Learning to Make :: Making to Learn
Curators: Dina El-Zanfaly, Terry Knight
Architecture, the arts, and the crafts are processes of creating and making objects, spaces, and experiences. Making involves improvisation, experimentation, risk, and unpredictability; it is a conversation between the maker, her senses, her materials, and the environment. So how then do we learn to make, and what do we learn from making? What are the potential roles of computational tools, theories, and practices in understanding, describing, and enriching making activities? In this lecture series, we explore improvisation, experimentation, and computing in both learning to make and making to learn.
November 7, 2014
12:00 – 1:30 pm
Material Computation
Achim Menges
Director, Institute for Computational Design, Stuttgart University, Germany
November 7, 2014
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Digital Materiality and the Intelligence of the Technodigital Object
Betti Marenko
Contextual Studies Leader, University of the Arts, London
November 14, 2014
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Crafting the Computational Maker: The Conservation of Embodied Phenomenological Experience
Matt Ratto
Director, Critical Making Lab, University of Toronto, Canada
November 21, 2014
5:00 – 6:30 pm
Making it in New York City
Glenn Adamson
Director, Museum of Art and Design, NYC
Further information on the Fall 2014 Computation Group lectures can be found here