Material Disruption: Self Healing Behaviours In Robotic 3D Printing
Presented by Mary Spyropoulos
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Brunswick Street Gallery - Top Floor Gallery
322 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy VIC, Australia
DATES
Thu 15 May 10am – 5pm
Fri 16 May 12am – 5pm
Sat 17 May 10am – 5pm
Sun 18 May 10am – 4pm
Tue 20 May 10am – 5pm
Wed 21 May 10am – 5pm
Thu 22 May 10am – 5pm
Fri 23 May 10am – 5pm
Sat 24 May 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May 10am – 4pm
ACCESS
This exhibition explores the transformative potential of self-healing materials in robotic 3D printing, focusing on innovative aesthetics and design applications. Participants can delve into cutting-edge research, discovering how materials can form self-healing behaviours. This initiative inspires and challenges designers to rethink material behaviour, not just as material for fabricating digital models, but for its aesthetic and design sensibilities in architectural expressions. Culminating in a series of larger-scale prototype objects, the exhibition showcases how innovative material behaviour can lead to more adaptive, resilient, and visually compelling architectural forms, aligning with sustainable and forward-thinking design principles.
The exhibition opens on Thursday, 8 May with an opening night from 6-8pm on Friday, May 9.
Participants
Mary Spyropoulos
Mary Spyropoulos is an ARBV registered architect and associate at wood marsh architecture, focusing on infrastructure. Mary is a committee member of AIA EmGAN Victoria. She has experience on a variety of projects across different scales and typologies. Specifically, award winning infrastructure projects bell and preston station, and north east link. She is also a PhD candidate at RMIT University: her research focuses on the convergence of material behaviour, robotic fabrication and computation to generate architecture. Mary is a sessional academic in RMIT University’s School of Architecture and Urban Design.
Dr Joshua Lye
Dr Joshua Lye is a multi-disciplinary practitioner working across architectural technology, academia, and practice. He has expertise in computational design, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and design strategy. He has taught within RMIT University's School of Architecture and Urban Design since 2019 as a Design Studio Leader, Major Project supervisor, and elective and communications tutor. In professional practice he is currently practising at Modus Forma focusing on urban design and infrastructure.
Professor Alisa Andrasek
Architect and design thinker, Alisa Andrasek is working on the convergence of design, computer science and exponential technologies to address architecture in a context of planetary challenges. An award-winning design leader with over two decades of experience in working across disciplines and geographies (NY/London/Melbourne) - bridging between design, technology and ecology - she is bringing complexity science, AI and robotics to the forefront of architecture, cities and construction. Recently, she founded AIARCH developing an AI-driven metaverse platform at the intersection of the physical and digital, targeting integrative solutions for the built environment as an ecology of complex systems and AI-enhanced human design.
Dr Ding Wen ‘Nic’ Bao
Dr Ding Wen ‘Nic’ Bao is a senior lecturer in architecture and architecture technology stream coordinator at the school of architecture and urban design as well as a researcher at the centre for innovative structure and materials, school of engineering at RMIT University. His research explores design methodologies for establishing a complementary relationship among performance architecture, computational design, sustainable design, structural optimization, behavioural algorithms, additive manufacturing, robotic fabrication, and intelligent construction.