Archive for March, 2010
Bio & Materiality: Solar Power from Stained Glass
A couple of weeks ago a visitor from Konarka came to speak to our Design Frontiers in Biology and Materiality class about their flexible and printable solar panels. The panels are extremely thin, bendable, and semi-transparent. They can be printed in different colors and patterns. I worked with Jill Haeffle and Elizabeth Fuller to develop [...]
Cabinets of Wonder: Treehouse Museum
Treehouse Museum Presentation Slides. During Cabinets of Wonder, a course on design for museums, we were asked us to present a pitch for our “dream museum.” We were to assume we had a massive budget, and that any barriers could be overcome; if it was physically possible, we could propose it. I chose to focus [...]
Thesis: Midterm Presentation
Thesis Midterm Presentation Slides We had a few visitors in class last week, and I really enjoyed hearing their feedback on my thesis. In developing my presentation, I realized that I have several unanswered questions that I’m grappling with, outside of the technical challenges of developing a rewarding way for people to interact with bioluminescent [...]
Bio & Materiality: c-lab
We were asked to provide a short overview of someone working in Bio Art for our classmates in Design Frontiers in Biology and Materiality; I chose c-lab, an art/science studio lab based in London. It’s led by two artists, Howard Boland and Laura Cinti, who aim “to produce cultural holes that allow artistic exploration of [...]
