An Uncertain Future
Following Japan’s Tohoku earthquake—questions that designers and architects now face The magnitude 9.0 earthquake and resulting tsunami and nuclear disaster that hit Japan last March created an...
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Material Matters: New Smart Materials and Applications” @ Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Materials for the Carbohydrate Economy” @ Material Xperience, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Innovative Applications in Architecture Blaine Brownell’s best-selling Transmaterial series has introduced designers to hundreds of emergent materials that have the potential to transform our built...
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One of the most significant future transformations in the material sphere will be the development of a carbohydrate economy. This will be a global economy based primarily on renewable material...
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Materials for the Carbohydrate Economy” @ Material World Symposium, Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Blaine Brownell Interviewed by David Powell in South China Morning Post
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Materials for the Carbohydrate Economy” @ Green Nation Fest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer teach a biomimicry design workshop at Tianjin University, China
View ArticleJapan M-Term 2013
Blaine Brownell and Kaori Ito lead a collaborative workshop at the Tokyo University of Science, May–June, 2013
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Augmented Matter” @ Tokyo University of Science, Japan
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Transmateriality” @ Transmaterial Research Symposium, Melbourne, Australia
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “Materials for the Carbohydrate Economy” @ Monash University Art Design & Architecture, Melbourne, Australia
View ArticleJapan M-Term 2014
Blaine Brownell and Kaori Ito lead a workshop on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics at the Tokyo University of Science, May–June, 2014
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: “The Third Skin” @ Tokyo University of Science, Japan
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Blaine Brownell Lecture: ASODI 2nd Annual Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala
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