The new project is a collaboration with Sal Craig from the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. Moderated by Mariana Ibañez. © 2020 MaP+S @ Harvard Graduate School of Design. “Expanding Designs” presents speculative designs and research by Harvard’s Material Processes and Systems (MaP+S) group that involve robotic technology, design experiments and studies geared towards industry integration.”. Portable buildings, retractable coverings, kinetic facades, and spaces that morph: these transformable structures are part of the lexicon of architectural possibilities. There are 16 entries, built and ready to be evaluated, in Dezhou, Shandong Province. The show is open until 10 Feb 2018. Holly Samuelson – Assistant Professor of Architecture, GSDHolly teaches architectural technology courses, specializing in the energy and environmental performance of buildings. The piece is an expanding bench to a shelving system. Prototyping and final design efforts are on their way. While ceramic-specific aspects of material design and manipulation will be taught emphasis is on understanding ceramics as a microcosm of material research that offers insights which transfer to work with almost any material used in architecture. Chuck Hoberman seamlessly fuses the disciplines of art, architecture and engineering. Examples of his commissioned work include the transforming video screen for the U2 360° world tour (2009-2011), the Hoberman Arch in Salt Lake City, installed at Medals Plaza for the Winter Olympic Games (2002), a retractable dome for the World’s Fair in Hanover, Germany (2000), and ‘Emergent Surface’ (2008) shown at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The project completes a multi-year project that started with an installation at the 2014 Cevisama in Valencia. Additional instructors and guest critics are routinely incorporated into MDE courses to provide area expertise and experience from professional practice. Chuck Hoberman (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere. He has over 20 years of experience as an officer in the United States Army, with extensive experience in combat operations, training, and the adaptation of novel technologies to and from the battlefield. He is founder of the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, which focuses on mechanics, materials, manufacturing, and design for novel small-scale, biologically-inspired, and soft-bodied robots. Hoberman has over twenty patents for his transformable inventions, and has won numerous awards for his designs. We look forward to collaborating with him at MaP+S! She holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management. Ceramics is the first ever material created by mankind – it is omnipresent in the craft-studio as well as in industrial manufacturing settings. Weitz and his group also have extensive interactions with industry, with some of their work motivated by the science that directly addresses technologically important problems. Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting. Her research interests include construction applications for additive manufacturing technologies, specifically 3D printing. MaP+S Martin Bechthold is participating in the 2017 RIBA Symposium in Liverpool, UK, organized by Rosa Urbana Gutierrez. He is the director of REAL, the Responsive Environment and Artifacts Lab at Harvard, and most recently co-founded the ALIVE group at Harvard, an interdisciplinary team of scientists and designers from the GSD and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Team | Kevin Chong , Eliza Pertigkiozoglou, Carla Saad, Anne Stack. His innovative and pioneering research results were highly recognized through the prestigious National Science Foundation Young Investigator and Army Young Investigator awards and as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is also affiliate faculty at the Wyss Center for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The phrase "intelligent interactive systems" describes many of Gajos's interests: understanding how intelligent technologies can enable novel ways of interacting with computation, and in the new challenges that human abilities, limitations, and preferences create for machine learning algorithms embedded in interactive systems. Faculty from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) lead and provide core instruction in the MDE program. https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/event/exhibition-material-systems-digital-design-and-fabrication-harvard-graduate-school-design. From medicine to space travel, Chuck Hoberman's shape-shifting is expanding scientific research. Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture, GSD. He has served on the Steering Committee of the Worcester County Food Hub Initiative, and is currently working on a rotational grazing project in Central Massachusetts. Executive Director for Education and Research, SEASExecutive Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Peru. 37 students will present their design research projects. All Rights Reserved. The Cloud is a retractable canopy that can be easily deployed by a pair of “buttmates” and provides visual privacy as well as an ambiance and shelter from glare, producing soft diffuse light. Her work has been widely published, exhibited, and won multiple design awards. SCI 6476 at Harvard University (Harvard) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shmuel Rubinstein – Associate Professor of Applied Physics, SEASShmuel is the Principal Investigator of the SMRLab: Physics of Complex Systems research group, which focuses on understanding the non-linear dynamics of mostly soft and liquid systems. Creative applications of material related technologies have produced new forms of expression in architecture, triggered a debate on digital ornament, and continue to advance the performative aspects of buildings. SmartGeometry 2018 – Workshop // Mind Ex Machina, https://www.smartgeometry.org/mind-ex-machina, Exhibition: Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication | SCI-6317, Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication, SCI 6317: Material Systems: Digital Design and Fabrication, Material Systems Class Review @ Harvard GSD, Moulding Futures Symposium @ RIBA Liverpool, Materials Science and Architecture – Review Paper published, Exhibition: Material Practice as Research_Digital Design and Fabrication, Material Practice as Research: Digital Design and Fabrication, Barcelona Design Museum: Upcoming Public Lecture. Chuck Hoberman (born 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US) is an artist, engineer, architect, and inventor of folding toys and structures, most notably the Hoberman sphere. Pietrusko is also a co-founder of the metaLAB(at)Harvard, where he develops data-rich tools and environments for the communication of scholarly work. Julia’s efforts at the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia have focused on designing an undergraduate curriculum that integrates science and technology with the humanities and business-management tools. The article – co-authored by Martin Bechthold and Joanna Aizenberg – highlights ongoing research at Harvard that integrates science and design. A link to the livestream will be posted shortly. We hope to see many of you at ACADIA 2017 – in our neighborhood at MIT. Bertoldi and former graduate student Johannes Overvelde, who is the first author of the paper, collaborated with Chuck Hoberman, of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and associate faculty at the Wyss and James Weaver, a senior … 4:00 Histories , a panel discussion examining contemporary material innovations within the context of historic investigations. Chuck Hoberman, lecturer in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, is part of a team of cross-Harvard researchers who have developed a foldable material that can change size, volume, and shape while being versatile, tunable, and self-actuated. Prior to joining the full-time faculty at the GSD, she taught in the second term core studio of the MLA Program at the GSD and at Northeastern University's School of Architecture. Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, SEAS, and HBS University Fellow. It was taught to a group of about 25 students per year, and was open to all students at the undergraduate … Kevin Kit Parker – Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics, SEASKit is a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and Technology at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and has an extensive technical background in biological systems, medical devices, and bio-inspired design. Her research within the Harvard astronomy department (2005-2014) primarily focused on plasma in extreme conditions, using a combination of X-ray satellite spectroscopic data and an extensive experimental program at synchrotron facilities in the US and Asia. His current research interests include semiconductors and nanophotonics, and he is interested in a holistic engineering education that integrates multi-disciplinary learning, practical reasoning, and integrative thinking. A former lawyer at WilmerHale, Luba currently advises the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and the Wyss Center For Bio And Neuroengineering. In addition to toys such as the Hoberman sphere, Hoberman created the BrainTwist, a hard plastic tetrahedron that folds, stellates, and becomes self-dual while having a component that rotates similarly to a Rubik’s Cube. Yet despite this persistent interest, examples of dynamic buildings are few, and architectural design remains focused on static objects. Cino Zucchi. Bertoldi and former graduate student Johannes Overvelde, who is the first author of the paper, collaborated with Chuck Hoberman, of the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and associate faculty at the Wyss and James Weaver, a senior … Woodward Yang has extensive technical background in microelectronic systems and semiconductor manufacturing, and wider intellectual interests, including technology transfer, intellectual property, entrepreneurship, innovation, and engineering design. He founded the multidisciplinary firm Hoberman Associates, is a member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and