News – DesignMorphine

Michael Pryor to tutor at ratLAB Smart Labs 3.0

/// 03 September 2019, India

DesignMorphine’s Design Director Michael Pryor will teach some sessions of the next Smart Labs 3.0. Smart Labs 3.0 will explore Computational Design through teaching modules such as Digital Fabrication, Interactive Design and Performative Design delving into prototyping, environmental studies, structural analysis, building performance analysis, 3D printing, Virtual Reality, among other aspects of Design Technologies. The course will cover multiple workshops and a final exhibition. Michael will bring his knowledge of parametric design through Grasshopper and his Plug-In Pufferfish.

Smart Labs 3.0 Registration: www.rat-lab.org/smartlabs

Pavlina Vardoulaki at NYIT Fall lecture series

/// 26 August 2019, NYIT, NY, USA

DesignMorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki alogn with Dustin White will take part in a lecture series this fall about their exhibition + gallery titled Automation in Design, which consisted of 3d printed prototypes from them and their students over a semester at NYIT.

Lecturers: Dustin White, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Billie Tsien, Marcella Del Signore, Gernot Riether, Borja Ferrater, Mimi Hoang, Charles Matz, David Eugin Moon, and Jay Valgora

ShapeDiver now supports Pufferfish

/// 06 August 2019, Portland

Since Michael published the first version of the plugin, it became instantly one of the most popular additions to the Grasshopper ecosystem. Last week, it reached 60,000 downloads on Food4Rhino, making it one of the 10 most downloaded plugins of all time (ShapeDiver already supports several entries of the top 10, including Kangaroo, Lunchbox, MeshEdit and Human). Pufferfish can now be used on the ShapeDiver platform.

ShapeDiver article: www.shapediver.com/blog/shapediver-now-supports-pufferfish-plugin/

Automation in Design, Design by Automation Symposium and exhibition organized by DesignMorphine and NYIT at New York Institute of Technology
///17 April 2019, NYIT, NY, USA

DesignMorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki along with NYIT’s Dustin White organized a symposium and exhibition about autonomous design at The New York Institute of Technologies Manhattan campus. The symposium was keynoted by the AA DRL director Theodore Spyropoulos followed by lectures from many great designers in the field including additional members of DesignMorphine. Afterwards guests attended a student designed exhibition and presentation of 3d printed design iterations for a future permanent installation that will live at NYC’s first VR lab, Jump Into The Light.

Organizers: Pavlina Vardoulaki, Dustin White

Moderator: Anthony Caradonna

Keynote: Theodore Spyropoulos

Lecturers: Robert Stuart-Smith, Li Chen, Maria Alejandra Rojas, Dustin White, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Marcella Del Signore

Pavlina Vardoulaki at (un)Programming Computational Processes lecture series at New York Institute of Technology

/// 27 February 2019, NYIT, NY, USA

DesignMorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki took part in a lecture series about computational design and its emergence as a dominant paradigm in design and architecture. Her talk evaluated the evolution of computational design through history and where it is potentially headed. The lecture was held at The New York Institute of Technologies Manhattan campus Architecture department.

Lecturers: Tom Verbes, Naomi Frangos, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Christian R. Pongratz, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Moderator: Marcella Del Signore

Principles of Parametric & Generative Design lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

/// 26 February 2019, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine members Zlatko Yanakiev and Tung Nguen recently gave a lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy Sofia. The lecture focused on the computational methods as a tool of analysis and design. The lecture was a lead up to our upcoming intensive course Intro to Parametric Modelling with Grasshopper and Rhino V1.0.

Lecturers: Zlatko Yanakiev & Tung Nguen

Algorithmic Accessories V4.0 interview on ShapeDiver

/// 02 February 2019, Vienna, Austria

ShapeDiver interviewed DesignMorphine’s Lidia Ratoi and Eva Blšáková about their work and upcoming workshop Algorithmic Accessories V4.0 for parametric jewelry design.

ShapeDiver Interview: https://www.shapediver.com/blog/designers-corner-ep-7-eva-blsakova-lidia-ratoi/

DesignMorphine in Arkinka Magazine December 2018 issue
///04 January 2019, Peru

Designmorphine is featured in Arkinka Magazine’s December 2018 issue alongside Zaha Hadid Architects, Trahan Architects, and Morphosis. Arkinka is Peru’s most influential architecture magazine since 1995. DesignMorphine’s section is about our work and the education of new age design practices.

Arkinka Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkinkaoficial

Dynamic Mutations returns to Harvard GSD for the third time

/// 11 November 2018, Cambridge, Massachusetts – USA

Designmorphine will be teaching an intensive workshop at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design called Dynamic Mutation V3.0. on January 17-18, 2019. The workshop will focus on advanced modelling with Autodesk Maya and Keyshot rendering. This workshop follows the success of last year’s Dynamic mutations installment at Harvard GSD’s J-Term sessions. The course will be taught by Designmorphine’s Pavlina Vardoulaki and Alejandra Rojas. The workshop is only available to Harvard students.

Enrollment Page: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/j-term/j-term-courses/#mutation

DesignMorphine lecture at this year’s AIA League of Northern NJ Architects League Meetup

/// 10 July 2018, Paramus, NJ, USA

Michael Pryor, Pavlina Vardoulaki, and Alejandra Rojas, and Li Chen will lecture their presentation “AutoARCH” at this year’s Northern NJ Architects League Meetup. Each DesignMorphine member presented their works pertaining to robotics in making automatic architecture which reacts to a system of constant changing variables.

