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Building Performance with Forma & Opossum, ZBrush & More
🎓 Learn how AI is driving innovation across architecture and design with Forma & Opossum, ZBrush, and advanced parametric modeling.
⏪ Last Workshop’s Replay:
Missed the last workshop or want to revisit the content? No worries! The recordings are available to watch whenever you need: AI City Urban Design in Grasshopper & ComfyUI
🔥 Brand New Workshop!
Dynamic Wearables for Fashion Design 2.0: This workshop expands the logic of dynamic wearables from jewelry-scale precision into garment-scale body systems, teaching students how to generate, map, segment, and fabricate computational designs that move between ornament, accessory, and fashion.
👥 You can gain access to all our live and on-demand workshops with a single Full Access membership. If you’re part of a team of five or more, reach out to us directly to explore custom Team Access options tailored for studios, offices, or academic groups.
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Let’s take a look at what we have in the upcoming weeks! ✨
This Weekend! AI-Powered Interior Design in Architecture 2.0
This workshop is designed to introduce a new generation of AI-driven workflows specifically tailored for interior designers. Participants will explore how to combine powerful AI tools to accelerate every phase of the design process, from initial concept generation and technical drawing creation to realistic rendering and client-ready presentations.
Building Performance with Forma & Opossum
This workshop introduces a comprehensive workflow that bridges the gap between rigorous environmental data, advanced parametric modeling, and final aesthetic presentation. Utilizing a powerful suite of tools, including the Autodesk Forma Rhino plugin, Ladybug, Honeybee, and Cyclops, the process focuses on three main pillars of modern architectural design: operational carbon, embodied carbon, and a healthy work environment.
▶️ Getting Started with AI? Our YouTube Guides Are Live!
ComfyUI Desktop App Installation GuideWhether you're new to ComfyUI, a powerful and flexible tool for working with AI image generation workflows, or looking for a smoother installation method, this step-by-step guide is perfect for you. | How to Turn Rhino3D Models into AI Concept Renders with SDXL & ControlNetLearn how to turn Rhino3D models into AI-driven conceptual renders using ComfyUI, SDXL, and ControlNet. |
Architecture Diagram Mastery: Concept to Portfolio
The workflow is built around SketchUp and Adobe Illustrator because together they form a powerful, industry-relevant process. SketchUp helps you create clean 3D geometry and understand spatial relationships, while Illustrator allows you to refine that into precise, well-composed diagrams.
AI Worldbuilding with SvelteKit & Three.js
The workshop takes place directly in the browser using Three.js, together with lightweight web tools such as SvelteKit and Vite. AI-assisted coding tools will support the process. The goal is not only to learn the tools, but to understand how they work together in a practical workflow for creating and publishing interactive 3D environments.
Choreographic Light: Spatial Design in Grasshopper
This workshop explores the intersection of spatial design, performance, and technology by teaching participants how to translate human motion into immersive spatial laser installations with Rhino and Grasshopper. A dynamic laser simulation will be developed in Grasshopper to enhance and highlight the spatial installation, making it a dynamic experience.
Hybrid Modeling with ZBrush
This workshop explores hybrid digital modeling workflows by integrating sculptural, parametric, and hard-surface design techniques and is centered around ZBrush as the primary tool. Participants will develop intricate high-resolution geometries by bridging multiple software environments, including Adobe Illustrator and Rhinoceros 3D.
Dynamic Wearables for Fashion Design 2.0

This workshop expands the logic of dynamic wearables from jewelry-scale precision into garment-scale body systems, teaching students how to generate, map, segment, and fabricate computational designs that move between ornament, accessory, and fashion.
🌟 Explore Recent Courses
Dynamic Wearables For Fashion DesignThis workshop is perfect for designers interested in developing their skills in parametric design at the body scale. Using Grasshopper allows us to design jewelry built specifically for additive manufacturing and to create the most intricate geometries, internal structures, and interlocking forms. | Parametric Pavilion Design: From Concept to FabricationThis workshop provides insight into practical design-to-fabrication workflows in Rhino and Grasshopper for the development of small-scale architectural structures. The course is grounded in a bottom-up design approach, in which design emerges from the material system, fabrication methods, and their inherent limitations. |
Reverse Engineering with AIIn this workshop, we focus on connected AI workflows that move seamlessly from one tool to the next, showing you how to build a personal, flexible pipeline instead of relying on isolated prompts and placing human vision at the center of the process | AI-Powered Interior Design in ArchitectureThis workshop is designed to provide custom & professional workflows for applying AI across different interior design stages. Participants will learn how to use AI tools to accelerate the process from early concept and mood development to actual design variations, material exploration, and high-quality visualizations. |










