2024.10.02
Ibañez Kim is exhibiting Rolypolygon, a research project with Wit-o, at the Design Philadelphia Festival.

2024.05.12
Simon is presenting work from the Immersive Kinematics Lab at the 2024 IEEE ICRA International Conference in Robotics and Automation in Yokohama, Japan

2023.10.02
Simon is lecturing at the Pig iron Theatre Company’s Pig Iron School

2023.5.25
Mariana is interviewed by Madame Architect

2023.5
KaSa is a finalist for the Architizer A+ Awards for Private Residence

2022.10.27
Ibañez Kim is presenting new project Who Are We at the Weitzman Department of Architecture Exhibition, part of the ACADIA 2022 conference

2022.9.23
Simon is presenting Beyond the Binary at the GRASP Lab’s Research Overview Seminar at UPenn School of Engineering.

Photos by Aciel Nuñez

2022.7.22
Mariana and Simon were interviewed by the Archivo de Ideas Recibidas.

2022.7.18
Simon is presenting the work of work of Ibañez Kim at a workshop organized by Tsinghua University

 

Beyond the Binary, Mendelssohn Chorus

 

2022.5.15
IK and Immersive Kinematics is part of the world premiere commission of Beyond the Binary, a major new choral cantata by composer Andrea Clearfield with libretto by Ellen Frankel, presented by The Mendelssohn Chorus

2022.4.11
Mariana will be presenting the work of Ibañez Kim at the UIC School of Architecture Lecture Series

2022.4.7
Mariana and Simon will be presenting their work at the Angewandte: University of Applied Arts in Vienna in their SLIVER Lecture Series

2021.11.14
Mariana and Simon are teaching the 29th Inha University International Workshop, titled Synthetic Nature and Worldbuilding

2021.08.03
Ibañez Kim is presenting new work in Interaction and Augmented Reality at the the Venice Biennale of Architecture. The exhibition FEEDback: It’s About Time! is curated by Eric Goldemberg and presented in the Italian Pavilion. Mariana is a panelist with Anouk Wipprecht and Niccolo Casas.

2021.06.24
Ibañez Kim and Cafasso Design Group is presented with a Preservation Award from the Cambridge Historical Commission for Fayette House

2021.06.18
Ibañez Kim is presenting new work Kobugi in the exhibition One Object at a Time. The exhibition is curated by Ebrahim Poustinchi and presented at the A+D Museum

2021.02.10
Simon is presenting to the Thurgood Marshall College Fund on the work of the M.Arch program at UPenn

2021.02.08
Simon is presenting “The Raw and the Processed”, a lecture on new architectural homunculi from Ibañez Kim, to Montana State University

Photograph: Stephanie Mitchell

Photograph: Stephanie Mitchell

2021.01.11
Mariana is Associate Professor and Chair of the department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA

2020.11.22
Mariana and Simon discusses sound as design practice with GSD Radio on their “Practicing Spaces” series, based on the work of Melissa J Frost at iiiii columns

2020.11.16
Simon will be presenting “The Raw and the Processed”, as part of Penn’s GRASP Seminar Series

2020.10.20
Simon will be presenting “The Raw and the Processed”, a lecture on new architectural homunculi from Ibañez Kim, his students at University of Toronto and Penn, to Morgan State University

2020.8.11
Ibañez Kim is presenting their work in a conference: New Era, Micro-Renovation, and Great Health, organized by the CITIC group in Beijing

2020.7.3
Ibañez Kim is running a workshop Sensate and Augmented for the DigitalFUTURES.WORLD global event of lectures and programming

2020.7.3
Simon will be presenting the research of Ibañez Kim as a keynote speaker at the JEC Building and Infrastructure Forum, in Bangkok - postponed due to Covid-19

2020.4.4
Mariana will be presenting in the symposium Bio/ Techno: Synthetic realities exploring design discourses of the non-human, at Weitzman School of Design - postponed due to Covid-19

2020.3
Ibañez Kim is recognized with the title Outstanding Cultural Design, Massachusetts from the 2020 Design & Build Award Programme from BUILD Magazine