AIA League of Northern NJ Website: http://alnnj.org/

Michael Pryor to tutor at ratLAB Smart Labs 2.0

///09 September 2018, India

DesignMorphine’s Design Director Michael Pryor will teach some sessions of the next Smart Labs 2.0 Smart Labs 2.0 is a 6-8 month long programme for parametric design which takes place in Chennai and Delhi India. The course will cover 4 workshops and a final exhibition. Michael will bring his knowledge of parametric design through Grasshopper and his Plug-In Pufferfish.

Smart Labs 2.0 Registration: https://www.rat-lab.org/smartlabs

DreamBOOST 2018 scholarship winners announced

/// 10 July 2018

The first DreamBOOST scholarship has completed, there was a great response with over 70 applicants from all over the world. This year (2018) there were three available 1200€ scholarships donated from DesignMorphine, ShapeDiver, Chaos Group, DeCode Fablab, and Botyo Dimitrov. The winners of the 2018 scholarships are Argyrios Delithanasis, Harry Hinton Hard, and Judyta Cichocka.

DreamBOOST 2018: http://designmorphine.com/store/dreamboost/past/dreamboost2018/

Michael Pryor releases new Grasshopper plugin Blindfold

/// 13 June 2018, New York

Designmorphine Design Director, Michael Pryor has released a new plugin for Grasshopper called “Blindfold”. Blindfold is a single component which can hide or show geometry in Rhino that is referenced into the Grasshopper document.

Download here: www.food4rhino.com/app/blindfold

DesignMorphine member Lidia Ratoi interviewed by Red Bull about the connection between nature and digital in computational design, her work, and DesignMorphine

/// 11 June 2018, Romania

Lidia Ratoi was recently interviewed by Red Bull about her work, thoughts on computational design, robotics, and DesignMorphine. She talked about the common point of her many interests and how that shapes her view for the future of design. Lidia’s work consists primarily of digital manufacturing methods such as 3D printing, robotics, and other code-based manufacturing methods. Read more about Lidia from her interview at the link below.

Red Bull article: www.redbull.com/ro-ro/lidia-ratoi-digital-researcher

DesignMorphine member Zlatko Yanakiev interviewed by Stroiinfo about the creation of new working spaces at UACEG and his experience with DesignMorphine

/// 06 June 2018, Sofia

Zlatko Yanakiev was one of DesignMorphines first students and has been an essential part of its growth. He has also taken roles within UACEG to help develop particular aspects of the school. Recently he has taken on the development of new work and event spaces for the school. Stroiinfo interviewed Zlatko about these recent interventions, see the link below to read the full article.

Stroiinfo article: https://stroiinfo.com/

Tsvetelina Georgieva was a speaker during the Leaders Who Build Event in UACEG, Sofia

/// 10 May 2018, Sofia

Tsvetelina Georgieva was a main speaker during an event for the women in the construction business – Leaders Who Build. It was held in the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Sofia. The other two speakers were Prof. Fantina Rangelova, Dean of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UACEG, Sofia and Eng. Snezhana Semova, General Manager of Weber Bulgaria.

Stroiinfo article: https://stroiinfo.com/

Tsvetelina Georgieva interview with Stroiinfo

/// 30 April 2018, Sofia

Tsvetelina Georgieva was interviewed in Stroiinfo about the DesignMorphine’s DreamBOOST scholarship. The article is also about the parametric design and its development in Bulgaria now.

Stroiinfo article: https://stroiinfo.com/

DreamBOOST Scholarship for design students launches

/// 29 April 2018

DesignMorphine along with ShapeDiver, DeCode Fab Lab, and Architect Botyo Dimitrov launch the first iteration of DreamBOOST. DreamBOOST is a scholarship available for any student in a design major to apply for. This first version has two available scholarships each worth 1200 euros.

DreamBOOST Website: http://designmorphine.com/store/dreamboost/

Pavlina Vardoulaki mentors this year’s Hackmasters Hackathon for new technologies with Dubai Customs

/// 26 April 2018, Dubai

DesignMorphine’s Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki was invited back to Hackmasters Dubai for the second time. This iteration focused on new technology and systems which can improve human error and tracking optimization with Dubai Customs. Pavlina served as a mentor futurist advising the teams in the development of their systems.

Hackmasters Site: www.mastersmondial.net/masters-mondial/

Zvonko Vugreshek held presentation called Through Algorithmic Design to Intelligent Solutions at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje

/// 25 April 2018, Skopje

DesignMorphine member Zvonko Vugreshek gave a lecture to the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. The lecture was about algorithmic designs implementation to intelligent solutions to architecture.

Faculty of Architecture in Skopje Site: www.arh.ukim.edu.mk/index.php/en/

DesignMorphine Design Director Michael Pryor represented Trahan Architects by demoing Pufferfish at Pratt Hackamania

/// 16 April 2018, New York

Michael Pryor presented a demo of his Grasshopper3d Plug-in Pufferfish at Pratts recent Hackathon held at Grimshaw’s NYC exhibition space. Michael was there representing Trahan Architects where he is a designer. Additional demos at the hackathon included plug-ins and workflows by NBBJ, Grimshaw, nTopology, Big, Front, Thornton Tomasetti, Woods Bagot, Iris, HOK+, and more.

