[PRACTICUM] MSDMT 700
PROFESSOR
CATIE NEWELL,
MARK MEIER
Practicum
DMT Practicum serves as an intensive launch into the Digital and Material Technologies program with 3 major goals:
1. An intensive tooling-up
2. The development of production logics
3. Conscious decision assessment
Students synthesize accumulated skills and concepts through a deeper investigation into the relationships between digital / physical, design / making, and tools / output. We will work together to communicate synergies between what is built and its impacts in the larger material or digital environment and user groups.
The shown projects are examples of:
BY-LAYER: This project utilizes the mid-size Kuka robots to explore clay extrusion as a means to construct a larger architectural system that uses modules to investigate ideas of material waste, energy consumption, re-use/re-configuration, environmental inputs, and material and immaterial properties.
PRECISE FIT: Using a 3-axis CNC router to create parts which can be assembled in various ways to enclose a volume. Parts are designed to be multi-purpose so they can be reconfigured to change the shape and size of the space they enclose. This exercise allows for an intertwined discussion between the mass of the material and the volume it contains.
1. An intensive tooling-up
2. The development of production logics
3. Conscious decision assessment
Students synthesize accumulated skills and concepts through a deeper investigation into the relationships between digital / physical, design / making, and tools / output. We will work together to communicate synergies between what is built and its impacts in the larger material or digital environment and user groups.
The shown projects are examples of:
BY-LAYER: This project utilizes the mid-size Kuka robots to explore clay extrusion as a means to construct a larger architectural system that uses modules to investigate ideas of material waste, energy consumption, re-use/re-configuration, environmental inputs, and material and immaterial properties.
PRECISE FIT: Using a 3-axis CNC router to create parts which can be assembled in various ways to enclose a volume. Parts are designed to be multi-purpose so they can be reconfigured to change the shape and size of the space they enclose. This exercise allows for an intertwined discussion between the mass of the material and the volume it contains.