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Smart Customization Seminar 2008

The MIT Smart Customization Seminar 2008 (10-11 nov) is an in-depth coverage of one of today’s most important business trends. It is open to a distinguished group of professionals from diverse industries working on, implementing, or considering mass customization and personalization strategies and technologies. In addition, a small group of pre-eminent scholars will share leading-edge research on issues of importance and practicality to mass customization professionals.

Mass customization today is emerging from a pilot stage into a scalable and sustainable business strategy. We recently have seen a strong increase in investments and success stories of companies doing mass customization on a larger scale. The objective of the 2008 seminar is to take an intensive look at the success factors and how to do it aspects of mass customization and personalization.

Location: The MIT Faculty Club Cambridge, MA

Source: MIT

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Sgraffito in 3D

Voor het eerst zijn 3D-reconstructietechnieken uit de industriële wereld losgelaten op museumstukken. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presenteert (25 okt 2008-4 jan 2009) zijn prachtige verzameling sgraffito-aardewerk uit de collectie Van Beuningen-De Vriese op wel heel bijzondere wijze. Kunstenaar Joachim Rotteveel ontwikkelde een nieuwe manier om het aardewerk te scannen (MRI Scan), archiveren en driedimensionaal te printen.

De tentoonstelling maakt de archeologische collectie zo op spectaculaire wijze toegankelijk. Sgraffito in 3D wordt getoond in het vernieuwde entreegebied van het museum, dat voor iedereen gratis te bezoeken is. 

Source: Boijmans Van Beuningen

Exhibition 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo: Second Nature

The exhibition Second Nature offers an opportunity to once again ponder the future of design as well as the mysterious powers of nature which transcend the limits of human imagination. Tokujin Yoshioka, the director of the exhibition, has attempted to incorporate in his own design work the many laws that exist in nature, while at the same time exploring the possibilities of technology. His works do not merely remind people of the natural world on a visual level or imitate the more apparent manifestations of the laws of nature. Rather, by using technology as well as his own ideas as a kind of sustenance, he creates new forms of nature, in a process that results in what might best be described as a second nature. Rooted in this mindset, this exhibition presents the experimental works of eight groups of creators, including Tokujin Yoshioka himself. The exhibition also presents a cloud-like installation that envelop the exhibit space.

Source: Ponoko blog