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The theme of this years designmai<\/a> was “digitalability”. Interestingly for product design this seemed to be ultimately linked to 3D-rapid-prototyping<\/a> – at least in the main exhibition<\/a>. Maybe rapid prototyping was suddenly so present due to its similarities to more-or-less current trends in biology in particular to cloning and bio-engineering in general or to trends in robotics<\/a>. However since I once worked here<\/a> (as an intern) and saw their animal cages it always takes quite some effort to bring myself to think about these issues. <\/p>\n The trend is certainly also due to the advancements of digital techniques<\/a> and availability<\/a>. (see also the recent experiments with sugar<\/a> and milk<\/a>)<\/p>\n The theme of this years designmai was “digitalability”. Interestingly for product design this seemed to be ultimately linked to 3D-rapid-prototyping – at least in the main exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,13,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nI would have liked to see more references towards material science. Last not least rapid prototyped material has (sofar) limited application possibilities (in particular you cant make chairs<\/a> like this…:(). Nevertheless this new wave gave finally two mathematicians the possibility to exhibit in a design exhibition – namely Bathsheba Grossmann<\/a>, who showed a sculpture and collegue Konrad Polthier<\/a> who -in collaboration with some students from LTH- displayed minimal surfaces. Also if the first rapid prototyping minimal (and other) surfaces made their rounds probably something like 8 years ago (within the math department) it was very nice to see them in this new context. I will make a separat post about the math part.<\/p>\n![\"browserproto3.gif\"](\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2007\/05\/browserproto3.gif\")
<\/p>\n“machine dance with monster eye-eye-browser” artwork by Claudia Was and Orr Beth-Not with additional contributions by Oda Borg. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"