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Please find the latest TensiNewsflash March 2020

Topics: TensiNet on LinkedIn & Advanced Building Skins symposium

From March 9th until March 13th 2020, the International Week of Narrow Textiles will be held for the first time in Dresden.

The program is divided into four thematic sessions, including one-day training coures with live demonstrations, one-day presentations with world-leading machine manufacturers and researchers, and a parallel exhibition on all four days of presentations. The International Week of Narrow Textiles comprises the following four topics:

• New Materials and Sensors (March 09-10, 2020)
• Braiding Technology (March 09-10, 2020)
• Narrow Weaving / Multilayer Weaving / 3D Weaving (March 10-11, 2020)
• Assembling of Textile Products (March 11-12, 2020)

from home via microsoft teams

Our TensiNet association will be organizing two sessions on Architectural Membranes at the Advanced Building Skins Conference & Expo, to be held 26-27 October 2020 in Bern, Switzerland.

See https://abs.green/home/

More info will follow soon.

Please find the latest TensiNewsflash January 2020

IASS Annual Symposium and Spatial Structures Conference 2020: The conference will be organised at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, on 24-28 August 2020. https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020

Design Competition: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020/design-competition

The University of Surrey’s Spatial Structures Research Centre has launched a competition to design a spatial structure memorial that will mark the occasion of the seventh occurrence of the International Conference in Spatial Structures in August 2020. The winning design will be installed at a location adjacent to the new residences on Surrey’s Manor Park campus.  (Deadline 28.02.2020)

There is also a call for papers: https://www.surrey.ac.uk/iass2020/call-papers (Deadline 31.01.2020)

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Prof. Marijke Mollaert gave a keynote lecture on Recent designs of textile membrane structures for architectural applications at the Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference in Dresden, 28-29 November 2019.

Architect Katja Bernert from Mehler Texnologies gave a lecture on The potential of fabric façades at the same conference. Showing that already today fabric façades are much more than just a textile wrap for a building. Fabric meshes are evolving rapidly: at the end of this development they will be the matrix for all sorts of applications.

For more info see at http://www.aachen-dresden-denkendorf.de/itc/

Please find the latest TensiNewsflash December 2019

The conference, originally scheduled for 2020, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Inspiring the next generation incorporates:

the IASS Annual Symposium (IASS SYMPOSIUM 2020/21) and the 7th International Conference on Spatial Structures (SPATIAL STRUCTURES 2020/21)  will be organised at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, on 23-27 August 2021.

The aim of the Conference on Advanced Building Skins is to achieve a multi-disciplinary, integrated planning approach with architects, engineers, scientists, manufacturers and the building industry to reduce energy consumption of buildings.

POSTPONED - 8 till 10 October 2020

This 25th Anniversary Edition of Textile Roofs again aims to facilitate an intense dialogue on emerging topics in the field of textile architecture and gather an international expert community, who is able to drive the progress: politicians, businessmen, scientists and industrial representatives.

25 years of Textile Roofs seems to be more than a reason to celebrate together the worldwidely longest lasting series of events, that was initiated by our friend and visionary Prof. Lothar Gründig in 1995.

We will make this edition a very special one, with a lot of funny stories, memories, with meeting the outstanding minds of the TR history, with amazing new developements and a lot of special aganda items.

More info on www.textile-roofs.com