GenerativeComponents training will not be offered on location at SmartGeometry 2010, but instead will be offered at a variety of locations prior to the start of the SG2010 Workshops including Istanbul, London, and Sydney. Bentley are also offering online training for all SG2010 Workshop applicants regardless of their acceptance into the Workshop. All applicants will receive an email directly from Bentley with information on this offer.

Onsite training sessions are also open to non-SG2010 Workshop Applicants, however SG2010 Workshop Applicants will receive priority access.

The main goal of the GenerativeComponents training workshop is to guide participants to reach a competency and comfort level with this parametric design system that will allow them to:

explore their own design challenges;
develop parametrically driven solution systems by generating design elements and defining relationships between them; and
investigate potential design solutions within or outside of the implicit solution spaces in those systems through

parametric manipulation of their parametric designs or
modification of the relationships between design elements

This will be achieved by introducing participants to a broad range of functionality in GenerativeComponents and by discussing with participants major ideas of parametric design. The workshop will introduce attendees to two of three main approaches of designing with GenerativeComponents, model-based and script-based. Hands-on participation will be maximized throughout the workshop. The workshop also will provide opportunity to discuss more advanced topics of GenerativeComponents as well as algorithmic and parametric approaches to design problem solving while knowledgeable support is at hand.

Madrid, Spain
Date: 8th - 9th February 2010
Location: Bentley Madrid office
Tutors: Eduardo Cortes Bentley Systems
Registration contact: Ana Rolan [email protected]

Sydney, Australia
Date: 10th - 11th February 2010
Location: University of New South Wales
Tutors: Dominik Holzer
Registration contact: Dominik Holzer [email protected]

London, UK
Date: 12 February 2010 - to be confirmed
Location: Metropolitan University - to be confirmed
Tutors: The SmartGeometry Group
Registration contact: TBD

Istanbul, Turkey
Date: 13-14th February 2010
Location: İstanbul Bilgi University, Graduate Program in Architectural Design Google Map
Tutors: Onur Yüce Gün, Volker Mueller
Registration contact: Onur Yüce Gün [email protected]