IWSS - Let's Shape 2026

Summer School 2026

Let's Shape

Spetember 19 - 23, Torino, Italy

Let's Shape 2026

Let’s Shape! is a five-day Summer School exploring how artificial intelligence, computational design and structural engineering can inform the design of shells and spatial structures. Through lectures, coding sessions, applied workshops and collaborative studio work, participants will investigate machine learning, generative modelling, evolutionary optimization and AI-driven parametric workflows for advanced architectural and engineering applications.

Highlights

Registration and detailed information are available here.

Participants registered for the IASS–IWSS 2026 Joint Conference are entitled to a 50% discount on the Summer School registration fee.

Venue

OGR Torino – Officine Grandi Riparazioni

Confirmed lecturers

S. Adriaenssens — Princeton University

P. D’Acunto — Technical University of Munich

M. Tam — The University of Hong Kong

R. Otani — Thornton Tomasetti

G. C. Marano — ARtIStE, Politecnico di Torino

A. Manuello — ARtIStE, Politecnico di Torino

V. Sumini — Politecnico di Torino / MIT

P. Pagliuca — CNR Rome

D. Bichara — NP-AI

M. Maurizi — AI4I

S. Panichella — AI4I

S. Gallivanone — AI4I

L. Rozo — AI4I

S. Betteti — AI4I

R. Cucuzza — ARtIStE, Politecnico di Torino

F. J. Gardella — Politecnico di Torino

M. Rossi — Politecnico di Torino

Scientific direction

G. C. Marano, M. Maurizi, A. Manuello Bertetto, S. Gabriele, F. Marmo, A. Micheletti, F. J. Gardella, R. Cucuzza, V. Morra

Organizing Institutions

CSP/IAS \ Institute for Advanced Study, ARtIStE International Association, 4S Association - Italian Association for the Studies on Shells and Spatial Structures

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