Pufferfish Download: www.food4rhino.com/app/pufferfish

DesignMorphine member Vamsi Krishna Vemuri gave a TEDx talk about Mediated Fictions

/// 16 April 2018, BITMesra

The talk revolved around the evolution of fictions through history and how the advent of VR/AR/MR have altered the way we perceive or consume fictions. Fictions are no longer perceived from an external perspective, but they can be lived, disrupted and your decisions can alter how they operate and engage with realities. The role of present day architects does not confine or limit to creating things, but it expands to the domain of constructing realities. Vamsi showcased a distinguished set of projects developed over the years and elucidated on the idea of how fictions can act as a catalyst to generate newer ideas.

TEDx BITMesra Site: www.tedxbitmesra.com

DesignMorphine members Lidia Ratoi and Zvonko Vugreshek lecture at Copenhagen Fablab

/// 16 April 2018, Copenhagen

Lidia Ratoi and Zvonko Vugreshek lectured at Copenhagen Fablab about digital fabrication, software, and robotics pertaining to the new era of digital design in architecture with their lecture “Human in the time of digital”. Additionally, they showed relevant projects to the express the subject matter. The purpose of the lecture was to familiarize a broader range of public with digital fabrication and the software associated with it. It aimed to prove how parametric software is effectively implemented into manufacturing.

Copenhagen Fablab Site: http://valby.copenhagenfablab.dk/

DesignMorphine members Nicolas Turchi and Vamsi Krishna Vemuri selected as part of the best 9 projects of the year

/// 22 March 2018, ArchDaily

Our members Nicolas Turchi and Vamsi Krishna Vemuri were selected as part of the best 9 projects of the year based on level of development and overall quality. Their work was selected out of over 300 projects with jury members from ZHA/BIG/Morphosis/SciArc and more.

ArchDaily article: https://www.archdaily.pe/pe/890576/architecture-student-convoca-los-mejores-proyectos-y-estos-son-los-resultados

Zvonko Vugreshek interviewed on Smartportal.mk about computational design and DesignMorphine

/// 09 March 2018, Skopje

The talk was about emergent multidisciplinary techniques where he explained how computational and parametric design works, how it differs from traditional methods and the benefits of its usage in daily design tasks. Furthermore, introducing DesignMorphine, the organization, structure and workshops and noting our workshop in Skopje last year. To close off he shared his experience working at 3XN where he was in charge of using computational tools to solve project-specific problems and automate tedious tasks by creating a range of in-house components for everybody to use.

Smartportal.mk article: https://www.smartportal.mk/licnosti/zvonko-vugresek-design-morphine/

Vertical Variables V2.0 workshop reported in Stroiinfo

/// 04 March 2018, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine’s Vertical Variables V2.0 was a parametric tower design workshop in Sofia Bulgaria which took place from Feb 24 – Mar 01. The entire workshop process was documented by Kristin Dzhalova for the website Stroiinfo.

Stroiinfo article: https://stroiinfo.com/designmorphine

Pavlina Vardoulaki and Alejandra Rojas present at the AIA Brooklyn’s BKEP Speak [Emerging Design Methodologies] meeting

/// 24 February 2018, Brooklyn, New York

DesignMorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki and Member Alejandra Rojas presented at the AIA Brooklyn’s BKEP Speak on the 20^th of February, 2018. They presented their current works, DesignMorphine, and the importance of parametric design thinking in today’s architectural design field. The presentation and discussion was alongside Mancini Duffy Design Lab with a great discussion and informative Q&A.

Lecturers: Pavlina Vardoulaki, Alejandra Rojas, Christian Giordano, Michael Kipfer

Organizer: Brooklyn Emerging Professionals Committee (BKEP), David Flecha

Principles of parametric & generative design in High-rise buildings lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

/// 12 December 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine recently gave a lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy Sofia. The lecture focused on the computational methods as a tool of analysis and design in architecture specifically for high-rise buildings. The lecture was a lead up to our upcoming workshop Vertical Variables V2.0 which will take place in February 2018 bout parametric tower design.

Lecturers: Zlatko Yanakiev, Tsvetelina Georgieva, Radul Shishkov

Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki Interview with ShapeDiver

/// 11 December 2017, Vienna, Austria

Designmorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki was recently interviewed on ShapeDivers’s 4^th episode of their series “Designers Corner”. ShapeDiver is a platform which lets you upload parametric models via Grasshopper3d to the web, so others can manipulate the design parameters. The interview focused on Pavlina’s current work, DesignMorphine, future goals, parametric designs, mass customization and more. The article also includes images of her experimental work as well as an editable 3d model of a parametric ring called “Bat Ring”.

ShapeDiver Interview page: https://shapediver.com/blog/designers-corner-episode-4

Editable Bat Ring Model: https://shapediver.com/m/bat-ring

ShapeDiver Intro to DM: https://shapediver.com/blog/getting-to-know-designmorphine

Design Director Michael Pryor Interview with Anonymous-Atelier

/// 09 December 2017, London, UK

Designmorphine Design Director Michael Pryor had an interview recently with the digital hub for architecture students, Anonymous-Atelier. The interview focused on Michael’s current work, explorations, grasshopper plug-ins, favorite software and more. The article also includes images of his experimental digital work.

