A graduate student workshop on design computation. 

 

Focus is on understanding how material manipulation in design can relate and translate to shape computing. We will be cutting slivers into sheet materials to attribute them variable bending capacity. We will also be knitting on a hacked machine to play with surface flexibility. The design tasks will be simple. The challenge will be in deciphering the causal link between our interventions on the material and our shape making so that both can be integrally represented for computing. We will be relying on visual rules and weight definitions according to the shape grammars theory of shapes. ​

 

Workshop instructors: 

Benay Gürsoy, Iestyn Jowers, Mine Özkar, George Stiny. 

 

Contact ozkar@itu.edu.tr for more information.