Computational Making workshop, Istanbul


 

Figure 08 BW for printing

Inside Out by Begum. Image by Dina El-Zanfaly

Computational Making Workshop in Enormous Smallness Architecture Studio

Fall 2015, Istanbul Technical University (ITU)

InstructorsDina El-Zanfaly and Mine Ozkar.

MIn Fall 2015, Dina El-Zanfaly applied her teaching methodology, I3 (Imitation, Iteration and Improvisation), in a six weeks workshop as a part of an architecture studio in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) led by an alumna from the MIT Computation group, Mine Ozkar, with funding from the Agha Khan travel grant. The studio theme was “Enormous Smallness,” in which second year undergraduate students designed and built scaled prototypes of nooks and crannies for children. The team had recently installed digital fabrication machines in the school, and some students used electronics and Arduinos in their projects for the first time. During the course, students experienced working with different materials, studied structure and form, and learned basic CAD/CAM techniques. The results showed that I3 could be used in any context and theme for novices to learn how to make anything with or without digital fabrication machines.

 

Selected student work:

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