Anonymous-Atelier Interview page: https://www.anonymous-atelier.co.uk/single-post/2017/12/09/A-chat-with-Michael-Pryor

Michael Pryor, Pavlina Vardoulaki, and Li Chen to lecture at this year’s AIA Quad Conference
/// 11 November 2017, Albany, NY, USA

Michael Pryor, Pavlina Vardoulaki, and Li Chen will lecture their presentation “Automation in Design, Design by Automation” at this year’s AIA Quad Conference. Design is an ever changing process, each time moving further and further into design automation and process optimization. With each evolution in automated design thinking the designer becomes more free to be concerned with big picture items, leaving repetitive and technical aspects of the design to the automation process in the form of systems and algorithms. The bases of the talk will focus on this shift in the design paradigm.

AIA Quad Conference Website: http://quadconference.aianys.org

Michael Pryor to give Grasshopper 3d workshop at this year’s AIA Quad Conference
/// 10 November 2017, Albany, NY, USA

DesignMorphine Design Director, Michael Pryor will give a grasshopper 3d workshop called Wired Shortcuts V1.0 at this year’s AIA Quad Conference. As opposed to usual advanced computational teachings which are aimed to a small niche of designers, this workshop will focus on practical everyday uses for computational and algorithmic design in the architectural workflow. The computational shift in thinking will be useful in speeding up common design problems that every architect encounters during design phases.

AIA Quad Conference Website: http://quadconference.aianys.org

DesignMorphine presents at 3XN Copenhagen

/// 04 November 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark

DesignMorphine held a presentation at 3XN’s Copenhagen office. The presentation discussed our pavilion at FabFest, Robotics, and other workshops we have done as well as one we have coming up. The presentation was given by DesignMorphine members Zvonko Vugreshek who is also an employee at 3XN and Lidia Ratoi.

3XN Website: http://3xn.com/

Dynamic Mutations returns to Harvard GSD for the second time

/// 03 November 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts – USA

Designmorphine will be teaching an intensive workshop at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design called Dynamic Mutation V2.0. on January 11-12, 2018. The workshop will focus on advanced modelling with Autodesk Maya and Keyshot rendering. This workshop follows the success of last year’s Dynamic mutations installment at Harvard GSD’s J-Term sessions. The course will be taught by Designmorphine’s Pavlina Vardoulaki and Michael Pryor. The workshop is only available to Harvard students.

Enrollment Page: https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/resources/j-term/j-term-courses/

Arte Robotica V1.0 workshop published in Inspirationist

/// 02 November 2017, Paris, France

DesignMorphine held a 3-day robotics workshop in Paris France which used Robots to paint Dadaist paintings. The workshop was held at WoMa Paris with Amaury Thomas. Over the series of days’ participants learned to program robot arms with special algorithms to paint. Inspirationist is is a daily updated source of lifestyle inspiration from architecture, design, fashion and many more cultural areas and reported on the workshop.

Inspirationist article: http://inspirationist.net/arte-robotica-v-01-computational-robotic-painting-workshop-by-designmorphine-results/

Arte Robotica V1.0 workshop published in Clot Magazine

/// 30 October 2017, Paris, France

DesignMorphine held a 3-day robotics workshop in Paris France which used Robots to paint Dadaist paintings. The workshop was held at WoMa Paris with Amaury Thomas. Over the series of days’ participants learned to program robot arms with special algorithms to paint. Clot Magazine is A magazine dedicated to Art explorations into Science and Technology and reported on the workshop.

Clot Magazine article: http://www.clotmag.com/postevent-arte-robotica

Michael Pryor releases new Grasshopper plugin Pufferfish
/// 17 October 2017, New York, NY, USA

Designmorphine Design Director, Michael Pryor has released a new plugin for Grasshopper called “Pufferfish”. This plugin is a set of components which focuses on Tweens, Blends, Morphs, Averages, & Interpolations – essentially shape changing.

Download here: http://www.food4rhino.com/app/pufferfish

Join the Grasshopper group here: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/pufferfish

DesignMorphine to present at Jump Into The VRFest NYC and announce new NYC workshops

/// 17 September 2017, NYC, USA

DesignMorphine members, Maria Alejandra Rojas and Li Chen will present on behalf of DesignMorphine at the VRFest held at the Virtual Reality Lab Jump into The Light in NYC. They will discuss their recent works and announce upcoming DesignMorphine workshops set to take place in NYC for 2018.

VRFest Website: https://www.jumpintovrfest.com/

Jump Into The Light Website: https://jumpintothelight.com/

Vamsi Krishna Vemuri of DesignMorphine to present at Skillshop

/// 16 September 2017, Yerevan, Armenia

Vemuri is in Yerevan leading a learning lab with TUMO teens. In this public lecture, Vemuri will present his work on digital aesthetics in films and video games. We’ll also take a look at his interesting graduation thesis project involving a fictionally augmented near-future city within a videogame. The presentation will take place at Skillshop and is brought to you by TUMO.

Skillshop Website: https://www.facebook.com/skillshoppage/

TUMO Website: https://tumo.org/

Pavlina Vardoulaki to present her accepted paper “Collapsing Emergence” at ECAL Conference Living Architectures 2017
/// 04 September 2017, Lyon, France

DesignMorphine Creative Director, Pavlina Vardoulaki will make a presentation at this year’s ECAL (European Conference on Artificial Life) in Lyon during the Living Architectures workshop. Her accepted paper titled “Collapsing Emergence” will be the main premise of her lecture. The conference is supported by ISAL (the International Society for Artificial Life ).

