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Pixel Interfaces, Choreographic Light with Spatial Design in Grasshopper, ZBrush & More

🎓 Learn how AI is driving innovation across architecture and design with Pixel Interfaces, Spatial Design in Grasshopper, ZBrush, and advanced parametric modeling.

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Let’s take a look at what we have in the upcoming weeks!

This Weekend! 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.

Carlo Ratti - Rethinking Architecture

Carlo Ratti, founder of Carlo Ratti Associati and director of the Senseable City Lab at MIT, represents a pioneering approach to architecture and urbanism grounded in data, sensing technologies, and systems thinking. PAACADEMY hosts Carlo Ratti for an exclusive 45-minute open talk, followed by a 15-minute live Q&A. During the session, he will present key projects and share insights into the ideas, processes, and research directions that define his practice.

▶️ Getting Started with AI? Our YouTube Guides Are Live!

ComfyUI Desktop App Installation Guide

Whether 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 & ControlNet

Learn how to turn Rhino3D models into AI-driven conceptual renders using ComfyUI, SDXL, and ControlNet.

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.

Design-Tech Talk 11

Through a series of curated sessions, the event will investigate how emerging technologies continue to reshape creative practice and redefine the future of the built environment. The program brings together discussions around computational design, new digital tools, and the ongoing technological shifts influencing architecture and design today.

Pixel Interfaces: AI Workflows in ComfyUI

This workshop builds hands-on familiarity with local AI image generation using ComfyUI, working across 2D models and workflows to understand the direct relationship between generation speed, image quality, and computational cost.

Professional Jewelry Design with Rhino 8

The workshop focuses on the Rhino3D workflow for jewelry design, guiding students through the creation of jewelry pieces while learning the key commands and practical techniques for design and production. Participants will develop a solid foundation in digital jewelry modeling through real-world examples and industry-relevant projects.

 Explore Recent Courses

Dynamic Wearables For Fashion Design

This 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 Fabrication 

This 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 AI

In 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 Architecture

This 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.