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Collaboration Cafe launch

admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:42:12 +0000

Launch of Collaboration Café, Building Centre, Store Street, London, 4 March, 6-9pm.

Open for business throughout March, the Collaboration Cafe forms the final component of research and development led by Slider Studio and supported by Edward Cullinan Architects, HTA, Make, Scott Brownrigg and University of East London.

Michael Kohn of Slider Studio will present a brief overview of the StickyWorld Collaborative Research and Development project and introduce the final stage of the research taking place throughout March, both in the café and online. The 18 month development of StickyWorld, a project review and exhibition platform for creative business and education, has been part funded by the Technology Strategy Board. This final month of the project opens up the collaboration between the six different organisations to invite wider engagement of the public and visitors to the Building Centre.

If you would like to attend, please book online here.

You can sign up for the beta programme at the StickyWorld website.

Patient Dignity

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:18:45 +0000

Slider Studio is working on designs to improve washrooms and toilets in existing hospitals in order to improve patient dignity and support productivity in wards. Working in collaboration with Azhar Architecture and manufacturer Grant Westfield our team has visited five different hospitals and studied typical design and operational problems in these areas. We have talked to patients and nurses about possible improvements, and will apply user-centred and democratic design thinking to devise appropriate environments fit for all users.

The project is sponsored by the Design Council and Department of Health. To learn more about the Design for Dignity Programme visit the Design Council website.

Community Collabitation

admin — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:28:54 +0000

Over the last six years, we have developed innovative housing ideas, using democratic design thinking, computational methodologies and techniques to develop the design. Europan 10 offered us an opportunity to tackle an urban extension site near Aarhus and Denmark, and to test our our enabled self procurement ideas (see esp-sim.org). Our team investigated an enabled construction process using prefebricated components assembled by the community working as a collaborative team along with professionals. The ultimate goal - to build a sustainable community that endures way after all construction has completed – is then achieved by effective engagement with early adopter community members at the design stage, using web 2.0 technologies and online virtual environments to visualise design outcomes, but continuously growing the community before during and after construction.

The homes we envisaged for the competition were to be designed through identification of common goals, and consensus as to the appropriate distribution of privately owned and shared space. All dwellings are gathered around a semi-public space shared between 3-4 house holds; private outdoor space is provided on top of roofs and public private terraces looked out onto the shared public realm. All the proposed dwellings are designed to passivhaus standards, flexible and extendable so that inhabitants can develop their homes over an extended period of time following a pattern book of extension options and ensuring the high performance construction is maintained.

StickyWorld 1.3.4

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:49:22 +0000

We have released StickyWorld version 1.3.4 to our collaboration partners. The new release includes many new features and improved look and feel. Sign up for the public beta on StickyWorld website or contact us to become an early adopter practice now.

Presentation at RIBA

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:00:26 +0000

Renee Puusepp presents the thinking and technology behind the award winning entry for the Nordhavnen harbour area competition at the London Design computing Community event (see more on www.design-computing.com). The presentation covers a brief introduction to the sitecapacity engine, explains how it was modified to meet the project-specific brief and helped the team to control the design process from initial ideas to submission.

Time: 16:30-17:00 (14:00 – 18:00), 10.12.2009
Venue: Wren Boardroom, RIBA (66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD)

YouCanPlan featured

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:25:51 +0000

Be2camp Web 2.0 showcase currently features our YouCanPlan methodology and software. YouCanPlan was originally funded by the UrbanBuzz programme and was subsequently developed further to meet the requirements of Birmingham City Council for public consultation in Lozells.

Generative design lecture

admin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:58:31 +0000

Practice director Renee Puusepp gives a lecture on generative design and situated systems at School of Architecture and Visual Arts in University of East London. He will present some of his research on agent-based systems for architecture and introduce the latest of Slider’s work. The lecture is open for everyone

Time 15:30, 10.11.2009

Venue: Main Lecture Theatre (Library building), Docklands, UEL

StickyWorld r 1.3.2

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:19:35 +0000

Our StickyWorld development team has made a controlled release of version 1.3.2 to our collaboration partners. The new release includes image quality improvements, new mark-up tools and lots of other new features. Sign up for the public beta on www.stickyworld.com

Democratic Design

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:41:57 +0000

Michael Kohn will present the practice’s latest thinking on democratic design at the the Be2Camp event on Wednesday 7th October at Olympia, London.

In particular he will talk about Slider’s recent projects and technologies under development, and how these align with a emerging possible democratisation of architectural services delivery, and also a growing expectation of society in general.

http://be2camp.ning.com/events/be2campworkingbuildings2009-1

3D in your browser

admin — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:42:28 +0000

We have finished another 3D web model for showing and comparing urban design options online. Our 3D web technology offers a lighter alternative to the more sophisticated YouCanPlan3D gaming engine, and it runs directly in your browser with no independent download and installation requirement.

Visit www.sliderstudio.co.uk/3dweb/urbandesign to see three urban design options. You can orbit, zoom in and pan the model, take a guided tour, compare models, and vote for your favourite design . The designs shown are representative of the urban design options prepared by Birmingham City Council Housing department for regneration in Lozells.

We will be developing new features and demos in due course. Please contact Renee Puusepp if you would like to discuss how this technology can help your projects.