Living Architectures Workshop: http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/LIAR/Living%20Architectures%20Workshop%202017.html

ECAL Website: https://project.inria.fr/ecal2017/

ISAL Website: http://alife.org/

Generative Morphologies V4.0: DesignMorphine’s first workshop in India published on Arch-Reporter

/// 26 August 2017, Chennai, India

Generative Morphologies V4.0 was DesignMorphine’s first workshop held in India at the Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology. The workshop taught both Grasshopper3d and Zbrush to mix techniques of computation and manual sculpting processes. Generative Morphologies V4.0 computationally addresses “Morphologic Metropolis”, a Growth and the cultural data-driven phenomenon of the city as an ecological organism adapting to an environmental stimulus.

Tutors: Vamsi Krishna Vemuri, Shridhar Mamidalaa

Arch-Reporter Article: http://www.archreporter.com/generative-morphologies/

Generative Morphologies V4.0 Results: http://designmorphine.org/workshop/past/generative-morphologies-v4/projects/

Glitcheon: A post digital Neo-Grotesque Cathedral published on Arch-Reporter

/// 20 August 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

Project Glitcheon was a result from our Dynamic Mutations V3.0 workshop which took place in the summer of 2016. The workshop focused on an experimental design process which involved mutating design elements found on Temple Sveti Nikolay in Sofia, Bulgaria. Mutations were executed via Grasshopper3d, Maya, Zbrush, and Unreal Engine.

Glitcheon Designers: Alex Ahmad, Arek Keshishian, Harry Varnavas, Vamsi Krishna Vemuri

Arch-Reporter Article: http://www.archreporter.com/glitcheon-post-digital-cathedral/

Dynamic Mutations V3.0 Results: http://designmorphine.org/workshop/past/dynamic-mutations-v3/projects/

DesignMorphine pavilion at Fab Fest 2017 wins 3rd QHT Award for Architectural Spirit
/// 09 July 2017, London, UK

FAB FEST International Fabrication Festival is a week-long celebration of design and making, featuring over 50 pavilions built by students of architecture from across the UK and around the world. The theme for this year’s edition was ‘Pop-up City’. DesignMorphine’s pavilion “from Fabrication to Creation” was awarded 3rd QHT Award for Architectural Spirit. The installation is comprised of 2,400 discrete cardboard elements which interlock together crating an overall form guided by an iso surface.

Phase 1 Design Team: Juan Lee, Luka Verigic, Monika Kalinowska, Zlatko Yanakiev, Zvonko Vugreshek

Phase 2 Design Team: Monika Kalinowska, Zlatko Yanakiev, Zvonko Vugreshek

Build Team: Monika Kalinowska, Zlatko Yanakiev, Zvonko Vugreshek

Mentors: Georgi Kunchev, Michael Pryor

Pavlina Vardoulaki invited to attend and lecture at Hackmasters in Dubai
/// 02 July 2016, Dubai, UAE

DesignMorphine Co-Founder and Creative Director, Pavlina Vardoulaki, has been invited to attend Hackmasters next hack event in Dubai “Dubai: Future of Happiness” where she will give a lecture as well as participate as part of a hack team.

Hackmasters Site: http://hackmasters.co.uk

Computational Introductions lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy

/// 16 May 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

The lecture focused on computational methods as a tool for analysis and design in architecture. The discussion covered the basic principles of parametric design and explained their differences and particularities. DesignMorphine presented the opportunities through examples of different application areas and clarifying the exact workflows.

Lecturers: Tsvetelina Georgieva, Zlatko Yanakiev, Martin Petrov

DesignMorphine’s held a one-day free Architectural Hackathon as a part of Webit 2017

/// 29 April 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria

Elevated Habitat V1.0 was an architectural hackathon, part of the program of Webit 2017. It was also a part of the initiatives on the occasion of 10 years’ membership of Bulgaria in the European Union, organized by the European Commission Representation in Bulgaria and Sofia Municipality. The participants in the event developed an innovative solution for a roof top space of a building in the city of Sofia – Municipal Cultural Institute “Sredets” alongside DesignMorphine mentors. Over 40 students participated and the winning teams received various cash prizes and awards.

DesignMorphine Mentors: Tsvetelina Georgieva, Radul Shishkov, Georgi Kunchev, Zlatko Yanakiev, Martin Petrov

Official website: http://www.webit.bg/elevatedhabitat.php

DesignMorphine’s team has been accepted to participate in London’s Fab Fest 2017
/// 15 April 2017, London, UK

FAB FEST International Fabrication Festival is a week-long celebration of design and making, featuring over 50 pavilions built by students of architecture from across the UK and around the world. The theme for this year’s edition is ‘Pop-up City’, and the festival will also feature the launch of the first performance of the Architectural Robotics Theatre. Our team has been selected to attend and build their design.

Team Members: Georgi Kunchev, Juan Lee, Luka Verigic, Monika Kalinowska, Zlatko Yanakiev, Zvonko Vugreshek

Check out the website here: http://fabfest.london/

DesignMorphine to take part in IAAC Global Summer School 2017 New York along with Terreform One, MEAL.Build, and NJIT from July 03-16 at the Brooklyn Navy Yards
/// 31 March 2017, New York, USA

Cities are continuously produced through entropic processes that mediate between complex networked systems and the immediacy urban life. Emergent media technologies inform new relationships between information and matter, code and space to redefine new urban ecosystems. The NY GSS aims at investigating emerging forms of reading and producing PUBLIC SPACES re- imagining the physical city through intelligent and mediated processes.

