinary students programs.
Download the programme here.
Materials
PDF1 – “Trainers workshop Case-Study Spark of nature- Introduction” Plant-e
PDF2 – “Trainers workshop Case-Study Spark of nature” Plant-e
PDF3 – “Biophotovoltaic elements seminar and IAAC living solutions” IAAC
PDF4 – “Start-Up & Accelerator Programme” City Facilitators
PDF5 – “NBS case studies” IAAC
PDF6 – “Intelligent Design Education” IAAC
PDF7 – “Intelligent Design: Responsive Architecture, Materials and Performance” IAAC
Videos
Check out the video streaming of the event here.
Check out the feedback from the participants in the following links:
- Living Design Trainers’ Workshop: Feedback from Martin Petersen (GreenTech Challenge)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq9xUvwxWdQ - Living Design Trainers’ Workshop: Feedback from Luise Noring (City Facilitators)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6jFyUnylLI - Living Design Trainers’ Workshop: Feedback from Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Academic Director)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbO8gfPtHxA - Living Design Trainers’ Workshop: Feedback from Aishwarya Krishnan (University of Vienna, WU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH1le8PdDiQ
Feedback from Trainers: Living Design Workshop
“My impression is that the workshop has been very positive and fruitful for all partners. Trying to understand each one from their point of view, and background, how we can put together our complementary skills in order to create something new, this is the most exciting part. I also feel that all three days has been a great opportunity for everybody to learn from the rest and also reflect on how we are thinking the idea of intelligent design in our discipline. I’m really looking forward to our next steps or our common activities and our next meeting in Vienna.”
“I’m very grateful to IAAC and all the other BUILD partners for these three last days that have been extremely productive. I think it’s been an important team-building exercise and I think that we all came with different expectations and we’re seeing things from our own disciplinary background and so it’s been exciting to try to create the interfaces and establish some kind of common language and also align expectations, to the largest extent I think we have succeeded in this.”
“It was very nice to be here in Barcelona to share ideas with all the colleagues from different disciplines. I was very impressed by the campus and I think it’s a very nice place to work and to be creative and to have some new ideas. Now the idea of the project for an architect point of view is more comprehensive for me and that’s very important.”
“I particularly like the fact that we saw the immersive learning experience that IAAC has started as a master this year and of course connecting with all the bright brains and seeing how they wanted to help students build more intelligent and living cities. It has been a great experience.”
“I really enjoyed this workshop especially because I discovered how the IAAC architecture students could be very inspiring.”
“In this workshop we did a practical approach. We did a Plant-e Sprout ‘n Spark! So everybody learn how to create electricity from plants.”
“We come here to IAAC with different cultures, different knowledge backgrounds. This workshops has been very rich, providing very innovative and creative ideas that will help to set up BUILD project.”
“It was very interesting to get to know more about the work of IAAC, so we went through the lab and to see all the materials they’re using and the 3d printers and other virtual reality tools. We also saw hands-on work, students were in the laboratory working. We also went to Valldaura where students are living for one year creating solutions it’s really incredible.”
“It has been an absolutely amazing time to see of how an institution can develop and be holistic and see a very innovative way of learning and teaching and how that actually embeds itself into the city. It is a very successful approach. I’m grateful to have been here, and being able to see it.”
“I learnt that nature has always been a source of inspiration for architects. For example we saw how Gaudi was inspired by nature when he designed La Sagrada Familia. And currently architects still inspired by nature, not only by its form and beauty but also by the way nature reacts, behaves, and performs. For example creating facades that capture CO2 or that respond to human presence.”
Living Design Trainers
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