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Fab Lab Afganistan

24Jan09

Thanks to the collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Bits and Atoms, Rotary International Jalalabad – San Diego Sister City Project, and MindTel LLC a new Fab Lab was opened near the city of Jalalabad in Afganistan. I have found out about it through Amy Sun’s blog. The Fab Lab so far realized [...]

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we will go back to where we where (soon)?

01Dec08

We Have No Vision is a place where former Iaac students share thoughts loosely related to what they are doing on a daily basis. Times (not the magazine), economy, architects is the title of my newest text there. I wrote it in response to an article by Hemant Purohit. Hemant speaks of the disturbing situation [...]

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workers’ city in Bejing

17Sep08

Following the previous post and the argument about architecture as branding of contemporary regimes I would like to post here a print screen from Jacques Herzog presentation at Tate Modern in London. While describing the design process, he mentions that the “real workers’ city” accompanied the the building side: Of course, Jacques Herzog (nor any [...]

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Michal Piasecki

Michal Piasecki is a freelance designer and consultant specializing in generative design, parametric modeling, optimization and digital fabrication.
design

Michal Piasecki in collaboration with Ola Wasilkowska recently designed "Assemblage in Public" - a temporary pavilion for Critical Practice in London. The form of the pavilion was obtained through multi objective optimization with genetic algorithms.
consulting

Michal recently worked for Joris Laarman Studio on a generative process of "Starlings Table" - a 3d printed piece of furniture displayed on a Joris Laarman Lab show at Friedman Benda gallery in New York.
research

Michal is doing his PhD at the Bartlett in London, where he is researching potential use of evolutionary algorithms in online mass customization of products.
teaching

Michal is also a teaching assistant at the Master of Science in Adaptive Architecture and Computation at the Bartlett, where he is tutoring on digital studio and morphogenetic programming modules and on the final thesis.
contact

m.piasecki at ucl.ac.uk

mmichalpiasecki at gmail.com

+48 604 188 344
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Fab Lab Afganistan

we will go back to where we where (soon)?

workers’ city in Bejing

Michal Piasecki

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