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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Olga Mesa was invited to teach a workshop on virtual reality modeling at LSU. The workshop was titled: “Interdimensional Narratives”.
We welcome you to join us for the 2020 DDes Conference held on February 26th at the GSD, Stubbins (Room 112) from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.We will be presenting this year’s ceramic installation, our tallest ever, at the Cevisama trade fair in Valencia from 3 – 7 February! Hope to see you there! We thank the Cevisama Trade Fair Organization and ASCER Tile of Spain for their support.
Mark your calendar for our first Design – Science Conference at Harvard, showcasing intriguing and compelling work at the intersection of design and science at Harvard and beyond. Curated by Allen Sayegh, Joanna Aizenberg and Martin Bechthold, the event is held at the Radcliff Institute for Advanced Studies, free and open to the public. more
We hope to see many of you at ACADIA 2019: Ubiquity and Autonomy in Austin, Texas on Oct 24-26. We will be presenting a paper on Robot Ex Machina, a computational framework on concurrent human-robot interaction and one on Janus Printing: Co-extrusion based Multi-material 3D printing of Ceramics! Publications will be linked soon. Link
MaP+S Group would like to welcome Dr. Iryna Kuksa as our visiting scholar for the year. Iryna Kuksa is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University (UK). She received her Doctorate from the School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick. Currently, Iryna is a Visiting Scholar at The Harvard Graduate School of Design, working on an authored book Understanding Personalization: New Aspects of Design, Consumption and Creation (Elsevier, 2020).
More info: Link
Congratulations to Zach Seibold and Jose Luis García del Castillo y López for both joining the faculty this year! Zach will be teaching in the MDE program, as well as offering ‘Digital Media: Manipulations‘ (co-taught with Hyojin Kwon, a research associate with the Laboratory for Design Technologies). Jose Luis is teaching the MDE tech required ‘Introduction to Computational Design‘ as well as ‘Structural Design I‘ with Martin Bechthold.
Check out Saurabh’s winning photos in the Wyss post! And enjoy many of his great images on this website ….
Our cold-SNAP project, an innovative evaporative cooling system developed jointly with Prof. Aizenberg’s Adaptive Materials Platform (involving Jack Alvarenga), the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities (involving Jonathan Grinham and Saurabh Mhatre), and MaP+S, was featured in a story issued by the Wyss institute. Cold-SNAP was recently patented.
We are happy to participate, along with our colleagues Andrew Witt and Allen Sayegh, in the Aerial Futures Conference at Harvard and MIT. Short distance autonomous flight is technically possible but significant questions remain on where and how it can add value to society. We are thrilled to be part of the conversation!
MaP+S has filed an International PCT Patent on a deployable mechanism with applications ranging from medical devices, wheels, furniture, tents to deployable shelters. Related publications are forthcoming.
Mhatre, S. A., Bechthold, M., & Sayegh, A. ‘ DEPLOYABLE KIRIFORM FLEXURES. Patent No. WO2019018546, 2019
For more info: Link