Research exhibition "Demonstrators" - Deliverable 5.1 (The Innochain Network Journal #5)

Show-casing material research results and reporting in journal form of first shared colloquium. The research exhibition “Demonstrators” focuses on proof-of-concept testing design criteria in direct spatial manners.

The Innochain Network Journal #5

This fifth and final edition of the Innochain Journals presents the culminating events of Innochain: the Innochain exhibition, the Innochain conference and the Pre-VIVA course. All of these have been designed with the idea in mind, that a network of 15 projects shared between academic and industrial partners from all over Europe requires events which allow to review and conclude for the next steps in the individual projects and the general research of Innochain.
With many of the Innochain projects in the last part of their course the Innochain exhibition PRACTICE FUTURES - BUILDING DESIGN FOR A NEW MATERIAL AGE provided a mean to gather ressources and create a set of final demonstrators, which presented in many cases a stepping up from previous research trajectories and scales. The exhibition initiated and leverage not only the physical production of novel contributions. but served as well as means to test and refine the dissemination of the ESR projects to a wide array of audiences. The exhibition had a major impact internal to Innochain, to the industry partners and general public, as well as the hosting beneficiary at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation. Here the exhibition became a point of reference for students and teachers and was successfully used by the host to communicate, how research in Architecture and Technology can be performed, e.g to the Danish Minister for innovation, who paid a visit.

The Innochain conference EXPANDING INFORMATION MODELLING FOR A NEW MATERIAL AGE contextualised the Innochain results in the interdisciplinary discourse of Information modelling. ;ore than 150 participants took here part in a two-day inquiry in how this shared digital platform enables the emergence of a new hybrid practice. In here otherwise separate tools and methodologies of design, analysis and fabrication can intersect in a shared digital platform, which enables the emergence of a new hybrid practcie. Current design practice is invested in the prototyping of these new methodologies. Across the building industry and in research we see a collective push for understanding how this new digital chain can be structured, what are productive exchanges and how a new sense of feedback can lead to smarter design solutions. The InnoChain conference call was answered widely and more than 40 speakers presented the leading examples of this hybrid design practice.
The presentation of innovative projects from practice and research highlighted strategies and tools for interdisciplinary collaboration, advanced design optimisation and material rethinking and led finally to a peer-reviewed publication with UCL Press. THE BOOK “DESIGN TRANSACTIONS - RETHINKING INFORMATION MODELLING FOR A NEW MATERIAL AGE” was published in April 2020 in an OpenAccess model1.
We finally want to thank all persons and institutions involved in the preparation of these final Innochain events, especially Yuliya Sinke from CITA, who have been instrumental for the organisation and design of the Innochain exhibition and conference.