The J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics presents Skylar Tibbits talking about \u201cA 4D Future,\u201d February 18 at 7:30 p.m. in the Atherton Union Reilly Room. Admission is free and open to the public without tickets.<\/p>\n
3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s. TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing: where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print objects that then reshape themselves or self-assemble over time. Think: a printed cube that folds before your eyes, or a printed pipe able to sense the need to expand or contract.<\/p>\n
In this keynote, Tibbits explains how we are now able to program nearly everything\u2014from bits of DNA, proteins, cells, and proto-cells; to products, architecture, and infrastructure. Programmability and computing are becoming ubiquitous across scales and disciplines. Tibbits shows us how soon these small-scale technologies will translate into solutions for large-scale applications\u2014and what it means for your industry.<\/p>\n
Tibbits, Director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, is a trained Architect, Designer, Computer Scientist and Artist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly and programmable material technologies for our built environment. He is currently a faculty member in MIT\u2019s Department of Architecture, teaching graduate and undergraduate design studios and co-teaching How to Make (Almost) Anything, a seminar at MIT\u2019s Media Lab.<\/p>\n
Tibbits was awarded a 2013 Architecture League Prize, TED Senior Fellowship and has been named a Revolutionary Mind in SEED Magazine\u2019s 2008 Design Issue. Previously, he has worked at a number of renowned design offices including: Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture and Point b Design. He has designed and built large-scale installations around the world, including locations in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, Calgary, Berlin, Frankfurt, Long Beach, Edinburgh and Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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