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Material Matters II was a two-day intensive design, prototyping, and fabrication workshop to be held in New York City during the weekend of May 12-13, 2011.
As the second installment in the modeFab series and building upon the research developed in Material Matters I, this workshop examined the procedural distinctions between two modes of design production: the first relying primarily on cerebral processing (a conceptual domain isolated from the wildness of matter and energy) and the second motivated by a material’s capacity to act as an agent in the discovery of form.
The workshop operated through a framework of computational and fabrication strategies hinging on the peculiarities of materials and the emergent set of knowledge associated with the work of the hand. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, we iteratively developed digital as well as fabricated prototypes utilizing Grid-Based Modeling techniques via the plug-in Paneling Tools and Machining Strategies with RhinoCAM. The workshop provided participants with instruction in digital fabrication techniques bolstered by direct access to and engagement with our CNC equipment.
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As the second installment in the modeFab series and building upon the research developed in Material Matters I, this workshop examined the procedural distinctions between two modes of design production: the first relying primarily on cerebral processing (a conceptual domain isolated from the wildness of matter and energy) and the second motivated by a material’s capacity to act as an agent in the discovery of form.
The workshop operated through a framework of computational and fabrication strategies hinging on the peculiarities of materials and the emergent set of knowledge associated with the work of the hand. In a fast-paced and hands-on learning environment, we iteratively developed digital as well as fabricated prototypes utilizing Grid-Based Modeling techniques via the plug-in Paneling Tools and Machining Strategies with RhinoCAM. The workshop provided participants with instruction in digital fabrication techniques bolstered by direct access to and engagement with our CNC equipment.
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