During the fall 2022 Nathan King taught the ‘Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication’, once again with a focus on ceramic-based design research. The course continued our decade-long collaboration with the Harvard Ceramics Studio, with support by ASCER Tile of Spain. The show is located in Gallery 224 at the Harvard Ceramics Studio in Allston, and is open to the public from Monday to Friday between 10 am – 4 pm. More information is here.
We are excited to share our work at ACADIA 2022: Hybrids & Haecceities in Philadelphia, PA, between Oct 27 -29. We will present a project on clay lattice printing, Responsive Spatial Print Trajectory: 3D Printing of Clay Lattices with Self-Corrective Recalibration, and a paper titled Non-Linear Fabrication: Rapid Data Collection and Toolpath Recalibration in 3D Printing of Clay Lattice.
We hope to see you there !!!
Our collaborative work on 3D printing of ceramic foams has been published in the Advanced Material Technologies journal. The study is the result of our collaboration with the Complex Materials Group led by Prof. Dr. André R. Studart at the ETH in Zurich.
Dutto, A., Zanini, M., Jeoffroy, E., Tervoort, E., Mhatre, S. A., Seibold, Z. B., Bechthold, M., Studart, A. R., 3D Printing of Hierarchical Porous Ceramics for Thermal Insulation and Evaporative Cooling. Adv. Mater. Technol. 2022, 2201109.
Link to the paper here.
Our work on a novel evaporative cooling system based on our patented ceramic technology was recently featured in Fast Company. Over the summer we were able to install a prototype in Harvard’s HouseZero, gathering data and experience about the real world challenges of cooling with water in Boston’s humid and hot summers. The results look very promising!
Delighted to announce that our paper titled ‘Post-tensioned Ceramic Structures: Design, Analysis and Prototyping‘ has won the ‘Best Paper Award 2022‘ at the ICSA 2022 5th International Conference on Structures and Architecture , Aalborg, Denmark !!!
The paper can be found here.
Harvard University Graduate School of Design DDes candidate Katarina Richter-Lunn (MDes ’21) has been awarded the 2022 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a merit-based graduate school program for 30 immigrants and children of immigrants. Chosen from a competitive pool of over 1,800 applicants, Richter-Lunn was selected for her potential to make significant contributions through her research and work in the United States. She will join 10 other Harvard affiliated students who are being honored in 2022 by the Soros organization—all of whom receive up to $90,000 to support graduate studies.
More info here.
Great to have our collaborative work with Harvard SEAS on ‘Porous Metamaterials’ highlighted on the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences website !
Check out the full press release here.
Elated to have the Apollo Isolation Hood on display at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum as part of the ‘Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics‘ exhibit.
Project details here.
Happy to have the Apollo Isolation Hood included in the ‘Health Design Thinking: Creating products and services for better health’ book and part of the exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
We are excited to publish our post-tensioned ceramic work in the ‘Architecture, Structures and Construction‘ Journal (2022). You can find the project post here (Link).
Link to the paper below :
Bechthold, M.†, Seibold, Z.† & Mhatre, S. ‘Post-tensioned ceramic structures: design, analysis, and prototyping.’ Archit. Struct. Constr. (2022). https://doi-org/10.1007/s44150-022-00025-0. (Paper)
Saurabh Mhatre, MaP+S, was recently invited to give a talk on Design+ Technology + Materiality as a part of the ‘Making a Difference Speaker Series’ organized by Brilliant Labs . The series features global speakers from diverse backgrounds to spark conversations on technological innovation, humanity-centered design, ethics, creativity, and leadership.
The recording of the talk can be found here: Link
Vessels to Hold Carbon is a collection of three objects by Daniel Tish which have been 3D printed from a new climate-positive material being developed through a collaboration between the MaP+S Group at the Harvard GSD and the Daraio Lab at Caltech. The material is made from photosynthetic microorganisms which absorb many times more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than is required to manufacture the pieces, storing atmospheric carbon for the life of the pieces. The vessels take on the fluid forms of the medium which they have captured, rendering the air that they embody as solid.
The pieces are shown as a part of the Symbiotic Habitat installation of the work of the fellows of the Design Akademie Saaleck. More information about the show here, or take a virtual tour of the exhibition here.
The research to develop this material and the fabrication system has been generously supported by the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities and further development is being supported by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Kiriform (GSD + SEAS) has been featured on the back cover of Advanced Functional Materials Journal (26 Aug 2021).
The article can be found here :
Mhatre, S., Boatti, E., Melancon, D., Zareei, A., Dupont, M., Bechthold, M., Bertoldi, K., Deployable Structures Based on Buckling of Curved Beams Upon a Rotational Input. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2021, 2101144. (Link)
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo y Lopez – as a part of the Harvard GSD Executive Education is launching a new program on Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning.
A non-technical introduction to the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), with particular emphasis on their current applications in the fields of Architecture, Landscape, Urbanism, and Real Estate. Participants will acquire the skills to manage a team in a successful machine learning project, without needing the expertise to understand the details of its technical implementation.
When: April 27, 28,30, 2021
Where: Online
More information / Registrations here.
Olga Mesa was invited to be the keynote speaker along with Nate Fash for the ‘ 2021 Theory and Practice of Design: Virtual design colloquium held at the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Feb,2021).
MaP+S Group’s Chuck Hoberman along with Justin Werfel (Wyss), and Robert Wood (Wyss) to lead development of robotic strategies able to maintain crewed and un-crewed extra-terrestrial habitats in space and on Mars. This multidisciplinary effort, called the Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats institute (RETHi), is led by a team from Purdue University in partnership with Harvard and additional teams from the University of Connecticut and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and will receive as much as $15 million over a five-year period.
Full Post here.
Our research on auxetic metamaterials will be shared at the March Meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver, Colorado. Hope to see you there!
Hold the date for an intriguing day of conversations and presentations. The conference will be held on March 27 at the Radcliff Gym at Harvard – the event is free and open to the public. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Description:
Science and design are often thought to represent opposite mindsets of analysis versus conjecture, of explanatory versus disruptive modes of thinking. Audacious, provocative, and unconventional work emerges when we cross the traditional disciplinary divide between science and design. The March 2020 conference assembles thought leaders from both areas—researchers and practitioners who interrogate the spaces in between through their work. The sessions, which are thematically aligned with the human senses, present a multitude of approaches, methods, and techniques that transcend the disciplinary focus. Conceived as an open forum for exploration and discussion, the conference is co-hosted by faculty from the Graduate School of Design and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. The projects and explorations featured range from fashion to material science, from therapeutic devices to building science, and from cooking to cognitive science.
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