HOW I START to DEVELOPING MY WEBPAGE !!???
Let's use it to clear up where things are, where they should be and where to find them (hopefully!)
FIRST, WHO I AM...
Actually, answer that question is one of my main motivations to start this project at Fab Academy. Maybe it's a age issue? Well i think it's not the point...
It's been a looong time since i last felt excited about discovering anything on the "outer world". For some years I got only focused on personal development, inner world oriented... After my Erasmus at UIAH in finland and my work at Opera House in Barcelona, the last years have been a period without personal challenges (realy personal). I expect the FabLab "book of knowledge" to become an experience to find myself again, but as a component of the rest of the world, one piece in the puzzle.
I've been always linked with live entertainment activities. Even if I'm not a particularly enthusiast of theatre, I spent the last fifteen years working with set designs and team management (these I really like them). I also spent many years teaching in the same area, design for performing arts. Somehow I always felt like if I was developing the three main levels of the activity: technical production at Liceo Opera House, Intitut del teatre as a teacher and major opera designs all around the world with diferent designers and directors. Now it's time to start new projects, and changing a bit the point of view is kind of mandatory. Is it enough as an introduction? I'm not the kind of person taht talks a lot about oneself... ...by the way..
My name is Pablo!
layer 1
Liceo Opera House is the opera house from barcelona. I've worked there for almost 13 years, mainly focused in project management and team coordination, always on stage. So I guess it became one key indicator of who am I right now.
layer 2
Performing arts and technology have many things in common. And modern tools are actually building a bridge between them in areas that we did'nt aware of. Tecnology has a priority position on the realtion with art, but digital construction is in a very promising line of development and can say a lot about the extensión of the arts nowadays. The theatre school of Barcelona is a very powerful place to be in terms of future posibilities, because it c¡an become easily a nice melting pot for this.
layer 3
Mixing up diferent areas of design is critical to foster every area concerning creativity. And a set, an opera stage is a very interesting playground to develope it. I'm not an opera software developer, not at all. But hey, I needed a logo for my free-lance paragraph on set design for big opera shows. I've been on it for 10 years.
WHAT'S MY PROJECT ABOUT?
I had three ideas for the final project, and i was not sure which one will keep on the track.
- Automated theatre scale model.
- Mechanical motion based real scale mask.
- Wearables linked with animatronics
Right now i think i've chosen one, related with my activities as profesor of stage design.
Theatre design students at my school are very focused in theatrical technics, and they really appreciate any activity related with new ways of fabrication/understanding. When we organize intensive courses realted with technologies it's a big success.
I'm not good making scaled models, it pisses me off. But I like technology. Mixing this to concepts together is perfect to develope an "starter kit" for my students.
So my final project will deal with that: a kind of toolbox focused in building a polyfunctional scale model, fully automatic and digitaly printed and cut.
ASSIGNMENTS
01. Principles and practices. Project management
02. Computer-aided design.
03. Computer-controlled cutting.
04. Electronics production.
05. 3D scanning and printing.
06. Electronics design.
07. Computer-controlled machining.
08. Embedded programming.
09. Mechanical design.
10. Machine design.
11. Input devices.
12. Molding and casting.
13. Output devices.
14. Composites.
15. Networking and communications.
16. Interface and aplications programming.
17. Applications and implications.
18. Invention, intellectual property and income.
19. Project development.
20. Project presentations.