How do we compute design making? An Exercise with Geometric Patterns

24-24.03.2010 | Taşkışla

Instructors: Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar, Res. Assist. Begüm Hamzaoğlu 

The workshop will focus on exploring the generative process of making and its relation to design. Participants will be introduced to the computational making theory and the methods of three-axis CNC Milling with RhinoCAM. The design task is to generate various geometric patterns by using the making knowledge and exploring through different toolpath ideas.

Making is a dynamic process which is full of possibilities and shapes are ambiguous in their nature. Our main motivation is to discover and experience new ways of interacting with tools to trigger different movements on surfaces to transform and generate shapes as material things. The workshop aims at relating shape transformations to visual making rules in order to analyze and discuss how rules may lead to ambiguity and emergence.

Experiments will be realized through small-scale 1:1 fabrications on wood panels with a do-it-yourself approach.