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Fabricate is an international conference on design and making about to take place in London in April 2011. UPDATE: call for work is extended to 20th of September. Below is an excerpt from the press release: FABRICATE is an international peer reviewed conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre […]


Michal Piasecki presented a paper “A Redefinition of the Paradox of Choice”, co-authored with Sean Hanna, at the 4th International conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC’10) in Stuttgart. The paper is a part of Michal’s ongoing PhD research on providing the users with intuitive and satisfactory B2C online mass customization expirience. The abstract is […]


Green2, a polish design magazine with a focus on sustainability, published Michal’s article on SmartGeometry 2010. This year’s SmartGeometry workshops took place at Iaac in Barcelona – a post-industrial setting likely to influence the title of the event. It was called “Working Prototypes”. Over four days more than a hundred participants worked in ten distinctive […]


Michal Piasecki recently took part in a symposium of PhD students researching computational design. Hosted by Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (CITA) in Copenhagen, the event drew together PhD students and tutors from The Bartlett, UCL, Spatial Information Architecture (SIAL) at RMIT and CITA. The event was structured into 4 panels and presentations of […]


“A Redefinition of the Paradox of Choice”, a paper co-authored by Michal Piasecki and Sean Hanna, was accepted for the Design Computing Cognition conference 2010 (DCC’10). In the paper builds upon Barry Schwart’z definition of the paradox of choice. The abstract outlines our proposition of reconsideration of the paradox and positions the Breeding Objects Experiment […]


There where three sessions on MCPC devoted entirely to configurators. Before moving on to discuss them, let’s answer a question: “what is a configurator?”. The definition provided by Configurators Database is a good answer: “Simply put, a configurator is a software application for designing products exactly matching customers’ individual needs.” B2C online product configurators are […]


Michal Piasecki attended Mass Customization and Personalization conference in Helsinki (MCPC 2009), where he presented the Review of B2C Online Product Configurators. There where couple of really interesting issues raised during these intensive two days and I would like to begin with discussion of the term “personalization”. Posts on automation in architecture as well as […]


If you are in London by the end of September void exhibit (AAC) is an event not to be missed. It’s the end of the year show of Msc Adaptive Architecture and Computation, starting at 6.30 pm on 25th of September. The venue is Arup’s “Phase 2 Exhibition Space”. Here is an excerpt from the […]


Together with Sean Hanna, I have co-authored a paper: “Review of B2C Online Product Configurators”. The work was accepted for 5th World Conference on Mass Customization & Personalization (MCPC 2009), which is about to take place between 4th and 8th of October 2009 in Helsinki. I will discuss some of the issues mentioned in the […]


I recently took part in the iRealize conference and workshop in Turin. The workshop was indeed an intense brainstorming session about what is refereed to as “post-industrial design”. It was facilitated by Massimo Menichinelli from Open Peer-to-Peer Design and Giorgio Olivero from ToDo. Stephen Williams from Fluid Forms was there as well. What is post-industrial […]



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