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Skylar will present work from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab that spans from materials development to new fabrication approaches & self-organizing construction systems.
The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Julian Palacio.
Skylar Tibbits is a designer & computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly & programmable materials within the built environment. Tibbits is the founder & co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, & Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture. He is also the director of the undergraduate Design programs in the Department of Architecture.
Tibbits has a professional degree in architecture & a minor in experimental computation from Philadelphia University, & a masters in design computation & masters computer science from MIT. He has worked at a number of design offices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture & Point b Design.
He has designed & built large-scale installations & exhibited in galleries around the world, including the MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum & various others. He is the author of - Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution (Princeton University Press 2021), Self-Assembly Lab: Experiments in Programming Matter (Routledge, 2016), Active Matter (MIT Press, 2017), co-editor of Being Material (MIT Press 2019) & the Editor-In-Chief of the journal 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing.
This event is free & open to the public. Registration is required.
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