The deliverable will report on progress and outcomes of workshop-seminar 2. The workshop-seminar is a three part event with the scientific foci: 2.1) Communication design: Identifying methods for interdisciplinary collaboration. 2.2) Simulating design: Introducing virtual prototyping strategies and for new material practice. 2.3) Materialising design: Introducing novel materials for robotically steered fabrication. Innochain Network Journal #3 Welcome to Innochain Network Journal #3 assembled and edited by KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. Since Network Journal#2 that covered the 1st year Colloquium, Innochain has organized the Midterm Review events hosted by IAAC in Barcelona at the research centre and Self Sufficient Labs in Valdaura coupled with three parallel workshop-seminars, Workshop-seminar 2.1: Design Communication in Shared Virtual Space led by Damjan Minovski, Workshop-seminar 2.2: Simulation Fundamentals: The Lattice led by Pablo Miranda and Workshop-seminar 2.3: Materialising Design - Extending the Vocabulary of 3D Printing led by Alexandre Dubor and Raimund Krenmüller. As Innochain now moved into the second half of its programme, we see how the ESRs are advancing their research, repositioning themselves in relation to the current use of digital design in building culture, investigating more integrative approaches to early stage design and enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration. The Midterm Review provided an important opportunity for the Innochain network to focus the efforts of ESRs, Academic and Industry Partners. The Workshop-seminars that were organized right after the Midterm Review at IAAC, supported the ESRs in formulating perspectives on their own research in dialogue with workshop leaders and colleagues. We can now see how each ESR research promises concrete contributions to the field, and how they are right now furthering their collaborations with industry partners. We can see this, for example, in the development of demonstrators such as the FlectoFold large scale demonstrator, an elastic-kinetic materialgradient facade component system designed by Saman Saffarian (ESR12); Tom Svilans (ESR02) and industry partner Blumer Lehmann have developed techniques to integrate scanning and feedback technologies into glulam production and with White arkitekter in Stockholm has looked at how his research can inform emerging timber-based projects. Many of the ESRs are engaging in reassessing workflow between different expertise and different users, and exchange during the design process. Dimitrie Stefanescu (ESR05) in his research and development of the Speckle platform, challenges existing design communication standards such as BIM, and intends to improve the communication flows throughout the whole value chain. By developing different software tools to help expert users to get a better overview over large amounts of data, Paul Poinet (ESR06) is also looking at ways of improving this workflow. Zeynep Aksoz (ESR04) in her research is developing a design methodology that considers the possibility of engaging multiple criteria, assessing design performance of multiple variations at early design phase. She has recently been working with physical design artefacts, learning from physical feedback during a stay at IAAC where she conducted experiments with students on so called ‘Zeer Pots’. Wood as a dynamically active material on an architectural scale is being furthered in the research of Efilena Baseta (ESR07), where she is currently developing a 1:1 scale robotically fabricated timber At KTH, Vasily Sitnikov (ESR09) has been developing simulations of ice erosion in conversation with Pablo Miranda Carranza. In his research project, ice is used for the production of CNC-milled ice formwork for a sustainable fabrication of non-standard concrete elements. Many of the ESRs have produced papers and presented their research at conferences during this early fall, for example at the Design Modelling Symposium in Paris, eCAADe in Rome, IBPSA in San Fransisco, at IASS in Hamburg and at ACADIA in Cambridge. As the research projects by the ESRs have reached a level of maturity, we have seen more demonstrators produced and disseminated through conferences and exhibitions. The Innochain network and programme has a focus on three main fields; Communicating design, Simulation for design, Materialising design. We are now seeing synergies between these fields where both computation and material feedback are central to the unfolding of the research. We are very proud to present the current state of the research by each of the ESRs in Innochain Network Journal #3.