Today is the beginning of the Design Workshop “Temporary and Transformable Systems” held at the ESDI (Escola Superioir de Desenho Industrial) in Rio de Janeiro.

Professor Dieter Mankau, Professor Petra Kellner and myself are going to be discussing the implications of transformable structures in product design together with German and Brazilian Students.

The workshop keywords:

light; transformable; minimum; organic surfaces; membrane; self supporting; self stabilizing; sculptural; temporary; movable and free form

The Design workshop flickr group was created to archive the research done by the students along with the progress and results. there already many great images around the theme of the workshop, is worth a visit.