Flights of Fancy

“We believe in the possibility of an incalculable number of human transformations, and we say without smiling that wings sleep in the flesh of man”Â  — Multiplied Man and the Reign of the Machine (1911), Marinetti

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Industrial Improvisation

Chryssa Varna joined the Interactive Architecture Lab with an interest in bringing Dance and Architecture together. Her fascinating project between 2012-2013 brought together these two worlds through a series of kinetic installations the last of which “Industrial Improvisation” gathered a … Read More

Keynote – Ruairi Glynn @ Fascinate Conference 2013

I thought I’d share a Keynote that I gave a few months ago at the brilliantly well organised and ambitiously curated Fascinate Conference. My thanks to the guys in Falmouth for the invitation and for sharing the conference footage also.

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Reality Mediators

Featured in: Design Boom, The Creators Project, Dezeen, Wired, CNet, Protein, Fast Company, Trendhunter, Adafruit, Time & Space (Japan), PAGE magazine April 2014 issue

Exhibited in: Coded Matter(s) Exhibition by FIBER Festival

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The Lamp and the Glowworm

A week long project to bring an old lamp back to life. Ruairi Glynn, Mie Dinesen & Robin Skytte Jensen. Filmed at Euston Station, Exhibited at Oslo Lux and Scopitone Festival, Nantes.

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Smartgeometry

Smartgeometry is pleased to announce that sg2013 will be at The Bartlett in London from 15-20 April 2013. The four day Workshop (15-18 April) and two day conference (19-20 April) will follow the format of the highly successful preceding … Read More

Light Touch

Ruairi Glynn & Chryssa Varna of the Interactive Architecture Lab worked with Haptic Architects on the complex assembly of a temporary lobby installation to produce the subtle movements of light through the CNC-milled slats of black MDF. The space continually … Read More

Fabricate 2014

Organised by the Professorship for Architecture and Digital Fabrication of ETH Zurich in collaboration with the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, FABRICATE 2014 will bring together researchers and practitioners in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, … Read More

Fearful Symmetry at the Tate

Well I’ve finally found the time to edit the footage and pick out some images for my far to infrequent posts to this blog. The good news is that a complete overhaul is in progress with a whole new website … Read More

Motive Mythologies

This years Lab Research Theme is ‘Motive Mythologies’. Below is the brief handed out to students at the beginning of the year to stimulate responses. If you’re interested in studying with the Interactive Architecture Lab, you can find out more … Read More

Animating Architecture

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Fearful Symmetry

Tomorrow I go into the Tate Modern to install my new interactive work that has been a year in the making. That among other things is the reason this blog has been so quiet in recent times … Read More

Ant Ballet

This video was filmed in Barcelona in August 2011. It shows the first public testing of the Ant Ballet Machine. Using synthesised pheromones (Z9:16Ald Hexadecanol) and highly invasive Linepthinema humile Argentine ants, a robotic arm lays pheromone powder trails … Read More

The Godot Machine

The Godot Machine is a device which monitors and prevents the movement of a single ant. An ant sits atop a white globe, monitored from above by a camera. As the ant moves forwards, the sphere rotates backwards. As … Read More

FABRICATE Conference

FABRICATE Conference is coming up and the schedule if finalised. Here are all the keynotes, chair and speaker. I excited to say I think its going to be a great event. If you’re in London in April please do try … Read More

Constructing Realities

Image above - Alan Worn – Discordant folly encountered at daybreak, at the foot of the mountain

‘Constructing Realities’ is the summer exhibition at Arup’s Phase 2 Gallery presenting some of the best of London’s young graduate architecture students work. It … Read More

FABRICATE Conference Call for Work

I’m pleased to announce my new conference to be held in London in 2011 with Keynote Speakers (clockwise): Mark Burry, Matthias Kohler, Philip Beesley and Neri Oxman.

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Five copies of Digital Architecture to be won

Dezeen are running a competition to win copies of my recent book Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands.

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/06/10/competition-five-copies-of-digital-architecture-to-be-won

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