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SUMMARY:Bay Locality | The Future Matter: Technological innovation in architectural design and fabrication
DESCRIPTION:A conversation on how technological innovation in architectural design and fabrication creates new possibilities for architecture deeply rooted in place — examining the poetics of Bay Area locality through design\, material intelligence\, and advanced manufacturing. \nThemes to be covered:\nPoetics of Bay Locality The Bay Area’s wooden grain\, eroded coastlines\, fog\, and bay currents offer a sensory vocabulary rooted in climate\, culture\, and memory. Like tectonic strata\, these phenomena record forces\, light\, and time—creating opportunities for designs and architecture that resonate with regional character and environmental experience. \nTechnological Innovation as a Design Medium Digital fabrication using adaptive 3D-printed formwork to achieve real-time color gradients and multi-material fusions gives designers the ability to respond to place. These technologies allow form and fabrication to evolve together\, embedding local narratives and environmental sensitivities directly into the making process itself. \nEncoding Place Through Situated Making How materials carry the memory and character of a place—bay mud\, coastal fog\, wooden grain—and how advanced fabrication technologies encode these sensory phenomena directly into built form. New construction methods honor cultural heritage while transforming regional materials and environmental conditions into design intelligence. Computational design and robotic fabrication become tools for amplifying place-based identity rather than imposing universal standardization. \nSpeakers:\nModerated by Alexey Dubov — serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist at the intersection of construction technology\, robotics\, and the built environment. Co-founder of BuildTech VC and pioneering the 3D-printed housing startup Mighty Buildings. \n\nAndrei Hakhovich is principal designer and founder of Gradient Matter\, as well as co-founder of Echoes of Future Matter. Gradient Matter is a San Francisco-based multidisciplinary studio working across architecture\, public art\, interiors\, and bespoke objects. His practice brings together computational design\, fabrication\, and material research to explore new narratives\, spatial experiences\, and novel forms\, creating work that is poetic\, ecological\, and deeply sensorial.\n\n\nElena Dendiberia is principal designer of Studio AHEAD\, a San Francisco-based art and design collective co-founded with Homan Rajai. The studio’s approach is “borderless\,” with roots that are far-flung yet deeply embedded in regionality. Drawing from diasporic experience\, the studio holds that there is no universal idea of functionality that fits all cultures and people. What remains constant is an appreciation of tradition and craftsmanship.\n\nCraig Scott is founding partner of IwamotoScott Architecture\, a San Francisco-based practice known for treating fabrication\, material\, and surface as instruments of perception\, not just construction. The studio is internationally recognized\, working across art installations\, interiors\, buildings\, and speculative urban visions.\n\nJason Kelly Johnson is lead artist and co-founding partner of FUTUREFORMS\, bringing expertise in computational design and advanced digital fabrication\, produced through the lens of critical art practice and public space advocacy.\n\nNick Polansky is principal of NWP Art and Architecture\, a dual studio practice in San Francisco’s Mission District. With over 20 years of experience\, Nick cross-pollinates architecture\, art\, and urban design as one dialogue. His recent project Fjord\, a floating sauna experience in Sausalito\, ties together a fascination with repurposing and upcycling materials to transform waterfront access.\n\nEdward Mehr is co-founder and CEO of Machina Labs\, where robotics redefines traditional metal tooling with something closer to craft\, responsive\, intelligent\, and on-demand. His “Elastic Factory” vision reimagines industrial production not as fixed infrastructure\, but as a living\, adaptive system\, a factory that thinks.
URL:https://sfdesignweek.org/event/bay-locality-the-future-matter/
LOCATION:Diaspora Hub\, 221 11th\, San Francisco\, California\, 94110\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Echoes of Future Matter":MAILTO:andrei@gradientmatter.com
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