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H2020Doctoral network2015–2020

InnoChain · Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2015-09-01 → 2020-05-31
EU contribution
€3,972,691
Participants
20
Scheme
MSCA-ITN-ETN

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Results in brief

Building Innovation in the Extended Digital Chain

The InnoChain ETN network is a shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling sustainable, informed and materially smart design solutions. The network aims to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers with a strong industry focus that can effect real changes in the way we think, design and build our physical environment. The programme investigated the extended digital chain as a particular opportunity for interdisciplinary design collaboration. Challenging the traditional thinking of design as a linear process of incremental refinement, InnoChain identified three axes of design innovation potential communication, simulation and materialisation appearing as distributed and interdisciplinary activities across the design chain. Situating feedback between design processes as a key concern for developing holistic and integrated design methods, the network developed new interdisciplinary design methods that integrate advanced simulation and interface with material fabrication. Innochain projects worked on the cutting edge of computational design across building practice. The project results develop successfully a new collaborative practice enabled by computational advances that radically rethinks what the digital chain can be. Where the ESR projects were necessarily prototypical, their results and the continuing work of the ESRs on their topics beyond Innochain, show the creation of foundational methods and technologies needed for a sector wide change reshaping how the wider partnership within building practice works together. In this way the aim of Innochain to train a new generation of researchers that help to solve the pressing questions of the profession was reached.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

The InnoChain ETN network is a shared research training environment examining how advances in digital design tools challenge building culture enabling more sustainable, more informed and more materially smart design solutions. The network aims to train a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers with a strong industry focus that can effect real changes in the way we think, design and build our physical environment. The programme investigates the extended digital chain as a particular opportunity for interdisciplinary design collaboration. Challenging the traditional thinking of design as a linear process of incremental refinement, InnoChain identifies three axes of design innovation potential communication, simulation and materialisation appearing as distributed and interdisciplinary activities across the design chain. Situating feedback between design processes as a key concern for developing holistic and integrated design methods, the network will develop new interdisciplinary design methods that integrate advanced simulation and interface with material fabrication.With a strong inter-sector focus, InnoChain connects “research in practice” with “research in academia”. Assembling 6 internationally recognised academic research environments leading research into computational design in architecture and engineering and 14 innovation pioneering industry partners from architecture, engineering, design software development and fabrication, the programme will establish a shared training platform for 15 early stage researchers. The network creates a structured training programme focussed on supervision of individual research projects, an inter-sector secondment programme as well as collective research events including workshop-seminars, colloquia, summer school and research courses that provide a unique opportunity for young researchers to obtain new knowledge and skills positioning them between strong innovative research practice and influential industrial impact.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • DET KONGELIGE DANSKE KUNST-AKADEMISSKOLER FOR ARKITEKTIR, DESIGN OG KONSERVERING · KOBENHAVNCoordinatorDenmark
  • BIG · Valby, CopenhagenDenmark
  • Blumer-Lehmann AG · GossauSwitzerland
  • Buro Happold Limited · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • Cloud 9 SL · barcelonaSpain
  • FOSTER + PARTNERS LIMITED · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • Factum Arte Desarrollos Digitales SLSpain
  • HENN GmbH · MunichGermany
  • INSTITUT D'ARQUITECTURA AVANCADA DE CATALUNYA · BarcelonaSpain
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · StockholmSweden
  • MCNEEL EUROPE SL · BARCELONASpain
  • ROK, Rippmann Oesterle Knauss GmbH · ZürichSwitzerland
  • S-Form · DeizisauGermany
  • SMITH INNOVATION APS · KOBENHAVN KDenmark
  • STR.UCTURE GMBH · StuttgartGermany
  • UNIVERSITAT FUR ANGEWANDTE KUNST WIEN · WienAustria
  • UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · LondonUnited Kingdom
  • UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART · StuttgartGermany
  • WHITE ARKITEKTER AKTIEBOLAG · GöteborgSweden
  • designtoproduction GmbH · ErlenbachSwitzerland

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union