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Digital Design + Fabrication Graduate Certificate Program
The Graduate Certificate Program in Digital Design and Fabrication is designed to prepare students to develop a skill set with digital information, while at the same time directly engage industry partners in an open and collaborative environment. This Program is inherently interdisciplinary and is targeted at design professionals, fabricators, and manufacturers. The bundle of courses is intended to introduce students to the interconnections between disciplines through the management of digital information, reinforcing the total design through production process.
Identified by Architect Magazine for Excellence in Digital Design and Fabrication
Ball State’s College of Architecture and Planning is one of three schools identified for excellence in Digital Design and Fabrication by Architect Magazine.
Discovery Grant Awarded for Indiana Limestone Research
i.M.A.D.E was recently awarded a Discovery Foundation Grant for continuing research on integrating digital technologies with the Indiana Limestone industry. Our proposal, entitled “Smart Stone”, will apply emerging digital design technologies to increase efficiencies and minimize waste in the manufacturing of limestone building components. We aim to address a very old, but persistent problem in [...]
Manufacturing Material Effects Book
Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture, edited by Branko Kolarevic and Kevin R. Klinger and published by Routledge. Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.
Spot on Schools Exhibition
9-17 July
i.M.A.D.E exhibits work at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy.
Workshop: University of Calgary
i.M.A.D.E was invited to conduct a series of workshops at the University of Calgary’s Environmental Design Faculty.
Klinger: SIGraDi Keynote
Kevin Klinger delivers the keynote lecture at the 2009 Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) Conference on November 18, 2009 at the FAU Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Sao Paulo, Brasil. Klinger’s lecture was entitled: “Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture.”
Additionally, Klinger presented a paper at the conference entitled: “Digital Design through Production Pedagogy: [...]
Lecture: Florida Atlantic University
Kevin Klinger delivers a lecture entitled: “Manufacturing Material Effects and the Institute for Digital Fabrication, Ball State University” at Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 24, 2009.
Lecture: Universidade Estadual de Campinas: Unicamp
Kevin Klinger delivers a lecture entitled: “Manufacturing Material Effects and the Institute for Digital Fabrication, Ball State University” at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas: Unicamp in Campinas, Brasil on November 19, 2009.
Lecture: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Kevin Klinger delivers a lecture entitled: “Manufacturing Material Effects and the Institute for Digital Fabrication, Ball State University” at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil on November 13, 2009.
ACADIA 2009
Mahesh Senagala and Joshua Vermillion present their paper entitled “An Inconvenient Studio” at the 2009 ACADIA Conference in Chicago.
i.M.A.D.E mentioned in The Architectural Review
i.M.A.D.E Director, Kevin Klinger, was quoted in the September 2009 issue of The Architectural Review. The article, written by Karin Templin, recounts the work on display at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy (July 2009).
Lecture: California Polytechnic State University
Kevin Klinger gives a lecture at California Polytechnic State University’s (San Luis Obispo) College of Architecture and Environmental Design on October 9, 2009. More information on Klinger’s lecture and Cal Poly’s lecture series (entitled: “Integrated Practices”) can be found here.
Smart Scrap
The Institute for Digital Fabrication at Ball State University are testing ecological design strategies for the building industry following a generous Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Award. The research uses a digital database of component pieces from available scrap material, digitally catalogs waste products from the building industry specifically the [...]
Morpholuminescence
Developed by students from “An Inconvenient Studio”, MorphoLuminescence utilizes an understanding of fashion photography to find its form and provide optimized lighting, enhancing the experience of trying on clothing. A three-point lighting set up is commonly used by fashion photographers, arranging a bright key light above eye level, in combination with softer fill and back [...]
Arcus Animus
Arcus Animus is a kinetic mesh system designed by Waterloo Architecture/Philip Beesley Architect Inc., in collaboration with Ball State’s Inconvenient Studio/i.M.A.D.E (Senagala/Vermilion) and Pratt Institute Epithelium Studio (Beesley/Sarrach/Wang). Fabricated and installed in four days, the hanging, layered meshwork composed of impact-resistant acrylic, bamboo, and mylar components reacts to human occupation interpreted by arrayed proximity sensors. [...]
An Inconvenient Studio
In spring 2009, An Inconvenient Studio was conducted at Ball State University with an aim to innovate through active strategies in environmental design (in distinction to passive design), digital technologies, robotics, interactive architecture, and collaborative design approaches that challenge conventional models of studio education. Known by many names (interactive architecture, responsive architecture, smart environments, intelligent [...]
Philip Beesley : Workshop + Lecture
Philip Beesley from Waterloo Architecture/Philip Beesley Architect Inc. visited Ball State along with Brad Rothenberg of Pratt Institute to conduct a physical computing workshop for An Inconvenient Studio. The resulting installation from this four-day workshop is a kinetic mesh system entitled Arcus Animus.
The hanging, layered meshwork composed of impact-resistant acrylic, bamboo, and mylar components reacts to human [...]
Bodhi Tree
Using a hand-assembled notch/slip joint system, the “Bodhi Tree” was formed from self-similar laser cut veneer components with no hardware. The curvature and tension of twisting the veneer strengthened each unit to form a stable and resilient lattice.
Luminaires
i.M.A.D.E encourages design students to focus on the creation of unique prototypes based on material interrogations and market viability. Students are actively developing business plans and exploring commercial outlets for design prototypes based on emphasizing the production of ready-made, yet customizable products. Indiana has a long tradition of producing hardwood veneer from regionally harvested trees. [...]
Luminaires exhibited at Tech Point 2009 Innovation Summit
The latest hardwood veneer Luminaire prototypes were exhibited at the Tech Point 2009 Innovation Summit.
Manufacturing Material Effects Exhibition
The Manufacturing Material Effects Exhibition, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, framed and displayed the design and material production work of leading international designers and fabricators who participated in the Manufacturing Material Effect international symposium, and subsequent book release from Routledge Press. Designed, fabricated, and installed by a design studio working closely with industry partners [...]
Stephen Deters (UCLA) : Deterskraft Workshop
Stephen Deters from UCLA visited i.M.A.D.E as a research fellow to conduct a 3-day studio workshop to examine the performative capacities of materials–specifically, $20,000 worth of donated hardwood veneer. The resulting Bodhi Tree is comprised of laser-cut veneer components created specifically for curving, twisting, and layering in order to negotiate structural capacity with aesthetic sensibilities of lightness, [...]