Exciting News! 📜 After a long wait, our patent on Kiriform has finally been issued! Thank you all for the support and encouragement throughout this journey. This is a big step towards design innovation, design science and making a positive translation!Â
Info about Kiriform here
MaP+S would like to invite you to join us for an exciting research livestream hosted by Digital Futures !
Whether you are an expert in the field or simply interested in learning more about our research, we would love to have you join us for this engaging and informative event.
The livestream will take place here on 29th April, 10 am EDT.
We hope to see you there! Don’t forget to mark your calendars and spread the word to anyone who may be interested.
Recording to his can be found here : Link
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.
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.
