Tree to Product – opportunities in the digital timber value

Tamke, M. (Organizer)
Svilans, T. (Speaker)
Jan Bulmer (Speaker)
Udo Sauter (Speaker)
Markus Lukacevic (Speaker)
Laura Kiesewetter (Speaker)

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TreeToProduct Workshop

Period	8 Apr 2022
Event type	Seminar
Location	Stuttgart, GermanyShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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timber
Timber value chain
forestry
digitisation

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In this workshop we want to connect protagonists working with aspects of digitisation in the forestry sector of Baden Württemberg and beyond with researchers and design practitioners in the field of computational architecture, who work with the creation and utilisation of timber on material level. The workshop addresses the shift in understanding of materials in architecture and engineering which takes place due to the climate crisis and the move towards a bio-based economy. Here material can no longer be understood as a readily available off the shelf product, but as a precious resource with impact on local ecological and social level. Timber is often presented as the solution for the negative impact of our current building practice we observe simultaneously, that up to 70% of the raw material from trees becomes waste in its transformation to building elements; and that a material with very individual, complex and fascinating behaviours is classified into a few standard grades in order to conform our current industrial construction logics. Simultaneously huge efforts are undertaken to digitize sectors in both forestry and building industry. Together we want to learn and discuss about resource and data flows in the forestry and building sector and how a potential linkage of these could provide an opportunity for designers and fabricators to create or improve products, processes and services in terms of sustainability, accountability, clarity and efficiency. The invited Speakers will present views from industry and research along the whole Timber Value Chain:

Tree to Product – opportunities in the digital timber value

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