Research and exploratory centers in architecture and digital fabrication in South America: manufacture strategies and the state of the art of production

• Grant number: 18/15517-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: December 01, 2018
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Architecture and Town Planning - Architecture and Urbanism Technology
• Agreement: Network of Italian Universities
• Principal Investigator: David Moreno Sperling
• Grantee: Rodrigo Scheeren
• Supervisor: Ingrid Paoletti
• Host Institution: Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo de São Carlos (IAU). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Associated to the scholarship: 17/04946-7 - Research centers in architecture and digital fabrication in South America: action strategies and the state of the art of production, BP.DR

Abstract

This summary project for an internship abroad aims to complement the ongoing research on digital fabrication applied to architecture and design. By understanding and analyzing the global context of applying advanced technologies, their impacts, and innovative capacity, it will be possible to understand how the local context is influenced by the appropriations of their strategies and technologies, and what kind of specificities emerge from our region's works. On the basis of monitoring activities in ActLab (PoliMi), procedures of technical assimilation with project experiments, in addition to case studies and interviews in several digital fabrication laboratories in Europe, we intend to obtain a privileged knowledge and substrate of qualitative information for comparative studies between the different contexts.