Please note: This event took place in Oct 2019
Join us for an insightful talk around the automation of how we build things. Amazingly, construction is one of the least digitised industries in the world, second only to hunting. Productivity in the construction industry has not risen since World War II, and construction remains profoundly analogue, relying on semi-skilled or unskilled manual labour. The digital tools used in architecture have not translated into construction.
This fascinating talk explores the automation gap between the way we design and the way we construct our built environment. Mollie Claypool, South West Creative Technology, Automation Fellow and Director of the Design Computation Lab (DCL) at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and Automated Architecture (AUAR), explains how we might reach a more equitable future by rethinking the building blocks of architecture through a digital lens.