2020.3.24
Mariana will be presenting The Raw and the Processed: the work of Ibañez Kim, in the NYIT Spring Lecture Series - postponed due to Covid-19

2020.3.23
Mariana will be presenting in the symposium Provocations, around work in Latin America and the US, at Pratt Institute School of Architecture -postponed due to Covid-19

2020.1.24
Mariana will be a moderator at the conference Homing the Machine, at the Knowlton School of Architecture at OSU

2020.1.23
IK Studio is a recipient of an Honor Award for Design Excellence from the Boston Society of Architects

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PBS News Hour

2020.1.15
Simon is interviewed by Jeffrey Brown, senior correspondent of PBS News Hour, for the Quori project exhibited at the Designs for Different Futures show at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

2019.11.14
Mariana is hosting Mark Yim at MIT as part of their Architecture and Urbanism Cross-Talk series, and discussing his robotic research and its application in design work with Immersive Kinematics and Ibañez Kim

2019.10.31
Simon and Mark Yim are holding a public discussion of Quori as part of the Artist in the Lab series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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2019.10.15
Ibañez Kim is presenting their work at the Bienal Internacional Arquitectura de Buenos Aires in the FEEDback exhibition

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2019.10 - 2020.03
Ibañez Kim will show Quori at the Designs for Different Futures exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center

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2019.09
Ibañez Kim will be exhibiting The Heterotopial at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

2019.09
Mariana and Simon are visiting faculty at The Daniels School of Architecture at the University of Toronto

2019.06.24
Simon will be presenting a lecture and running a workshop at the University of the Arts

2019.04.13

Mariana will be taking part in the Turning Points in Architecture Design and Research Symposium at MIT

2019.03.15
Simon is presenting the work of Ibañez Kim and Immersive Kinematics at The University of Michigan

2019.03.13
Ibañez Kim is presenting Worlds within Worlds at Le Laboratoire Cambridge as part of their ArtScience lecture series

2019.02.14
Opening of Drawing Designing Thinking: 150 years of Teaching Architecture at MIT, at the MIT Museum. This is an exhibition designed by Ibañez Kim to showcase work from the oldest school of architecture in the United States. 

2019.02.11      
Simon will be presenting Wilderness and Homunculi as part of the Transect lecture series at NJIT

 
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2019.01.29     
Ibañez Kim is included in Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, at the Cooper Union

2018.11.01       
Mariana and Simon will be presenting their work for the Wentworth Institute of Technology series Project to Practice

2018.10.29     
Simon is presenting Compound Beings, Other Natures, as part of the lecture series at PennDesign

2018.10.15      
Ibañez Kim will be in the exhibition SEE-ing: The Environmental Consciousness Project, at UNCC

 
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2018.09        
Ibañez Kim has a music track, The Hate 1, 2, featured in a iiiii columns mixtape

2018.07.17     
Mariana is presenting at IASS 2018: Creativity in Structural Design

2018.06.18     
Mariana is an external examiner for the Architectural Association School of Architecture

2018.06.11     
Mariana is juror at the UCLA A.UD Rumble 

2018.03.05   
Simon is coauthor of a paper in Social Robots in the Wild, at The 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on HRI

2018.02.22   
Mariana will be presenting her work in the Taylor Seminar X: 10 Years of Design Research 

 
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2017.11           
Strange Weather has been selected to remain at the Donuimun Museum Village, with a residency for Ibañez Kim

2017.11.04     
Simon will be a Session Moderator at the ACADIA 2017 conference: Discipline and Disruption, hosted at MIT

2017.11           
Mariana is on the organizing committee as Technical Chair of the ACADIA 2017 conference: Discipline and Disruption, hosted at MIT

2017.10.18     
Simon will be presenting the collaborative work of Ibañez Kim to the dramatic arts students of the Pig Iron School

2017.09.08   
The opening performance of Sophia's Forest, an opera constructed with Lembit Beecher and supported by the Pew Center

 
 

2017.09.01  
Ibañez Kim will be exhibiting Strange Weathers at the inaugural Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism

2017.09.01  
Simon will be presenting the work of his Next Nature studio, taught at PennDesign, at the inaugural Seoul Biennale.

