William Katavolos interview w/ Deborah Gans. Image by Diesel Professor W. Katavolos has been part of the Architecture School at Pratt Institute since the sixties. He is co-director of the Center for Experimental Structures. Over the years liquid architecture has been developed there. As a consulting designer he created the Time-Life and Owens Corning partition systems, the suspension ring system for the Moscow Fair, the Agricultural and Solar Pavilions for Salonika. Drawing of a city of liquid villas that would float on the sea. William Katavolos’s career as an avant-gardist spans 60 years, beginning in the late 1940s when, after giving up painting, he and fellow Pratt students Ross Littell and Douglas Kelley produced a furniture line including the “T” chair, which is now in the collection of MoMA and the Louvre.
It is one of his earliest experiments that is now the centerpiece of his continuing research at the Center for Experimental Structures at Pratt Institute, which he co-directs. Absolutely. What is communicational clothing? Hybrid World Lab. Workshop approach The workshop is an intense process in which the participants design projects (applications, services, games, programmes, formats) that use the physical world as interface to online media: location based media, everyday objects as media interfaces, urban screens, and cultural application of RFID technology.
Every morning lectures and lessons bring in new perspectives, project presentations. Some of the topics that will be investigated in this workshop are: the cultural and social possibilities of RFID technology, internet-of-things. Using RFID in combination with other kinds of sensors. Every afternoon the participants work on their own workshop projects. Workshop tools As practical research tools the participants can use the Symbolic Table 2.0 : a networked, RFID powered media player. Trainers & lecturers We are proud to announce the following trainers and lecturers:Timo Arnall: Timo is a designer and researcher working between London and Oslo. Ava Fatah gen. Reader Day 1. WikiLoc.