Tutors: Marcella Del Signore, Michael Pryor, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Riyad Joucka, Maria Aiolova, Cordula Roser Gray, Gernot Riether

See full brief, tutors, and application here: http://globalschool.iaac.net/node_new-york/

DesignMorphine’s collaborative project “Super Human” with HYPER gets published in “Pasajes Arquitectura” magazine
/// 05 March 2017, Madrid, Spain

DesignMorphine and HYPER Architecture + Design collaborated in the conceptual design of a power generating tower for New York City. This tower harnessed the power created by humans as they exercise. The tower boasts a gigantic gear system to symbolize the constant creation of electricity and the sheer power of human beings as a collective.

Pasajes Arquitectura Website: http://pasajesarquitectura.com/

DesignMorphine member Lee Souder interviewed by Luxion Keyshot
/// 26 February 2017, New Jersey, USA

Lee Souder recently did an interview for visualization software Keyshot. He discusses his career path as a concept designer specifically for game design and assets. In the interview you can learn about his inspirations, motivation, workflow and software use. Check the link below for the full interview and dive a bit into Lee’s world of design.

Interview: https://www.keyshot.com/c/lee-souder/

Dynamic Mutations GSD workshop at Harvard Graduate School of Design J-Term
/// 13 January 2017, Cambridge, Massachusetts – USA

DesignMorphine taught a 3 day J-Term workshop from Jan 11th to 13th at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The workshop was met with great interest and registration filled up quick. The workshop covered advanced mesh modelling with Autodesk Maya along with Keyshot rendering. Students learned all aspects of polygon modeling, curve modeling, hard surface modeling, animation, rigging, parametric manipulation, UV editing, texturing, and rendering of mesh’s modeled in Maya. Accompanying DesignMorphine’s Design Director and Creative Director, Michael Pryor and Pavlina Vardoulaki, was Lee Souder, an independent video game concept designer, former Treyarch/Activision on Call of Duty.

Tutors: Michael Pryor, Pavlina Vardoulaki, Lee Souder

Harvard GSD website: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/

More workshops photos: http://designmorphine.com/workshop/past/dynamic-mutations-gsd/photos/

ETEM’s booth for BAU exhibition 2017 in Munich which was the result of the DesignMorphine workshop “Intelligent Tectonics V1.0”
/// 12 December 2016, Munich, Germany

This year ETEM will be represented with a parametric pavilion in the exhibition BAU 2017. BAU 2017 is the biggest exhibition for architecture, construction materials and systems for industrial and residential construction which takes place every two years in Munich Germany. The pavilion is a result of the DesignMorphine workshop “Intelligent Tectonics V1.0”. In the workshop multiple teams developed pavilion designs and a winning teams design was selected to be built. The winning design was dubbed as the “Perspective Systems Pavilion” and is currently in the process of full scale construction.

Student Design Team: Ertunç Hünkar, Sebastian Comanescu, Adrian Auth

Workshop Tutors: Boyan Mihaylov, Georgi Kazlachev, Alberto Lago

Workshop Assistants: Radul Shishkov, Georgi Kunchev, Martin Petrov, Zlatko Yanakiev, Martin Georgiev

Construction, Documentation, and Realization: Radul Shishkov, Boyan Mihaylov, Tsvetelina Georgieva

Sponsors / Collaborators: ETEM, Elval Colour

Article: www.etem.bg/en/ETEM-WILL-BE-REPRESENTED-WITH-A-PARAMETRIC-PAVILION-IN-THE-EXHIBITION-BAU-2017

Lecture about Parametric Furniture Design at the Faculty of Furniture and Interior Design at ss.”Cyril and Methodius University”
/// 14 November 2016, Skopje, Macedonia

DesignMorphine members gave a lecture for the upcoming intensive course, “Parametric Furniture Design with Grasshopper and Rhino V1.0” which takes place from 27 to 29 January 2017 in Skopje, Macedonia. The lecture took place at the Faculty of furniture and interior design at ss.”Cyril and Methodius University”

The lecturers talked about the parametric and generative design and the main idea of the course. It combines algorithmic methods for 3D modelling with digital fabrication of furniture. The purpose is to produce furniture through the use of parametric design with geometries in a way that allows materialization. The course will go through the processes of constructing a shape algorithm, customization, 3D printing and fabrication. Participants will be introduced to parametric modelling tools in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper which will allow them to create and visualize unique custom designs.

Lecturers: Zlatko Yanakiev, Martin Petrov, Zvonko Vugreshek

Dynamic Mutations GSD workshop at Harvard Graduate School of Design J-Term
/// 14 November 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts – USA

DesignMorphine will be teaching a 3 day J-Term workshop from Jan 11th to 13th at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. The workshop will cover advanced mesh modelling with Autodesk Maya along with Keyshot rendering. Accompanying DesignMorphine’s Design Director and Creative Director, Michael Pryor and Pavlina Vardoulaki, will be Lee Souder, an independent video game concept designer, former Treyarch/Activision on Call of Duty.

