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Desktop manufacturing and peer-to-peer

23Jul09

Some time ago a discussion emerged in the blogosphere about the question whether 3d printing will make it to the mainstream (take a look at my post about this debate). Today 3d printers seem to be increasingly taken for granted and rightly so, especially if one looks at the scope of the products currently made [...]

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Tags: peer produced design, peer produced space, peer produced tangibles

The New Kind of Search Engine

08Jun09

Stephen Wolfram is known both for his monumental The New Kind of Science and Mathematica developed by Wolfram Research. Now he has entered search engines’ domain with his new product. It’s called Wolfram|Alpha. Google is really good with providing you with a list of websites which contain the answer to your query. Wolfram’s approach is [...]

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Tags: data mining, search engine, Stephen Wolfram, WolframAlpha

internet of desires – sustainable redefinition of networks

03Sep08

Following one of my first posts here, I would like to share with you a short text which I wrote at the very beginning of second term Iaac studio on sustainable housing. I forgot to mention in the text earlier on, that the initial research condition was the Knowledge Village in the city of Dubai [...]

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governance 2.0 is few steps away?

29Aug08

An Rss feed from Reporters Without Borders blog kept informing everyone about bloggers and activists being arrested in China while most of mass media was only counting down to Bejing Olympics beginning (take a look here, or here). Reporters Without Borders is still a professional (although non-profit, I suppose) news agency, but non-professionals are increasingly [...]

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internet of instances of desires (iiD)

27Aug08

I was recently writing a short note on the self-sufficiency studio at Iaac in Barcelona and it made me think about the project (or rather an anti-project) which I have made at the time. There was a lot of talk in the air about self-organization, web 2.0, augmented humans and augmented spaces as well and [...]

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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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Archive for the 'networks' Category

Desktop manufacturing and peer-to-peer

The New Kind of Search Engine

internet of desires – sustainable redefinition of networks

governance 2.0 is few steps away?

internet of instances of desires (iiD)

Michal Piasecki

design

consulting

research

teaching

contact

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