 

2017.07.01  
Mariana has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at MIT School of Architecture and Planning

2017.06.19  
Mariana will be in London as an external examiner to the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

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2017.06.08  
Simon has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, at the University of Pennsylvania

2017.06.05  
Simon and Mariana, with Andrew John Wit, have received a residency at the AutoDesk BUILD Space.

2017.05.31  
Mariana is teaching option studio for the Columbia University MSAAD summer program

 

2017.05.10  
Mariana will be in Beijing for an urban study and workshop for China JinMao Holdings Group 

2017.03.30  
Mariana will be speaking at the symposium Zaha Hadid: Pedagogy as Practice at Princeton University

2017.03.27  
Mariana will be presenting the work of Ibañez Kim at Ryerson University

2017.01.18    
Simon will be presenting Compound Beings and Next Nature at Temple University

2016.11.17      
Mariana will be giving a lecture and adjudicating awards at AIA Portland

2016.10.31    
Simon will be lecturing on Matter: from duration to architecture at the University of Minnesota  

2016.10.27    
A short film by Ibañez Kim has been selected for the 2016 International Festival of Landscape Architecture

2016.10.17    
Ibañez Kim will be presenting VITRIOL at the Secret Life of Buildings exhibition

2016.10.05  
Simon will be presenting Curated Sentience in Architecture at the Seoul National University

 

2016.10.01  
The publication that Mariana organized and edited is available: a+t 46 Organization or Design? 

2016.09.16  
Mariana will present Lights On at the Heliomorphism Conference at the Harvard University GSD

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2016.09.12  
Simon is presenting a workshop and lecture on Sensate Architecture to the Indian Architects Association Karnataka with Huddle in Bangalore

2016.09.09  
Mariana will be presenting Nano to Planetary at Columbia University  GSAPP Processing Design Panel Discussion 

2016.08.22  
Simon will present research at the eCAADe Conference in Finland

2016.06.29  
Ibañez Kim will present two projects at ACSA International Conference in Chile

2016.06.16  
Mariana is interviewed by TheEditorial

2016.03.30  
Mariana is giving the lecture Drama Queens at Le Laboratoire

rolyPOLYgon
 

2016.03      
Ibañez Kim has an article of the rolyPOLYgon in 3DP+

2016.01      
Simon is invited as a workshop tutor for the ZHA studio at Yale University 

2015.11.09  
Mariana is presenting the work of Ibañez Kim at Auburn University

2015.10.22  
Simon has a paper on Soft Robotics in Architecture being presented at ACADIA 2015

2015.10.15  
Mariana has organized the symposium Organization or Design for Harvard GSD with accompanying publication

2015.10.08  
Simon is presenting the work of Ibanez Kim at Hanyang University, Seoul.

2015.10.02  
Mariana is moderating a panel discussion at the Chicago Architecture Biennial

2015.09.18  
Ibañez Kim has been invited to participate in the third Beakerhead Festival in Calgary

2015.09      
Simon is co-PI for a three-year research project that has been funded by the National Science Foundation

2015.07.29  
Ibañez Kim will be presenters and panelists at The Present and Future of 3D Design hosted at IDEO

2015.07.19  
Ibañez Kim presents The Minister of Arts and Culture, a new work commissioned for Play Day, at the Lawn on D

2015.07.15  
Mariana will be presenting IK Studio recent work for Socrates & Archleague, BSA, MoMA, LawnonD, and Beakerhead at Columbia University

2015.06.17  
Ibañez Kim will be installing Step 7 at the Bigger Than A Breadbox, Smaller Than A Building exhibition at the BSA Boston

2015.06.15
IK is part of a Pew Center for Arts and Heritage grant with composer Lembit Beecher

2015.05.17  
Ibañez Kim will be presenting Torqueing Spheres at the Socrates Sculpture Park in partnership with the Architectural League New York

2015.04.25  
Ibañez Kim will be presenting The Immersive at the Active Matter Summit organized by the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT

2015.04.03  
Simon will be moderating a panel on Digital Prosthetics within the Non Discrete Architectures conference at UPenn

2015.02      
Ibañez Kim will be leading a workshop and installation on The Immersive, and presenting the lecture Drama Queens, at the EVDS in Calgary