See Lee’s work here: www.artstation.com/artist/leesouder

DesignMorphine member Arek Keshishian teaching Zbrush for youth at Tumo Center for Creative Technologies
/// 12 November 2016, Yerevan, Armenia

Arek Keshishian will be teaching students how to model Implicit Aesthetics in Zbrush over the course of a month. The workshop is completely free for students between the age of 12 – 18 at the Tumo Center of Creative Technologies.

www.facebook.com/TumoCenter/

DesignMorphine soundtrack by Factuaw
/// 10 November 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Bulgarian DJ Factuaw, has compiled a soundtrack of the electronic ambient trip-hop music he has created for our promotional videos. The soundtrack consists of 5 songs + a bonus song.

You can purchase the soundtrack here: www.viewsofia.com/article

Follow Factuaw on Facebook: www.facebook.com/factuaww

Interview of DesignMorphine Associate, Radul Shishkov
/// 19 October 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Bulgarian lifestyle article includes an interview with DesignMorphine associate, Radul Shishkov. Radul discusses his role as an associate of DesignMorphine and the workshops he teaches. He also discusses his personal interior projects which come to life via parametric design.

Check out the interview here: www.viewsofia.com/article

Interview of DesignMorphine member, Martin Petrov
/// 10 October 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Bulgarian article includes an interview with DesignMorphine member, Martin Petrov. He speaks about his personal and DesignMorphine projects and ambitions. The article showcases a collection of his work and furniture designs for his upcoming DesignMorphine workshop.

Check out the interview here: http://stroitelstvoimoti.com/

Interlace Ring by Algorithmic Accessories V1.0 Participant, Andrea Hanzl
/// 30 September 2016, Vienna, Austria

Andrea Hanzl’s “Interlace Ring” for the jewelry company Schullin Wien will be on display during the Vienna Design Week. The ring was developed at our Algorithmic Accessories V1.0 workshop in Vienna via grasshopper definitions prepared by DesignMorphine in collaboration with Mostlikely Fab Lab.

The tutors for this workshop were Radul Shishkov of DesignMorphine and Eva Tucek of Mostlikely Fab Lab.

DesignMorphine summer school 2016 results published on Rhino
/// 21 September 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine’s two summer workshops, “Intelligent Tectonics V1.0” and “Dynamic Mutations V3.0” have been published on Rhino blog. Both workshops had a great turnout totaling over 70 students. The results of “Intelligent Tectonics V1.0” is a pavilion which is currently in construction for the BAU Trade Fair in Munich in January 2017.

Article: blog.rhino3d.com/2016/09/designmorphine-summer-school-2016.html

DesignMorphine gives lecture during Archldei Forum
/// 16 August 2016, Burgas, Bulgaria

The lecture focused on computational methods as a tool of analysis and design in architecture. The discussion consisted of the basic principles of parametric and generative design and explained their differences and particularities. Here the goal was to present opportunities through examples of the different applications and to clarify their workflows.

Lecturers: Martin Petrov, Zlatko Yanakiev, Dimitar Peikov

DesignMorphine gives an award during the City Academy Awards 2016
/// 20 July 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Our Creative Director, Pavlina Vardoulaki was part of the jury at The City Academy Awards 2016

Our CEO, Tsvetelina Georgieva gave an award to the student Veselin Metodiev at the City Academy Awards 2016. The award was for excellence in design and allowed him to attend our Dynamic Mutations V3.0 workshop for free.

www.thecityacademyawards.bg/

Publication in BravaCasa Magazine, N121
/// 10 July 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

The publication consists of two articles.

The first article is for Tsvetelina Georgieva, Co-Founder and CEO of DesignMorphne. The article shows the interior design of her home – an apartment in Sofia.

The second article is about the workshops DesignMorphine has organized so far – from the first one in 2014 until now. Some of the most interesting projects and moments are shown from our collaborations with 90 Degrees Studio, Meshroom, V-Ray, & Mostlikely FabLab

NURBS workshop for Open Styles Lab at MIT
/// 25 June 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts – USA

DesignMorphine Creative Director Pavlina Vardoulaki and Design Director Michael Pryor gave a workshop to the fellows of the MIT Open Styles Lab. Students learned about NURBS modeling with Rhinoceros to produce custom hardware for clothing, such as buttons and zippers, for 3D printing. The invitation came from Grace Jun who is the educational Director at Open Styles Lab which focuses on wearable solutions for people with disabilities. You can check out Open Styles Lab here: http://www.openstylelab.com/

Lecturers: Pavlina Vardoulaki, Creative Director of DesignMorphine & Michael Pryor, Design Director of DesignMorphine.

Lecture for parametric and generative design at The New Bulgarian University
/// 09 June 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine CEO, Tsvetelina Georgieva along with Petko Georgiev give a lecture to students about parametric and generative design and the ways DesignMorphine is teaching these design methods through workshops. The invitation was from Associate Professor Zarko Uzunov. He was also a moderator during the lecture.