is one of the inaugural faculty members of the Harvard Graduate School of Design’s new Masters in Design Engineering (MDE) program. The exhibition features ceramics in experimental architectural applications made by students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design during the Fall 2016 course, Material Practice as Research: Digital Design and Fabrication, taught my Leire Asensio Villoria with Kathy King as ceramic consultant. Her interest lies in architectural geometry and the implementation of digital technology in architecture and education. David Weitz - Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, SEASWeitz and his group study the physics of soft condensed matter, materials easily deformed by external stresses, electric, magnetic or gravitational fields, and even thermal fluctuations. Speakers include Chuck Hoberman, Hanif Kara, Dennis Shelden, and Marc Simmons. Harvard GSD. Chuck Hoberman – Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Design Engineering, GSD Chuck has an extensive background in design and the manufacturing of transformable structures with demonstrated use as consumer products, deployable shelters, stage sets, and architectural facades. Her research on urban form, spatial analysis, and process design explores the deep cultural, typological, and process-based implications of scalable urban systems in the real world. MaP+S researchers to teach a workshop at SmartGeometry 2018. His most recent books offer a comprehensive overview of the changes brought by the computer and digital culture to the theory and practice of architecture, as well as to the planning and experience of the city. Pia Sörensen – Senior Preceptor in Chemical Engineering and Applied Materials, SEAS Pia co-teaches and manages the General Education course "Science and Cooking: From Haute Cuisine to Soft Matter Science." Allen Sayegh – Associate Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology, GSDAllen is an architect, designer, educator, and the principal of INVIVIA, an award-winning, global design firm. Joanna Aizenberg – Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Material Science, SEAS Joanna pursues a broad range of research interests that include biomineralization, biomimetics, self-assembly, crystal engineering, surface chemistry, nanofabrication, biomaterials, biomechanics, and biooptics. Visiting Lecturer in Engineering Sciences, SEAS. Melbourne School of Design. Luba is an investor and company builder in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and digital health space. In pursuing this objective, she develops computational design methods and artefacts employing computer simulation such as Finite Element Analysis and various digital fabrication technologies. Hoberman has over twenty patents for his transformable inventions, and has won numerous awards for his designs.He is the Pierce Anderson Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is an Associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. At Polaroid, he led teams that created over 20 products per year, and after leaving Polaroid, he initiated three start-ups related to imaging electronics. Craig Ellwood. Her research on urban form, spatial analysis, and process design explores the deep cultural, typological, and process-based implications of scalable urban systems in the real world. Harvard Graduate School of Design Instructor: Chuck Hoberman. Her research interests range from science and engineering education — with an emphasis on online education and creative ways of teaching science and engineering in a liberal arts setting — to chemical biology, stemming from her doctoral work on small molecule natural products and their effects on cell division and other cellular processes. Cutting across scales, students engage subjects from the level of a single artifact or building to landscapes and Joost Vlassak – Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Materials Engineering, SEASJoost has an intellectual interest in the mechanical and thermal behavior of a broad range of engineering materials, with a focus on experimental techniques. This project developed in Informal Robotics Course in Harvard GSD and collaborated with Wyss Institute’s Bio-inspired Robotics Platform. Rahul Mehrotra . Her research initiatives include a project funded by the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations (VREF), which focused on the role of political leadership in transforming urban transport, and a project funded by Mexico’s national workers’ housing agency (INFONAVIT). Let’s Architecture. (CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts) — The Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) announces the appointment of Chuck Hoberman as the Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Design Engineering, effective July 1, 2016. The Master in Design Engineering is a collaborative degree program between the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Pleasing to the touch and easily manipulated by hand, it can just as easily be subject to digital technologies and robotic approaches. More soon in a separate posting! He is the Pierce Anderson Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and is an Associate faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. ... and material invention. Jill Desimini – Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, GSDJill is trained in landscape architecture and architecture, and has practiced professionally in both fields. Jock is an instructor focused on food systems and health. Nowhere do the disciplines of art, architecture, and engineering fuse as seamlessly as in the work of inventor Chuck Hoberman, internationally known for his “transformable structures.” Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting. MIT Architecture. David Adjaye. Het Nieuwe Instituut. He co-led the Smart Cities and Wellness project sponsored by the Humana Corporation and the Responsive Environments and Artifacts Lab at the GSD. Our local partners are the Ceramics Research Institute ITC in Castellon and the installer Jordi Font de Mora. She was an Undergraduate Research Assistant with the ISU CCL and she holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Iowa State University. She has held leadership roles at Roche and Pfizer and serves on the boards of MassBio and numerous biotechnology and tech companies. chuck hoberman Pierce Anderson Lecturer in Design Engineering, Harvard GSD Chuck Hoberman, internationally known for his transformable structures, seamlessly fuses the disciplines of art, architecture and engineering, Through his products, patents, and structures, Hoberman demonstrates how objects can be foldable, retractable, or shape-shifting. Assistant Professor in Practice of Architecture, GSD. 48 Quincy StreetOffice 304Cambridge, MA 02138. Craig Hodgetts. Work by the Adaptive Living Environments (ALivE) group is featured in the March supplements of DOMUS. Martin's research, related publications, and teaching focus on innovative material systems, structural design, and robotic fabrication, with recent projects developing structural applications of architectural ceramics and advancing multi-material 3D printing technology. Claire Weisz. Yet we are only at the beginning of a new age of digital materiality…. Executive Dean for Education and Research, SEAS. David Chipperfield. 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. The workshop is called Mind Ex Machina, and will explore the creative opportunities at the intersection of robotics and machine intelligence. While this is ideal for engineering tasks, it may become constraining in design contexts where flexibility, adaptability and a certain degree of indeterminacy are desired, in order to favour the exploratory nature of creative inquiry. Speakers include Anna Dyson, Chuck Hoberman, Hanif Kara, Dennis Shelden, and Marc Simmons. The paper can be viewed free online – just follow the link. Chuck Hoberman is an artist, designer, and engineer. This course is intended for students interested in how to create products, buildings, and environments that utilize physical transformation to realize enhanced performance and engagement. Informal robotics is a class co-developed and taught by Dan Aukes, Chuck Hoberman, and Jonathan Grinham in Harvard’s Graduate School of Design(GSD). In 2010, he founded the GSD’s Design Robotics Group, which he recently merged it into the Material Processes and Systems (MaP+S) Group, a collaboration of faculty, research associates, and students that pursues sponsored and other research projects. Robert Pietrusko – AssociateProfessor of Landscape Architecture, GSD Robert's teaching and research focus on geospatial representation, simulation, narrative + critical cartography, and spatial taxonomies. Instructors | Chuck Hoberman, Jonathan Grinham Hoberman has over twenty patents for his transformable inventions, and has won numerous awards for his designs. Prior to Harvard, Fawwaz was the Corporate Vice President responsible for research and product design at Polaroid Corporation, and also served as a Senior Research and Engineering Fellow. The Harvard Graduate School of Design prides itself on the wide scope of its global aspirations, collaborations, and projects. Chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Design, Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design Degree Program and Co-Director of the Master of Landscape Architecture in Urban Design Degree Program & John T. Dunlop Professor in Housing and Urbanization Exhibition dates: January 17 – February 10, 2017, Venue : Ceramics Program Studio at 224 Western Avenue in Allston, Gallery 224. Luba has led Strategic Business Development and Corporate Ventures at Google Life Sciences, an Alphabet company at the intersection of technology and healthcare. Julia has served on numerous advisory and working group committees to inform science and instrument needs, and over the past years, has focused most of her efforts on education and advance learning. GSD • Spring 2013 • Independent Study • Instructor: Chuck Hoberman • Collaborators: Mike Burton & Beth Roloff Expanding Dome for Burning Man Festival The goal of the project was to create a kinetic structure that could act as a collapsible, temporary installation or kiosk. She