Material Driven Design

When:

20 June 2018,09:00 Hour

- 00:00 Hour

Location:Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft Art Centre Delft

Event type:Masterclass

Event organizer:Industrieel Ontwerpen

Pricing members of BNO, KIVI IO, Design Management Network or HumanFactorsNL:€850,00

Pricing IDE alumni:€750,00

Pricing Others:€950,00

Omschrijving

Two-Day Masterclass. Material Driven Design. Designing for material experiences with a material as starting point.

Materials research is constantly evolving, leading to novel, superior materials like bio-based plastics, piezoelectric textiles, and temperature sensitive polymers. The potential experiences of these unfamiliar, unusual and novel emerging materials are often challenging to envision and design for.

Material Driven Design (MDD) supports the design of meaningful material applications with the material as a point of departure. Designers qualify the material not only for what it is, but also for what it does, what it expresses to us, what it elicits from us, and what it makes us do. MDD helps designers to structure, communicate and reflect on their actions in design for material experiences, and gain design competences in exploring, understanding, defining and mobilizing the material’s novel properties.

Curriculum

Learning Objectives
During this master class, you will learn to:
• learn how to implement the MDD method when designing with materials;
• understand how to characterise materials technically and experientially;
• gain competence in bridging technical properties and experiential qualities of materials;
• get a feeling for the underlying reasons of our material experiences;
• gain hands-on experiences in designing with unique emerging materials.

Content
• Material Driven Design (MDD) Method: Four steps to meaningful material applications;
• Technical and experiential characterisation of materials;
• Hands-on sessions to tinker and design with some unique emerging materials.

Spreker(s)

Elvin Karana is Associate Professor at IDE, TU Delft. She leads research projects focusing on design for material experiences, demonstrating the applicability of this thinking in design research and design practice. She is the founder of the Materials Experience Lab.