# Design-Tech Talk 6.0

> Join us for Design-Tech Talk 6.0, an exclusive and engaging panel discussion featuring distinguished experts, each offering unique insights into the latest advancements in architecture, design innovation, and emerging technologies reshaping industries today. Design-Tech Talk 6.0…

## At a glance

- Format: On-demand course
- Price: €30.00 (list €60.00)
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Duration: 6 Hours
- Schedule: Aug 17-18, 2025
- Instructors: Hamid Hassanzadeh, Olaf Olden, Nicolas Sterling, Elke Sterling-Presser, Ladan Vojdanzade, Jacob Lehrer
- Categories: Conferences
- Students: 461
- Rating: 5.0 / 5
- Access: Member-only
- Canonical: https://paacademy.com/course/design-tech-talk-6-0
- Enroll: https://paacademy.com/course/design-tech-talk-6-0

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## About this course

Design-Tech Talk 6.0 is a free, two-day event exploring the latest innovations in architecture, design, and technology.

## What you'll learn

- Frameworks for embedding parametric design, environmental performance, and BREEAM standards into architectural practice.
- Methods for post-carbon architecture, circular design, and interdisciplinary engineering-architectural workflows.
- Strategies behind site-specific sustainable design, robotic clay printing, and advanced digital fabrication.
- Techniques in transformable design systems, scissor-like mechanisms, and kinetic geometry using Grasshopper.

## Curriculum

### Day 1
- Intro + PAACADEMY Updates (10:28)
- Olaf Olden (01:03:39)
- Jacob Lehrer (54:12)
- Elke Sterling-Presser & Nicolas Sterling (01:24:40)

### Day 2
- Fixed-Angle Scissor Curves (01:04:18)
- Modeling Transformable Scissors (01:19:25)
- Dynamic Scissor Geometry (33:51)
- Triangular Scissor Mechanism (38:12)