{"id":305,"date":"2014-12-02T18:41:26","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T18:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/au-2014-tuesday-highlights\/"},"modified":"2016-01-21T18:59:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:59:56","slug":"au-2014-tuesday-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/autodesk-university\/au-2014-tuesday-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"AU 2014: Tuesday highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Exhibit Hall is open<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re here in Las Vegas, remember that we\u2019re unveiling our fabulous Exhibit Hall tonight at 6:30! Get ready for bold and beautiful immersive exhibits, hands-on demos, and volunteer activities\u2014across an expansive and updated physical space. Because it's such a great place to be, we'll be serving lunch here tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Opening Keynote<\/strong>
Jeff Kowalski and Carl Bass got this party started with an inspirational keynote delivered to a packed house. Jeff walked the audience through the reality of the future of making things. Epic changes are afoot! Carl shared several recent developments at Autodesk that have helped to shatter the glass between the digital world and the physical world. Emily Pilloton described the organization she founded, Project H, including the deeply moving projects undertaken by her amazing young students. This is what the design revolution looks like.<\/p>\n

You can watch the Keynote Address<\/a> online.<\/p>\n

\"Carl\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Innovation Forum<\/strong>
This afternoon Building and Architecture professionals gathered to hear our panel address The Future of How Buildings Are Made: A Stimulant for Your Next Project. What we learned is that the explosion of digital context is changing everything we know about the design and construction of the built environment. Fascinating case studies illustrated various challenges and how they were resolved with new technologies, including BIM and collaboration tools that can be used on projects with dizzying layers of complexity.<\/p>\n

Alan Ricks, co-founder of MASS Design Group, described how his organization works globally to promote and build architecture that has a positive impact on communities. In Rwanda, a beautifully designed hospital has driven improvements in health outcomes, and rural housing attracts doctors. As one of his architects puts it, beauty is dignity.<\/p>\n

We also heard from a team at Walt Disney Imagineering that designed a Renaissance castle in Shanghai; Ken Wiseman, president of Design Services at CannonDesign; BIM pioneer and NYU professor James Vandezande; Chris Horne, an urban planner at Sasaki Associates in Massachusetts; and others.<\/p>\n

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Classes<\/strong>
Today\u2019s speakers knocked out few hundred sessions total, with topics running the gamut from \u201cSocial Involvement in Urban Planning with Laser Scanning\u201d to \u201cWind Simulation in Robot Structural Analysis Professional\u201d and everything in between. To find out which generated the most enthusiasm, check out the mobile app<\/a> or follow the conversation at #AU2014.  <\/p>\n

\"Classes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Exhibit Hall is open<\/p>\n

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