2014.12.13  
Ibañez Kim is presenting Orpheus and Eurydice: Electromechanic Redux at the Slought Foundation

2014.11.07  
Simon is presenting at the ACSA Conference in Philadelphia

2014.10.25  
Mariana is presenting co-edited volume Paradigms in Computing at the ACADIA conference at USC

2014.10.15  
Ibañez Kim is installing APoC, a prototype shelter, at Toronto City Hall

2014.09.11  
Simon is presenting research in theatre to the American Repertoire Council

2014.05.09  
Simon is giving a presentation On Prototypes at the Working Models Forum at McGill University

2014.03.21  
Simon is producing the Patarchitecture Exhibition at the Slought Foundation

2014.01.29  
Ibañez Kim is exhibiting centriPETAL at the Possible Mediums Exhibition in Ann Arbor

2013.03-04  
Ibañez Kim is exhibiting the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the ICA@50 show , produced with Billy Dufala and a RAIR residency for Simon

2013.12.13    
Ibañez Kim is presenting Music of the Planets , produced with Grace Kelly Music and ModLab

2013.11.11      
Ibañez Kim is giving a lecture and workshop on the Modular and Synthetic , at SPSU

2013.02.22  
Simon is presenting in the New Normal Conference at PennDesign

2013.06.08  
Mariana is teaching a workshop and lecturing on Platform 5  at the Takenaka A4 Gallery in Tokyo

2013.05.09  
Ibañez Kim is working with the Dufala Brothers and RAIR  to produce the Nervous Matter exhibition at Traction Company

2013.03.28  
Ibañez Kim is exhibiting their work and lecturing at the University of Calgary

2013.03.12    
Mariana is presenting the work of John Portman at Harvard Graduate School of Design

2013.02.22  
Ibañez Kim is presenting Side Effects in the Under the Influence Conference at MIT

2013.02.16    
Simon is moderating a discussion with director Hirata Oriza following the performance of Robot Human Theatre

2013.02.07  
Ibañez Kim is participating and running a workshop on Dynamic Shells at Possible Mediums

2013.01.05  
Simon is visiting faculty at Yale University for the spring semester

2012.11.21      
Ibañez Kim is giving a lecture at Escuela de Arquitectura in Puerto Rico

2012.11.18      
Ibañez Kim will present Augmented Architecture at TEDx Beacon Street  in Boston

2012.11.18      
Ibañez Kim is in a panel discussion with Sanford Kwinter Skylar Tibbits on Proofs  at PennDesign

2012.10        
Ibañez Kim has a proposal of Space Station Manhattan presented in Past Futures, Present, Futures  at Storefront for Art and Architecture

2012.10.27    
Mariana is presenting work with dance for the Science per Forms Symposium at Bryn Mawr

2012.10.25  
Ibañez Kim is working with Carbon Dance Theatre on Science per Forms

2012.10.11    
Ibañez Kim is presenting and discussing video with SsD Architects for Movie Matter

2012.09       
Publication of GSD Platform 5, edited and designed by Mariana Ibañez

2012.07.01  
Mariana Ibañez is promoted to Associate Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design

2012.06.26
Cloud Cloak presented at Young Architects Forum, AIA Philadelphia

2012.06.22  
Design of Nomad for KCRW is on display at Dwell on Design

2012.04.26  
Ibañez Kim will be presenting with the Dufala Brothers at the ICA

2012.04        
Beyond Mechanics cluster of SmartGeometry highlighted on Archinect

2012.04        
Beyond Mechanics cluster of SmartGeometry is on Huffington Post

2012.03.19  
Ibañez Kim and AltN present a workshop at Smart Geometry

2012.03      
Simon Kim is interviewed on SuckerPunch

2012.03.14  
Ibañez Kim presents Future Forward at Penn State University

2012.01        
Simon Kim is Visiting Faculty at Harvard GSD

2011.11    
Ibañez Kim is selected as finalist for MoMA PS1

2011.11.14  
Mariana presents A Dress, a Canopy, a City at Harvard GSD

2011.10.19  
Ibañez Kim installs and presents The Philadelphia Masque at the Center for Architecture