IIDA Student Design Charette at NeoCon 2012
marquardt+ is working with IIDA on a new event for this year’s NeoCon: A tech-free student design charette! Groups from various design schools will work as teams from 9:30-3:00 on Tuesday, the 12th, to create a fantastic concept based on a design brief, which will include programming, rendering, all that fun, but no tech is allowed! Many students today go straight onto the computer and have lost a lot of the joy and interesting turns that can come from working by hand, so it was important to us that this process gets back into students’ minds.
m+ has been heavily involved in the process, writing the program and design problem. Vince from our office, and Jim, principal and founder of our sister firm Gridwerk Architecture, will be facilitating the charette on Tuesday!
Be sure to stop by booth 7-2067 and check out all the fabulous work! Winners will be announced Wednesday of NeoCon at the official IIDA Awards Reception hosted by DIRTT. Everyone’s already talking about it; it’s sure to be exciting, and will hopefully become an annual event!