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Discovery Grant :: 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 [...]
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 [...]
RMIT Faculty Visit and Consult with i.M.A.D.E
Andrew Maher and Gregory More, research fellows in the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology visited i.M.A.D.E as consultants to help prepare research strategies for the Graham Foundation sponsored SmartScrap project.
SmartScrap is the digital cataloguing of waste products from the building industry -specifically the Indiana limestone industry- and developing computational means to [...]
SmartGeometry Workshop 2007
Kevin Klinger and Joshua Vermillion attend the SmartGeometry Workshop and Conference in Manhattan. The workshop provided a wealth of expertise and resources for beginning the development of the SmartScrap system. Results from the Workshop, including 3D prints of SmartScrap tiles, were displayed at a reception in the Guggenheim Museum.
Graham Foundation Grant
i.M.A.D.E received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for a project entitled, “SmartScrap Digital Design | Fabrication System: Digitally Cataloging Building Industry Waste for Reuse through Parametric Modeling.” This funded project attempts to create value from the “scrap” stone leftover during the production process within the Indiana Limestone [...]