IoA Institute of Architecture 4D Printing In a collaboration between Stratasys’ Education, R&D departments and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, a new process is being developed, coined 4D Printing, which demonstrates a radical shift in rapid-prototyping. 4D Printing entails multi-material prints provided by the Connex Technology with the added capability of embedded transformation from one shape to another, directly off the print-bed. This revolutionary technique offers a streamlined path from idea to reality with full functionality built directly into the materials. Imagine robotics-like behavior without the reliance on complex electro-mechanical devices! In order to take advantage of this new technology from idea conception to reality we have collaborated with Autodesk Research on their developments for a new software, called Cyborg, a design platform spanning applications from the nano-scale to the human-scale. A Collaboration between: Skylar Tibbits | The Self-Assembly Lab, MIT Education & Research & Development | Stratasys Inc.
Kunstuniversität Linz: Master programme Welcome at the Interface Culture Programme Website. Acting as creative artists and researchers, students learn how to advance the state of the art of current interface technologies and applications. Through interdisciplinary research and team work, they also develop new aspects of interface design including its cultural and social applications. The Interface Culture program at the Linz University of Arts Department of Media was founded in 2004 by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau. The term "interface" is omnipresent nowadays. However, an interface also describes the hook-up between human and machine, whereby the human qua user undertakes interaction as a means of operating and influencing the software and hardware components of a digital system. Artists in the field of interactive art have been conducting research on human-machine interaction for a number of years now. The Interface Cultures program is based upon this know-how.
Self Assembly Skylar Tibbits and Arthur Olson, in collaboration with Autodesk Research, exhibited the BioMolecular Self-Assembly project at TED Global 2012, Edinburgh, Scotland. Full Project Site: Could buildings one day build themselves? It sounds unbelievable, but it’s the very real world of Skylar Tibbits of MIT and Arthur Olson of the Scripps Research Institute, who study how the basic ingredients for molecular assembly could translate to self-assembly technologies at all scales, even large buildings. Participants at TEDGlobal each received a unique glass flask containing anywhere from 4 to 12 red, black or white parts. Programmable self-assembly has been studied extensively at the molecular level for some time now. Skylar Tibbits, TED Senior Fellow, Lecturer MIT Architecture Department, Founder/Principal of SJET LLC Arthur Olson, The Molecular Graphics Lab, The Scripps Research Institute, Co-Founder of ScienceWithinReach Inc. Matt Tierney, Autodesk Inc.
Applying to the GSD Thank you for your interest in applying to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Your application is the window through which we see your accomplishments, hear your ideas, and evaluate your potential. Applicants are admitted for Fall term only; there is no mid-year admission. Introduce yourself to receive news and updates! Apply now for Fall 2014! Deadlines APPLYING for concurrent degrees within the gsd Students may concurrently pursue two degrees offered by the GSD. applying for degree programs With other harvard schools applying through the harvard seniors program Qualified undergraduates at Harvard are eligible for early admission into the program and may take all or a portion of the first year of graduate study during their senior year. PhD students must apply through the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Office of AdmissionsHarvard Graduate School of Design48 Quincy Street, Suite 422Cambridge, MA 02138
Shape-shifting robots By combining origami and electrical engineering, researchers at MIT and Harvard are working to develop the ultimate reconfigurable robot — one that can turn into absolutely anything. The researchers have developed algorithms that, given a three-dimensional shape, can determine how to reproduce it by folding a sheet of semi-rigid material with a distinctive pattern of flexible creases. To test out their theories, they built a prototype that can automatically assume the shape of either an origami boat or a paper airplane when it receives different electrical signals. As director of the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Professor Daniela Rus researches systems of robots that can work together to tackle complicated tasks. The U.S. A new wrinkle So Rus has been investigating alternative approaches, which don’t require separate modules to locate and connect to each other before beginning to assemble more complex shapes.
TU Delft: Admission requirements for Master’s degree programmes Admission to one of the Master’s degree programmes of TU Delft can be granted if you hold one of the following certificates: Admission to the Master’s degree programme can be granted on the basis of a pass grade for a Bachelor’s examination. For each Bachelor's degree programme there is at least one corresponding Master's degree programme to which you are granted direct admission on the basis of your Bachelor's degree. Detailed information about the transfer possibilities from Bachelor’s to Master’s degree programmes can be found in the ‘transfer matrix’. Registration for a Master degree programme without a Bachelor degreeStudents who have not yet taken the Bachelor’s examination cannot be admitted to the courses of the (following) Master’s degree programme.For more information see Bachelor-before-Master rule.
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, “That can’t be done.” Two years later, Rus showed her colleague Hod Lipson, a robotics researcher at Cornell University, a video of prototype robots, based on Romanishin’s design, in action. “That can’t be done,” Lipson said. In November, Romanishin — now a research scientist in MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) — Rus, and postdoc Kyle Gilpin will establish once and for all that it can be done, when they present a paper describing their new robots at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Inside each M-Block is a flywheel that can reach speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute; when the flywheel is braked, it imparts its angular momentum to the cube. Embodied abstraction Video: Melanie Gonick, MIT News
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