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Tension Workshop

Started: June 28, 2004, 9:10 a.m.
Ended: July 4, 2004, 9 a.m.

Description

The Tension Workshop consisted of fourteen artists and technologists from Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Sweden and Canada. The participants spent a week in the FoAM lab in Brussels working on prototypes, models and full-scale structures that use the force of tension to sustain their shape and structural integrity, such as inflatables, nets and tensegrity structures.

Location

FoAM - Brussels
Koolmijnenkaai 30-34
1080 Brussels
Belgium

Workshops

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Residencies Tension

Self-sustaining, lightweight structures for temporary, mobile and wearable architectures. Surface tension, tensegrity, bends, twists, knots, inflation, elasticity; all of these ...