This year at the Annual IASS Conference, the SMG invites you to Show (Touch) and Tell. Please bring physical models to inspire. The exposition will give visitors not only the ability of exploring the models visually but should also be allowed to touch and feel the structural or motion behavior of the prototypes.
This new format, will be open for all participants, from young PHD-candidates to senior researchers with years of experience. The idea is to enable researchers to share their fascination of a specific model. It is open to the contributor to show a phenomenon he or she would like to share for discussion that shows an open problem or fascinating effect, or the entire PhD in a single artifact.
During the last years, lectures at SMG-special sessions at IASS Conferences were often supported by models the presenters were bringing with them. This lead often to intense and inspiring discussions based on the models after the sessions often radically stopped by the beginning of the next session. This moment of joyful experiences and surprisingly insights to certain topic that can often be transported to a physical model more easily than through a 15 minute talk is a true pleasure for everyone. Therefore the Organizers of the SMG decided to try a new formalized format at this years conference in Zurich 2024.
SMG incubates novel ideas of structures connected through forms, ranging from engineering, computation, art, biology, and mathematics.
We are interested in finding novel questions as well as solving the problems.
Often these important ideas come from making prototypes, touching them, discussing in front of the models.
In particular, this event welcomes new comers, people from different background, students and young researchers.