also has great interest in the art-science connection. Participants will be encouraged to explore this possibility through the conception and implementation of machine intelligence-aided interfaces for human-robot collaborative tasks. Bechthold, founder of MaP+S, was recently honored with a named chair, the Kumagain Professor of Architectural Technology. His numerous publications include Design Engineering, 2008, Actar. It is composed of custom milled wooden scissor joints, steel connection hardware, and wheels. Today’s innovations in material technology, digital production methods and assembly approaches allow for applications that combine the materials’ emotional appeal with new functionalities. Kumagai Professor of Architectural Technology, GSD. Visitors can transform four large metal sculptures in Chuck Hoberman’s 10°, a new exhibit at Le Laboratoire in Cambridge. She was formerly Senior Associate at Stoss Landscape Urbanism, where she managed the firm's efforts on the Lower Don Lands in Toronto, the Bass River Park on Cape Cod, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.Krzysztof Z Gajos – Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, SEAS In July of 2009, Krzysztof joined the Harvard faculty as an assistant professor in Computer Science. Wider intellectual interests include the process of invention, design automation methods, transformable systems in nature, and creative synergies between the arts and sciences. Material systems are positioned as central to a research-based design enquiry that capitalizes on opportunities that emerge when craft-based knowledge is synthesized with CNC-machines, robotic technologies, additive manufacturing and material science. Material Processes and Systems (MaP+S) Group. Diane Davis – Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism,  GSDTrained as a sociologist, Diane's research interests include the relations between urbanization and national development, comparative urban governance, socio-spatial practice in conflict cities, and new territorial manifestations of sovereignty. By Stephen Ornes November 15, 2020 12:00 AM A sneak peek at Hoberman’s latest prototype: a sphere that transforms shape, size and color by turning itself inside out. MaP+S is welcoming Milena Stavric as our visiting scholar for the remainder of the 2017 academic year. The next lecture will take place in Nottingham Trent University (UK, June 2016), and at the Museum of Design in Barcelona (Spain, October 2016). Her research focuses on energy conservation, computerized simulation, occupant behavior, and the future of building practice as it relates to these topics. The exhibition will be open Jan. 30th through Feb. 16th 2018 at the Harvard Ceramics Studio and the opening reception will take place on Tuesday, Jan. 30th at 5 pm. Elizabeth is founding principal at Supernormal, an architecture, urban design, and research practice focused on the design of form and processes that balance contextual relevance with the contemporary imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places. Prof. Bechthold delivered lectures on MaP+S research at the New Jersey Institute of Architecture, at the 2016 COVERINGS in Chicago, as well as at the Bergamo (Italy) based Italcementi. 3:45 Break 4:15 Ecologies, which links projects that incorporate new materials, systems and strategies, including smart glass, kinetic envelopes, and innovative building systems. Nice to not have to travel halfway around the world for a change… On Thursday afternoon we are presenting our work on auxetic systems! The course positions material systems as combinations of design technologies with material processing and manipulation environments. Architects have long imagined a built environment that is fundamentally dynamic. It is hot and humid there – challenging conditions for the participants! Prior to joining Harvard, Samuelson practiced full-time as an architect (2000-2007) and sustainable design consultant (2007-2008). The end of semester review of SCI 6317 Material Systems will take place on 14 December at the GSD. Prof. Bechthold is heading to China to serve as jury member for the Solar Decathlon China. 300. Monocle on Design. Hoberman also joins Harvard’s Wyss … As a separate concentration area within the Master in Design Studies program, the Technology track allows post-professional students to pursue a broad spectrum of inquiries, including design computation, digital fabrication, robotics, and the exploration of responsive environments. Harvard Graduate School of Design | Fall 2017 . In addition, some research in the group has led to promising new technologies, and several start-up companies have emerged from the research. Our long term collaboration with material scientists from the Wyss Institute has recently led to another paper – this time a review of the reciprocal relationship between materials science and architecture and architectural engineering. Awards + Exhibition Featured in designboom Published in GSD Platform 7 Awarded MIT Art Council Grant Won competition for Harvard Yard Art Festival Professor of Design at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.