Perception of Materials by Designers
Description
On Tuesday 11 December, TU Delft's Faculty of Industrial Design (Bernd Schierbeek hall) will host an evening meeting entitled "The Experience of Materials by Designers".
This event is linked to an exhibition on materials in the hall of the faculty.
In the dozens of meetings held in the context of "the experience of...", the experience of materials by the designer has never been explicitly discussed. It was always about the end user, while it is plausible that the view of materials by designers differs from that of many end users.
Designers will think more about materials and be more sensitive to aspects such as authenticity. It used to be possible to speak of "see what you get". If it looked like wood you could assume it was wood. Nowadays, we may have to distinguish between material and decor. It has become commonplace to be fooled. Material has become an illusion, it is just a print and, using modern techniques, not even the same one all the time. Designs will soon be electronically retrievable.
It turns out that we very often borrow the designs from established materials. More than 50% of the designs sold by Abet are borrowed from classic materials.
An interesting question on 11 December is how we deal with this as designers. Key question is: Do we take this development for granted or do we go for "honest" use of materials.
The final programme will be published soon
Speaker: Dr Elvin Karana, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft
Title: Designerly needs in Material Decisions
Adapting materials education in design by integrating different tools and methods for understanding both tangible and intangible aspects of materials is a vital need when current practices in design are considered. In this lecture, three initiatives will be presented to teach materials in design education to achieve better balance with current practices in the domain of design. These are: (1) material driven design projects; (2) a new 'materials and design' course which integrates both utilitarian and experiential concerns in materials selection; and (3) a materials library, implemented to the materials course.
Speaker: Jacob Alkema, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Eindhoven, also independent artist
Title: Material Design: a new design discipline?
Maximum design freedom would exist if designers could design materials and material systems themselves. A fascinating thought in light of the history in which materials were taken from the warehouse. Jacob Alkema has been researching new material systems for years.
Speaker(s)
Among other things, based on ceramics and concrete. As a lecturer in industrial design, he is interested in whether specific methodological knowledge could contribute to the development of new materials. The key question is whether designing materials is substantially different from designing 'ordinary' products.
Speaker: Wim Poelman, Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, also chairman of the Material Design Foundation.
Title: Material development and body language of products
As products become more intelligent, there will be a greater need for nuanced means of communication with people. Intelligent products such as animals, do not communicate with LEDs, beeps and screens. They communicate with body language, which is possible as a result of smart material systems such as muscles and changing pigments.
A lot of material development is therefore needed in this area. This can only take place in collaboration between three disciplines. Industrial designers who define products, nanotechnologists who develop new responsive materials and computer scientists who can control them
Location
Faculty of Industrial Design, TU Delft
Landbergstraat 15 2628 CE Delft
Organiser
Industrial Design
Foundation MaterialDesign and Product
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