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BUBBLES Opening Reception September 15th – 6 to 10PM Bubbles, The new open-air interactive installation at Materials & Applications opens september 15th. Join us to celebrate the opening of this responsive inflatable environment. This event takes place during the kick-off of Art Crawl. Bicycles will be available at M&A on loan (with picture id) so that visitors can pedal around Silver Lake, Echo Park, and los feliz to see what's on at the other galleries. This interactive installation is a spatially adaptable pneumatic environment at an urban scale. The installation consists of large air-bags or "bubbles" that inflate and deflate in reaction to the visitors coming to the site. For more information and to follow our progress during the final weeks, visit: ibubbles.blogspot.com or www.emanate.org. Bubbles was create by Foxlin (Michael Fox and Juintow Lin) and NONDesigns (Miao Miao and Scott Franklin) with Axel kilian, Gabriel Renz, Darius Miller, and numerous volunteers. Many thanks to our sponsors : the Annenberg Foundation, the Pasadena Art Alliance, Fountainhead, Dazian Fabrics, M&K Metal Company, and Furniture Technologies Inc. BLOW UP YOUR MIND Presentations and Conversations Sept./Dec. 2006 - Wednesdays, 8PM- 5$ donation. A lecture series "among the pods" will illuminate this new installation. The speakers, including Natalie Jeremijenko, George Yu, Robert Miles Kemp, Jen Silbert, Dennis Dollen, Michael Fox and NONdesigns, will discuss the uses of biological networks and systems as models to develop interactive and responsive architecture. All the lectures are scheduled on wednesday nights at 8pm. More details to follow! GREEN YOUR ROOF Learn how & why to construct a green roof garden Sept.30th 2006, 11am – 5pm With Freya Bardell M&A will be hosting a Green Roof and Living Architecture workshop on Saturday september 30th from noon to 6PM. The workshop will start with a lecture on the benefits of creating living membranes upon built surfaces. The rest of the day will be dedicated to install a basic green roof system on the roof of M&A. Participants will also have the opportunity to assist a research project by creating a portable roof tile. Over the course of a year, plant data will be recorded by all the participants in the project, then shared with the public. We hope to gain knowledge on whether our selected plant species will thrive within the Los Angeles bioregion. Ecological designer, Freya Bardell draws inspiration from the evolving discourse about nature, technology and art, utilizing biomimetic techniques in her designs. She is committed to conserving the environment and increasing biodiversity by intelligently utilizing our natural, ecological and cultural resources. She works for the living architecture firm, Rana Creek, and is the founder of Greenmeme, a Los Angeles based design collective. Space is limited – please register by emailing contact@emanate.org 35$ material fee is required. Let's Build Something Beautiful! Materials & Applications * * M&A is an experimental architecture and landscape research center with a unique outdoor exhibit space that is designed to be visible from the street. Twice yearly, the site hosts new outdoor installations. We encourage use of sustainable resources, renewable energy and smart technologies to push new and underused ideas for landscape and architecture into view. Since 2002 Materials & Applications has explored building techniques and new materials through a series of outdoor installations. The summer 2005 installation, Maximilian's Schell, by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues won an AIA Design Honors award and the ID Magazine 2006 best of category award for environmental design. Here there Be Monsters, our current installation (spring/summer 2006) also won an AIA Design Honors award. M&A is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dependent upon your donations. To be REMOVED from our volunteer email list, reply to this email with only the word "REMOVE" in the subject line.