Welcome to an international, cross-disciplinary platform offering ideas exchange, knowledge transfer, and networking. Be inspired by leading thinkers and makers and interact with peers from research and industry as we strengthen our cluster around large-scale biobased additive and digital manufacturing.

• International speakers - innovators, researchers and industry players working in the fields of design and architecture, technology and additive production and in material sciences for the development of new techniques and ideas in the future manufacturing and construction industry
• Expo with experiential prototypes, deliverables and demonstrations of the work and explorations done within the +Project. The celebrative opening for the Expo will be on the 30th of May in the afternoon
• Workshops and panel discussions
  

The event is free to attend thanks to European Regional Funding.

Excerpts from the Conference Program

Keynote speakers

• Birgitta Ralstone and Alexandre Bau
  Ralstone & Bau Design Studio, Bergen, Norway

Session 1. Design

• Co-living with wood
  Kasper Ax, AJG Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  
• Lifelong design based on principles of new lightness
  Manja van de Worp, Nous Engineering, London, England
  
  

Session 2. Production

• Innovative power of additive manufacturing and the reality behind it
  Vladimir Navrotsky, Siemens Distributed Generation Service Business Unit, Finspång, Sweden
  
  
• Space Frames, Bone Structures and 3D Printing Off-World Habitats
  Richard Maddock, Fosters & Partners, London, England
  
  
• "The BOD" – A construction project in Copenhagen
  Jakob Jörgensen, 3D Printhuset, Copenhage, Denmark
  
  

Session 3. Biobased materials

• Biomimicry and nano-materials
  Oded Shoseyov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

• Bio-based Material Experiences
  Elvin Karana, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Nederland

For a full and updated program and information on travel, accommodation and speakers, please click here.

Application deadline: May 25, at 15 PM

The conference coincides with a large music- and sports festival in Umeå, so please make sure to book your accommodation and travel in good time.

A no-show-fee will be charged in case of non-participation and/or cancellation after May 23rd.