Tom Svilans

CTO at Omtre AS (NO), researcher at @citacph at the @kglakademi (DK), roots in CA and LV.
Passionate about architecture, making, music, and computation.

[Tom Svilans @spilans]

Thrilled to receive the DigitalFUTURES Young Award today!
The award is for exceptional contributions to the field of digital design and fabrication for early-career researchers.

[CarletonArchitecture @CarletonU_Arch]

Congrats to Instructor Dina Sarhane, whose firm DS Studio recently completed a collaborative public art project in North Kelowna, BC! The Lodestar is 7.5 metres tall and made of Yellow Alaskan Cedar and custom steel braces. With @fishtnk  and @spilans. https://t.co/XDQoRpnqTL

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

Today Latvia and Latvians all around the world celebrate the 105th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Independence!

We thank our friends and allies for your support and friendship, and we invite you join us celebrating this great day

Happy Birthday Latvia! 🇱🇻🇱🇻🇱🇻

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Happy 105th Independence Day, you beautiful, wonderful Latvian people. ♥️

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

On this day in 1989, 2 million people across the occupied Baltic states yearning for freedom were - at this moment - finding their place in the longest unbroken chain in history.

For those of you that were there, tell us your memories and show us your photos.

[Tom Svilans @spilans]

@FreyaHolmer Elbow length

[Peter barber @PpeterPeter]

A new street we dreamed up in norf London..half of it is affordable housing ….lovely sunshine yesterday

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

In case you wonder how much the countries in Central Eastern Europe once occupied by the Soviets today support Ukraine, this video is for you.

Today, a choir of 16 000 Latvians sang the Ukrainian national anthem in front of a crowd of dozens of thousands

Ukraine will win!

🇱🇻🇺🇦

[Baiba Braže @Braze_Baiba]

Ukraine’s🇺🇦 anthem at the Latvian National Song & Dance celebration, where 30k participants and 100s thousands spectators gather every five years.

Impressive and very moving. Let it give strength to #Ukraine in the Liberation War.

#StandWithUkraine

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

National song & dance festivals are now underway in both Latvia & Estonia.

These Baltic festivals (in Lithuania too) are listed by UNESCO as ‘Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity’. They include some of the largest joint choirs in the world with more than 30,000 performing on stage together.

They’re essential for understanding the history and culture of our nations.

For Latvia, it’s the big 150th anniversary taking place. Here in Estonia (shown in this video), it’s the youth version of the festival this year.

No bad take here. Well, it’s a badly taken video. Nothing can come close to conveying the incredible atmosphere of these occasions until you come and experience it.

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

This is a great take down of 'The Line' in @Nature.

If you wanted to create a truly connected city, you'd build 'The Circle' not 'The Line'

https://t.co/poFqTZ3XO2

[Tom Svilans @spilans]

A heartfelt thanks to my fellow researchers and colleagues at @CITAcph and @kglakademi , and the many other collaborators and partners along the way!

[Tom Svilans @spilans]

Thrilled to receive the DigitalFUTURES Young Award today!
The award is for exceptional contributions to the field of digital design and fabrication for early-career researchers.

[Tom Svilans @spilans]

I am interested in how information is created and flows between processes and actors across the so-called timber value chain. I develop tools and workflows for modelling timber structures and elements, simulating their behavior, and creating instructions for their fabrication.

[Bad Baltic Takes @BadBalticTakes]

Tomorrow is a day of mourning across the Baltic countries, marking the start of Moscow’s mass deportations in 1941.

Much of the world just doesn’t get the horror of it - either historically or today in Ukraine.

Does anyone want to help them by sharing their family story?

[zach lieberman @zachlieberman]

who is doing high end computational based woven work? I'm looking for examples of artists but also places that are producing interesting work....

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Historic: Wind + solar produced more EU electricity than fossil fuels in May, for 1st month on record, as Europe’s energy transition hits hyperdrive

Decarbonization outlook: fossil fuel demand globally will go into terminal decline from 2025

https://t.co/ZkzHqm83Dp #climate

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

Is there anything we *can’t* build out of wood?

First radio mast built from mass timber in Germany

https://t.co/twlhL69abO

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The amazing art of Virgil Finlay (1914–1971), a largely self-taught artist and one of the most important science fiction pulp illustrators of all time

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

The original ‘tall timber’

Stacks of timber drying at Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Company Mill, 1919