MaP+S
Material Processes and Systems
MaP+S is a Harvard GSD research unit that advances knowledge about materials in the built environment.
Materials
As the starting point of research investigations
The Material Processes and Systems (MaP+S) Group, led by Professor Martin Bechthold, is a research unit that takes materials as a starting point for a broad set of research investigations that involve computation, robotics, and leverages material and perception science. MaP+S advances the aesthetic and functional agenda of materials in the built environment.
Research
MaP+S work is highly interdisciplinary – involving numerous scientific collaborators from material science, chemistry, psychology, and neuroscience. We publish to dual the audiences of technically interested designers as well as scientists. For us doing so is when interdisciplinarity manifests itself.
We work supported by industry partners and associations, foundations and individual philanthropists, involving students, faculty and staff across the Harvard campus and beyond.