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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 some of the work on display at the Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy (July 2009):

“In the ‘Spot on Schools’ forum, while many participating universities concentrated on the use of programmes to create abstract forms, the most interesting insight came from Ball State University’s Kevin Klinger. He highlighted a project in which students work hands-on in the workshops of local Indiana limestone and hardwood manufacturers. They aim to develop new processes to carve and shape the materials through digital programming. Klinger’s view is that ‘digital fabrication should bring us back to handcraft, not take us away’.”


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i.M.A.D.E acts as a catalyst of digital design and fabrication techniques for both industry and education related to architecture and allied arts. Through immersive projects deploying interdisciplinary, applied design and fabrication research, the institute is a conduit between students, design professionals, and the manufacturing sector.
As an institute within Ball State University, i.M.A.D.E supports curricular components offering expertise with state-of -the-art software and devices using simulation, analysis, fabrication, and a rigorous examination of the craft inherent in digital design and production. With strategic industry partners, students test knowledge through team-based projects dealing with the translation of bits into atoms, shifting scales between models, prototypes, 1:1 construction, and the development of solutions to real problems by managing a complex set of design constraints.