3-D Fabrication and Crowdsourcing Lecture 2/23

[Sharon Irish]

Dinesh Perera + Katie Handy
Designers, Format

Articulating Process for a Multi-Disciplinary Generation
5:30p Weds February 23rd Plym Auditorium, Temple Buell Hall, 611 Taft Dr, Champaign
Free and open to the public


Format is an Architecture and Materials Research Studio utilizing
spatial design and product-making to explore emergent concepts across
culturally-isolated disciplines. Format's work occurs in diverse teams
whose multi-faceted interests produce results greater than a simple sum of
its individual members' labor, and represents a new model for design intelligence.

Current projects include development of a fabrication process utilizing
traditional hot glass techniques with an online 3-d modeling user-interface
for crowd sourcing tumbler designs, research of quorum-sensing for its
potential architectural applications and collaboration with experts in the
field of driverless vehicles for increasing personal mobility while reducing
dependence on the single-user automobile.

[iceflow]

Any idea how many of these can be produced using a 5lbs spool of ABS? I’m trying to use this montitization thing to entice my wife into letting me get a makerbot (ignoring initial investment of course).