
Kevin Klinger speaks at the “Simposium de Arquitectura Progressiva 2011: Procesos Digitales+Fabricacion” event in Mexico City.
The Institute for Digital Fabrication is pleased to help promote the “Research in Materials and Manufacturability for Extreme Affordability Workshop” hosted at Ball State University on 18-19 March 2011. Read the full post for more information and link to event website.
Graduate Certificate in Digital Design + Fabrication ::
The Graduate Certificate invites students and design professionals from a variety of backgrounds who wish to enhance their skill sets with the latest digital design and fabrication tools at Ball State University. This 12 credit hour program, which specifically caters to nontraditional schedules, focuses on applying computational [...]
MorphoLuminescence, a responsive, kinetic lighting prototype, exhibited at the ACADIA 2010 Conference at the Cooper Union Great Hall. Photos and diagrams of the project were displayed as part of a peer-reviewed projects exhibition at Pratt Institute’s Siegel Gallery. MorphoLuminescence was a collaborative design and prototyping project from four Ball State M.Arch students–Elizabeth Boone, Eric Brockmeyer, [...]
We want to collaborate with YOU. The changing market, distributed networks, and the rapid rates of change in technological innovation necessitate new skills to manage digital information as well as connecting globally while making locally. The Institute for Digital Fabrication is uniquely positioned to partner with industry in value-generating collaborations–read more…

Kevin Klinger received the Best Paper Award at the SIGraDi 2010 Conference in Bogota, Columbia.
Kevin Klinger delivered a presentation entitled, “Manufacturing, Materials and Making: Cases for the Midwest,” at annual AIA Minnesota 2010 Convention in Minneapolis.
Ball State University “speedwaystudio” designs addition scheme for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.

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i.M.A.D.E exhibits work at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy.

i.M.A.D.E was invited to conduct a series of workshops at the University of Calgary’s Environmental Design Faculty.
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: [...]
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.

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.
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.

Mahesh Senagala and Joshua Vermillion present their paper entitled “An Inconvenient Studio” at the 2009 ACADIA Conference in Chicago.
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.
The latest hardwood veneer Luminaire prototypes were exhibited at the Tech Point 2009 Innovation Summit.

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 [...]

Institute for Digital Fabrication sponsored studio courses place a strong emphasis on forging partnerships with regional material manufacturers to promote and explore the potentials of designing and producing with advanced technologies. Many visits were made to different industries, including custom glass, brass casting, metal fabricators, Indiana limestone, and recycled rubber. Frequently, these visits lead to [...]

Kevin Klinger gives a presentation of i.M.A.D.E work and later participates in a round table discussion at the Spot on Schools exhibition in Florence, Italy.

Gregg Pasquarelli from SHoP delivers a lecture at Ball State University.

Michael Gibson, Kevin Klinger, and Joshua Vermillion presented a paper about the Construction Information seminar entitled, “Constructing Information: Towards a Feedback Ecology in Digital Design and Fabrication”, at the 2008 ACADIA Conference.
Gibson, Michael; Kevin Klinger; Joshua Vermillion (2008). “Constructing Information: Towards a Feedback Ecology in Digital Design and Fabrication”, ACADIA International Conference 2008 Silicon + Skin: [...]

Joshua Vermillion presented a paper (with co-author Glenn Sweitzer) at the Architectural Research Centers Consortium 2009 Annual Conference. The paper was entitled “Distance Daylighting and Digital Fabrication”
Sweitzer, Glenn; Joshua Vermillion (2009). “Distance Daylighting and Digital Fabrication”, ARCC 2009 Conference: Leadership in Architectural Research, Between Academia and the Profession, San Antonio, Texas, 15-18 April 2009.

Kevin Klinger delivers a lecture at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) entitled “Manufacturing Material Effects”.