Digital fabrication is a process that merges design and manufacture through the use of digital tools (software) and computer-controlled manufacturing processes. Such processes position "digital natives" in the forefront of craft and form generation. Today, engineers, designers and artists are leading the development of new sculpting, construction and manufacturing strategies. Methods such as CNC milling, laser cutting, robotic fabrication among others, allow us to materialise radical new forms inspired by biological processes, mathematics and computational geometry.
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Topic 2019: Future Food
This years topic is Future Food. How does the digital fit with a supremely analogue experience of experiencing flavours and aromas? Emerging technologies will change how we work in the kitchen, how we experience eating, how we gain nutrients and how our food consumption impacts the environment. Current food production methods are polarised with highly mechanised industrial fabrication on one side and intimate, small scale artisanal practices on the other. Digital Fabrication has allowed industrial processes to become bespoke and more accessible, could this also be the case for food? Will we be working together with robots in the kitchen, will we design our own food on the genetic level? How might digital fabricated food give us new sensory experiences, or play with or perceptions to give us fulfilling experiences while making us healthier or less consuming of natural resources?
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- Workbook documentation of exercises and minor projects from weeks week 1
- Presentation of Minor ProjectExercises
Group Work (70%)
- Exhibition of process and outcomes
- Final Presentation
- Standard IAD Documentation
- Video (Making of, Final Prototype)
- Image selection
- Short Documentation (PDF)
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| Week 1 Digitial Fabrication | Mo., 6.1. | Tu. 7.1. | We 8.1. | Th. 9.1. | Fr. 10.1. |
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Morning | 10.00 Intro Kick-off Digital Fabrication | 9.00 Minor exercise Exercise 1 | Processing and 3D Geometry Grasshopper. | Minor Project Minor Exercise 2 | Minor Project Minor Exercise 2 |
| Afternoon | 13:00 Rhino Introduction Minor Exercise 1 Start: "Make small things big. " | 15:00 Minor exercise presentation1presentation. 16.00 3D Printing intro with Cetus 3D | Minor Exercise 2: 15:30 (Nieves filming and wrap up) | Minor Project Minor Exercise 2 | 15.00 Minor Project Minor Exercise 2 presentation |
Week 2 Future of Food | Mo. 13.1. | Tu. 14.1. | We. 15.1. | Th. 16.1. | Fr. 17.1. |
| Morning | Clemens Introduction | 9:00 Input of food fabrication part I | Work on Main Project | Work on Main Project | 11.00 Final Presentation |
| Afternoon | Perspectives on Food fabrication | 13:00 Input of food fabrication part II Work on Main Project 13.00 Mentoring | Work on Main Project | Work on Main Project
| Cleaning Up/ Documenting |
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Prepare Raw Material:
- Chocolate for melting ✔
- Silicone ✔
- Molecular Gastronomy Materials ✔
Prepare inputs relating to foods:
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