Lecturers: Tsvetelina Georgieva C.E.O. of DesignMorphine & Petko Georgiev

Exhibition of Computation Matters V1.0 Workshop Results
/// 12 April 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Exhibition of the projects /physical models and panels/ of Computation Matters V1.0 Workshop which took place in the Union of Architects in Bulgaria from 24 to 28 February 2016. The Exhibition took place in Transformatori, UACEG, Sofia, Bulgaria on 12 April 2016, 18:30H

Tutors: Antoniya Stoitsova, Radul Shiskov, Georgi Kunchev

www.transformatori.net/en

Official opening of the House of “For Our Children” Charity Foundation
/// 25 March 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Principal of the project: Radul Shishkov
Team: Emilia Maneva, Tsvetelina Georgieva, Tsvetan Tsekov, Nona Tsekova, Georgi Kunchev, Konstantin Doganov, Martin Petrov, Veselin Metodiev

http://www.detebg.org/bg/items/view/5606/Partnori-i-poddrazhnitzi-na-Detska-kashta-dekoriraha-interiora-i.html

Digital Fabrication Workshop at the University of Architecture
/// 14-24 March 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria

Our team was invited to help with tutoring by the team of Punkto – who organised a workshop about forgotten Bulgarian architects in the time of communism in Bulgaria. Konstantin Doganov, Zlatko Yanakiev and Dimitar Peikov from DesignMorphine were tutoring and assisting at Digital Fabrication Workshop at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Studio Projectirane, Sofia

HyperCell presented to Norman Foster
/// 12 February 2016, London, UK

Co-founder and creative director of DesignMorphine, Pavlina Vardoulaki presents HyperCell to Norman Foster.

http://www.hypercell.co.uk/

Lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy
/// 01 December 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

DesignMorphine Lecture at the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy, Studio Projectirane, Sofia. The lecture was focused on the computational methods as a tool of analysis and design in architecture. Martin and Zlatko discussed the basic principles of parametric and generative design and explain their differences and particularities. The goal was to present the opportunities through examples of the different application areas and to clarify the exact workflow. Great students turnout!

Lecturers: Martin Petrov, Zlatko Yanakiev

/participants in DesignMorphine Summer School 2015; “For Our Children” Foundation Charity Interior Project/

DesignMorphine Lecture at the University of Structural Engineering & Architecture “Lyuben Karavelov”, Sofia
/// 11 November 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Our team was invited by the Chairman of the Chamber of Architects in Bulgaria arch. Vladimir Damyanov and the Dean of the university prof. Borislav Borisov! Great students turnout!

Lecturers: arch. Tsvetelina Georgieva, arch.Radul Shishkov

“For our children” Charity Foundation Interior
/// 30 September 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Principal of the project: Radul Shishkov
Team: Emilia Maneva, Tsvetelina Georgieva, Tsvetan Tsekov, Nona Tsekova, Georgi Kunchev, Konstantin Doganov, Martin Petrov, Veselin Metodiev

http://www.detebg.org/bg/items/view/5606/Partnori-i-poddrazhnitzi-na-Detska-kashta-dekoriraha-interiora-i.html

Dynamic Mutations Workshop project’s results published by Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper
/// 28 September 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

http://m.gradat.bg/news/2015/09/14/2609246_dynamic_mutations_workshop/

Generative Morphologies v2 Workshop project’s results published by Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper
/// 23 September 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

http://m.gradat.bg/news/2015/09/14/2609257_generative_morphologies_v2_workshop/

DesignMorphine Summer School 2015 published by Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper
/// 14 September 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

http://gradat.bg/news/2015/06/29/2540338_designmorphine_summer_school_2015/

http://gradat.bg/news/2015/09/14/2609226_designmorphine_summer_school_2015_parametrichen_i/

http://gradat.bg/news/2015/07/17/2574684_designmorphine_summer_school_2015_svetovnite_tendencii/&rubrname=news/

DesignMorphine gives two awards during The City Academy Awards 2015
/// 15 July 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Our CEO Tsvetelina Georgieva gives two awards to the students Dimitar Dobrev and Dimitar Staynov at The City Academy Awards 2015. The awards is for attending a workshop during the DesignMorphine Summer School 2015.

http://thecityacademyawards.bg/

Hypercell lecture during Interarch / International Academy of Architecture
/// 17 May 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Pavlina Vardoulaki /Creative Director@DesignMorphine/ with lecture “Hypercell” during Interarch / International Academy of Architecture

http://iaa-ngo.com/?page_id=81

Publication in Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper
/// 04 May 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Tsvetelina Georgieva /CEO@DesignMorphine/ and Pavlina Vardoulaki /Creative Director@DesignMorphine/ with publication in Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper

Tsvetelina’s topic – “DesignMorphine – our experience in parametric and generative design”

Pavlina’s topic – “Hypercell”

http://gradat.bg/news/2015/05/04/2525705_sgradi_na_budeshteto_vruzkata_mejdu_nauka_obrazovanie/?ref=miniurl

Lectures during Forum Cities and Buildings of the Future
/// 28 April 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Tsvetelina Georgieva /CEO@DesignMorphine/ and Pavlina Vardoulaki /Creative Director@DesignMorphine/ with lectures during Forum Cities and Buildings of the Future

Tsvetelina’s topic – “DesignMorphine – our experience in parametric and generative design”

Pavlina’s topic – “Hypercell”

http://gradat.bg/news/2015/05/04/2525705_sgradi_na_budeshteto_vruzkata_mejdu_nauka_obrazovanie/?ref=miniurl

Interview for Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper
/// 23 February 2015, Sofia, Bulgaria

Tsvetelina Georgieva, CEO at DesignMorphine, with interview for Stroitelstvo Gradat Newspaper. Tsvetelina speaks about the differences in the architectural education in Bulgaria and abroad.

http://stroitelstvo.info/show.php?storyid=2478386