Karen Antorveza
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EDUCATION
2022 -present
ETH Zurich | Switzerland
Ph.D. Researcher
Fellow Advanced Engineering with Living Materials Initiative
Advisor: Benjamin Dillenburger - Digital Building Technologies (DBT)
2018 - 2020
M.Sc. Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research ITECH
University of Stuttgart,ICD, ITKE. Germany
2010 - 2015
Bachelor of Industrial Design (4-year professional degree)
UADE - Buenos Aires, Argentina
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
University of Stuttgart | Germany Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
Research Assistant | Prof. Achim Menges
WORK EXPERIENCE
2021 -2022
Caracol AM
AM Senior Computational Designer R&D |Italy
2015 - 2018
TaMaCo cheLA
Co-Director | Argentina | //chela.org.ar
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2015 - Present
Studio Formosa
Founder | //formosa
A research-oriented and experimentally-based practice, focusing primarily on computer design and digital manufacturing, working in projects that span a range of scales, from exhibitions, interior design to industrial design products.
2013 -2015
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Trimaker
Industrial Designer
WORKSHOPS - INVITED TALKS
2019
| Ensa Paris Malaquais. France | Workshop Digital Folding: from Design to Fabrication. |
| University of Southern Denmark, CREATE e-TALK Fungal Objects | hosted by Computational Research in Emergent Architectural Technology. |
| Catholic University of Pereira. Pereira, Colombia. “TaMaCo”. A Todo Diseño 2018, Materializando Ideas | hosted by DI-FAD-UCP |
| Universidad de Buenos Aires | Workshop “Folding”. Chair Lisman. FADU. |
| CMD (Metropolitan Design Center). |“El diseño y construcción (file-to-factory)”. Route of design and sustainable innovation. Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| University of Buenos Aires, FIUBA Faculty of Engineering. “Digital tools and design” Product Design |
Skills sets
Fabrication and Hardware
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Robotics (KUKA)
• 3D printing
• Laser cutting
• CNC router
• 3D scanning
• 3D printing
• Laser cutting
• CNC router
• 3D scanning
• Biofabrication
• Wet Lab
• Woodworking
• Wood lamination
• Clay/plaster modeling
• Wet Lab
• Woodworking
• Wood lamination
• Clay/plaster modeling
Digital tools
• Rhinoceros - RhinoCAM
• Grasshopper - Kangaroo, Karamba
• Adobe Suite
• Keyshot, VRay
• Meshlab
Programming Languages
• Python
• HTML + CSS3
Grants and awards
2020
DAAD - COLFUTURO Scholarship
2018
Creation Grant. Objetos Fúngicos. National Fund of Arts of Argentina
2018
Design Research Grant. Metropolitan Fund of Culture Arts and Science of Buenos Aires
2016
Training Grant. National Arts Fund of Argentina
2015
Shenzhen Design Award for young talents.
KODAMA desk nominated by General Directorate of Foreign Trade of Buenos Aires to represent the city in the SZ DAY Shenzhen. China
Exhibitions
2024
| Matter of South: Biomaterial Cultures from Latin America Kunstgewermuseum, Berlin, Germany |
| Trazos Biomateriales. 2022 Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos AIres, Argentina |
| Milan Design Week 2022
SuperNatural Collection
WE WILL DESIGN. BASE. Milano, Italia |
| REHOGAR. Open Design and Reuse. Makea Tu Vida Barcelona, España |
2022
Trazos Biomateriales.
Objetos Fungicos
Buenos Aires, Argentina //centroculturalrecoleta.org/
PUBLICATIONS
Antorveza Paez K, Ling AS, Mahamaliyev N, Bauer G, Dillenburger B.: 2024, Digital Fabrication of Biologically Cemented Spatial Structures. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing 2024; (DOIi: 10.1089/3dp.2023.0339)
E. Özdemir*, L. Kiesewetter*, K. Antorveza*, T. Cheng, S. Leder, D. Wood, A. Menges: 2021, Towards Self-Shaping Metamaterial Shells: A Computational Design Workflow for Hybrid Additive Manufacturing of Architectural Scale Double-Curved Structures. Proceedings of the 2021 DigitalFUTURES (CDRF 2021), pp. 275–285. (DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6_26)
T. Cheng, D. Wood, L. Kiesewetter, E. Özdemir, K. Antorveza, A. Menges: 2021, Programming Material Compliance and Actuation: Hybrid Additive Fabrication of Biocomposite Structures for Large-Scale Self-Shaping. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, vol. 16, no. 5. (DOI: 10.1088/1748- 3190/ac10af)
Antorveza, K., 2020. Objetos fúngicos - Fungal Objects. [online] Issuu. Available at: <https://issuu.com/kaphend/docs/fungalobjects_booklet> [Accessed 25 October 2021].
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