Fishtnk is a Toronto based studio focused on multidisciplinary design, production and manufacturing in architecture and product design. Established in 2008 by Mani Mani as a side project to Fishbol Design Atelier, Fishtnk is an open-collaborative workshop to research, document and manufacture innovative processes.
Partners:
Mani Mani:
Mani Mani, [B.Arch.S. , MArch.] is a Toronto based designer.
Mani graduated from Carleton School of Architecture (B.Arch.S.) and University of Toronto, John H. Daniels faculty of Architecture, Landscape,& Design(MArch.) He is the Co-founder of Fishbol Design Atelier (established in 2005), a Multi-disciplinary design studio based in Toronto and the director of C&G Eyewear CANADA, Canadian operations at Cutler and Gross of London.
Mani has been collaborating with a number of architectural firms, design organizations and universities in the past few years. His latest research has been focused on smart systems in architecture and product design including a series of research projects on mass-customized design production, parametric furniture design and responsive systems with SPM (Studio for Progressive Modeling) at Halcrow Yolles Group. He has been a contributor to the Responsive Architecture at Daniels (R.A.D.) laboratory at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Architecture since 2008.
Mani’s Work has been published and reviewed internationally and his work has been exhibited in Canada and Europe.
link to Publications and awards…
Masoud Mohammadi:
M.S Architect – 1980 -Founding Director,
Masound is a international architect with award winning projects at SARVA architects international www.sarva.ca
Masound is the senior partner and managing director at Fishtnk INC. He overlooks the progress and growth of the company as we launch our fabrication and manufacturing division.
Collaborators:
Dina Sarhane:
Dina graduated from Carleton School of Architecture in 2006 and is currently completing her Master in Architecture at University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design.
Dina has had several years of international and domestic experience as an architectural designer, the most recent dealing heavily with design as a branding and marketing tool. She also has a strong passion for fashion design and has directed her experience toward re-branding fashion spaces through spatial manipulations, interior and furniture design.
She is a research associate and project manager of a research initiative at the University of Toronto called REMIX which aims to create an online “workspaces” for academic collaboration in the design field.
For more information visit www.dinasarhane.com
Amir Far:
Amir is a Toronto based developer of open hardware/software for design environments. Amir has been a collaborator at Fishtnk Design Factory and he manages of Fishtnk’s physical computation and embedded system projects. He is currently training for 2013 Dakar Bike Rally.
Jag Shival:
Jag Shival [B. Eng Comm] Carleton University 2009. Jag is a Toronto based installation artist, sculptor, engineer, and musician.
Jag is interested in interactive art pieces that explore human interactions with their surroundings and how technology has the ability to act as a medium to change our perception of space.
L.E.D.’s are one of Jag’s favorite mediums to work with due to their wide spectrum of colors and intensity they can produce. Using clear acrylic as a light guide, He creates sculptures that take advantage of the high refractive index of the acrylic and the vibrance of L.E.D.’s. The overall goals of these works are to challenge the idea of light as an external source of energy, and to help us understand and internalize that light has mass and a form.
Contact : Jag.Shival@Gmail.com
Matthew Fielding
Matthew Fielding [B.Arch.S. , MArch] graduated from Carleton School of Architecture (B.Arch.S.)in 2007 and McGill University (MArch.) in 2010. Matthew has worked variously as an intern architect, designer and freelance illustrator since 2006. He is currently living in Montréal, preparing for the 2014 olympics.
Contact : bird.nation@gmail.com
Navid Navab:
Navid is a Montreal based media-alchemist, composer, interaction and sound designer. Navid studied music performance and composition for many years and then Electroacoustics and Computational Arts at Concordia University as well as Music Technology at McGill University. Currently he is active as a sound designer and researcher at Topological Media Lab, Matralab, and IRCAM.
Navid creates real-time clouds and crystals of sound, engaging responsive sound design with improvisation, and theories of embodied cognition within various environments.Often in his practice, gestures, rhythms and vibrations from everyday life are mapped dynamically to sound generation parameters, resulting in augmented acoustical-poetry. Most of Navid’s investigations range from fixed compositions, to responsive architecture, interface design, theater, and improv based performances.
more information at http://www.navidnavab.net
Jerome Delapierre
Jerome works in France and in Canada, He’s pursuing studies in Contemporary Art and Communication, to develop his own artistic approach of computation and experimental arts. His research is explored the relationship between the socialization of art and direct interactivity, focusing on the experiences of urban social behaviour.
With this kind of interactions, people can manipulate the digital layer as a communication support and as a way to stimulate the potential of social exchanges.
The space and architecture are used as an interactive platform, an embodied interface.
Jerome is interested in new communication models and tools where the frontier between immateriality and physical reality become integrated and progressively intertwined/interdependent. This experimentation with human interaction in computational communication is founded on the premise that interaction design is in the beginning stages of sensory and real time exchange and those participants are just beginning to understand how to navigate this type of collaborative communication He works on interactive installations and immersive environments, He develop some responsive video projects with Hexagram at Concordia University, and work as a interaction designer and visual artist. Lately, He has collaborated with researchers and artists on various artistic and research projects, on visual interaction and communication. He’s also a member of Anartistic association, which stimulates new media artistic initiatives to develop an international network of “anartistic” creators.
more information : http://delapierrejerome.weebly.com/
* Design-thing: is something between a studio/atelier and a band, a collaborative environment that invests in creative processes as an outcome.