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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.
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 [...]
Constructing Information
The implication of ‘fabrication’ has rapidly expanded for architects, architectural researchers, and students engaging the latest digital tools: fabrication is both material and immaterial, pushing the limits of experimentation while working against the imperatives of real technology and construction imperatives as articulated by other scholars. Computer-aided design and manufacturing, once discreet applications of technology, are [...]
Workshop: Universidad Anahuac, Mexico City
Kevin Klinger and Joshua Vermillion led an invited workshop at the Universidad Anahuac Norte in Mexico City. Along with higher level presentations and discussions about the shifts in practice due to the integration of digital technologies, this short course dealt with Rhino modeling skill-building and digital fabrication (laser cutting).
Catch + Release
i.M.A.D.E collaborated with faculty research fellows Jason Johnson and William Marquez on a design/fabrication/research project entitled “Catch + Release”. The project proposed a series of differentiated panels that function as solar collectors, shading devices and ambient lighting. These panels made up part of an entry pavilion for the University Museum at Southern Illinois University, as [...]
scriptedbypurpose Exhibit
Catch + Release project exhibited at the opening of the “scriptedbypurpose” Exhibit at the Philadelphia FUEL Collection Gallery.
Click here for the event blog.
Abstractions + Constructions
The subject of this foundational, skill-building course – an assignment entitled: “Flat Fabrication” – represented a shift from the immaterial digital realm of three-dimensional modeling software into the world of flat-sheet materials. It involved an investigation of non-planar, complex (“fat”) geometric assemblies and their translation into the “flat” sheet material constructs to be produced using two-dimensional [...]
Shelter Charrette
Working with University of Kentucky students in Lexington and New Orleans, the Institute consulted on a small park project for a rebuilding area in New Orleans. Two students and three faculty helped with a cast concret seating design and also gave a presentation on and helped write some design scripts to generate a solar shading [...]
Digital Toolbox
The Digital Toolbox workshop series was held over the entire fall 2006 semester in 2-week modules. Intended as skill-building opportunities, the workshops covered subjects such as NURBS surface modeling (basic + advanced), animation, rendering, Rhino scripting, CNC tooling, digital fabrication strategies, material effects, parametric modeling, and motion graphics. Central to all of the modules was the [...]