Full video of the DLD Conference on the Future of Organic Design can be seen online or downloaded at ForaTV.

As Paola Antonelli said, organic design «throughout history took so many different dimensions and nuances. The very simple imitation of nature is something that has moved mankind from the very beginning. Design has existed ever since people were ever able to actually manufacture tools, and nature has been the greatest teacher for craftsmen, makers. [...]
There is a very close relation between the learning from nature and technology. And the group that we have here today is really strong exactly in this: using technology in the most sophisticated way possible to get closest to what nature can teach us; which is not only form [...]»

See also the video summary “Monday, Day 2, afternoon panels summary” on DLD page: http://www.dld-conference.com

The MarsCruiserOne video by Architecture and Vision has been nominated in the Industry sector of the Imagina 2009 Award, in the section Best Industrial Design.

Imagina Awards aims at recognizing and rewarding the very best use of 3D modelling, simulation andvisualisation applied to a particular sector, whether it be artistic, industrial or engineering related.

Architecture and Vision | from Pyramids to Spacecraft
travelling exhibition
Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, March 11-24, 2009
Swissnex, San Francisco, April 30 – May 20, 2009

Opening on March 11, 2009, at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, From Pyramids to Spacecraft is a travelling exhibition displaying selected projects by AV.
This is the first exhibition entirely dedicated to the work of AV.

Projects and models on display include the tent for extreme environment DesertSeal, the habitable rover for space missions MarsCruiserOne , the inflatable laboratory MoonBaseTwo, and the habitable mobile lounge MercuryHouseOne.

A catalogue will be published with a foreword by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, New York. The catalogue will present the vision and designs of the studio, and considerations on the team’s work by other architects, designers, scientists and critics.

Paola Antonelli will give a speech at the exhibition opening in Chicago March 11, 2009, and Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will present their work.

After Chicago, the exhibition will be displayed at Swissnex in San Francisco, opening April 30, 2009.

Visit the exhibition website

The Future of Organic Design
DLD Conference
Munich, Germany, January 26, 2009, 3.00 pm

Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will speak on “The Future of Organic Design”, with Ross Lovegrove, at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design), on January 26, 3.00 pm.
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, will moderate the panel.

For additional information see the program of the DLD sessions, now online.

ORD CampUIC Innovation Center, Chicago, USA, January 30-31, 2009Arturo Vittori has been invited at the ORD Camp, the gathering underwritten by Inventables and Google, that will be hosted at the new UIC Innovation Center in Chicago on Friday and Saturday, January 30-31, 2009.Inspired by Foo Camp in California, of which it will borrow the format, this first ORD Camp will see 100 leading technology thinkers giving talks and share their work and thinking to cross-fertilize ideas, exploring topics that transcend traditional boundaries.