264: If everything is connected, why do we still design in silos? | Tore Banke - TREDJE NATUR

I took my bachelor's in, in Aarhus at the time.

Uh, and, uh, as many others, I, I, I traveled to, to Copenhagen to do my, uh, internship.

Uh, I was at, at Cobe at the time.

I think we were, like five people, including Dan, at the moment, so it was really in the-

Early days

... early days.

[laughs] But, uh, one of the reasons also that I went to Copenhagen was that they had, um, the first computational, uh, master, uh, co- uh, course, uh, at the school, uh, there.

So I, I applied and, and got in, so, uh, I, I, I took my, uh, my, my, my, uh, my master's degree in, in, in Copenhagen focusing on computational, uh, design.

At the time, it was quite advanced, uh, software, uh, called, uh, uh, Generative Components.

Uh, one of them Software that was only accessible to very large international, uh, uh, companies with, uh, big, uh, specialist, uh, groups.

But in 2007, Grasshopper, uh, kind of came on, on the market.

Uh-

Just for those who don't know-

Yes

... what Grasshopper is.

Yes.

So I mean, uh, for the, uh, it, it's a, it's a computational software.

It's a visual programming language.

So it's, it's a software that you have, uh, right now it's, it's actually embedded into, uh, into Rhino.

I think, um, a lot of people, uh, know the software already and, uh, and it's, um, software where instead of, um, like dr- making classical, uh, drawings, you can make, um, a relationship between, uh, the geometry.

And, uh, and that really fascinated me a, a lot.

Not to make complex shapes.

Like, there was a big movement also you probably n- uh, heard about, like kind of, uh, you know, uh, parametric design and these things.

It was very much kind of related to the geometry side of things.

That you can design almost anything you want.