COVERSTORY 3D printing as painting FEATURE Job, Joris & Marieke
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C O M PA N Y I N S I G H T
James Dyson Award 2016
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3D Printing as painting
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Bauhaus: a vision
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Communication doctors
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Generative design
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32 ALUMNI
Lianne Sleebos
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Eindhoven or Delft?
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Finding or solving a problem?
36 QUIZ?
What type you are 44 D O I T YO U R S E L F
Shoebox phone projector
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Job, Joris & Marieke
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“Students have to figure out how to distinguish themselves”
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“Imagine an umbrella that is lit-up by rain drops”
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COMMITTEE OF 2015-2016
. Chéron Huskens Editor in Chief
Elisa Engelsma Acquisition
Suze Melissant Treasurer
Rens de Graaf Qualitate Qua
Alicia Calderón Chairwoman
Floris Jansen Layout
Christianne Francovich Secretary
Stijn Buurmanje External Affairs
Ilse de Cock Publicity
From 1st year students to professionals of the industry, all designers have the same doubts at some point: Is design part of art or engineering? Am I too arty to be an industrial designer? Should I know all about fluid mechanics or learn to draw better? This time in Turn The Page we explore the discussion on what design is, by listening to different approaches. Read in this issue’s Coverstory (page 8) how technical principles can be applied in a more intuitive way, to enhance the way we design. If what you are interested in is the differences
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between studying IDE in the two main TUs of the Netherlands, turn to page 42 to check Versus. Jump to page 48 to read the opinion of a professor of our faculty on what students from IDE can learn from the Eindhoven Design Academy. And for you, is design closer to art or to engineering? Turn the pages of our April issue and join this exciting discussion! Alicia Calderón Chairwoman
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TYPO BERLIN May 12th - May 14th, 2016 House of World Cultures, Berlin If you are not familiar with TYPO Berlin, you might think this event is all about typography and graphics, but it is not! The 20th edition of TYPO Berlin explores the theme "Beyond Design" and looks at strategies for responsible design. Since its first appearance in 1995, TYPO Berlin has become one of the world's most important creative venues and Europe’s biggest design event.
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USEFUL SCIENCE usefulscience.org Ever wished you could use science to improve your daily life but cannot be bothered to look through piles and piles of scientific papers to discover and decipher their significant findings? Well, we have found the website for you! A group of Canadian grad students elegantly summarized all these findings for you in just one sentence.
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MAKE: DIY PROJECTS & IDEAS makezine.com For all of you with a DIY mindset, find you next project here. From craft and design, to drones and vehicles, to digital fabrication, there is something for the inner maker in everyone. Just pick your difficulty and decide how much time you want to spend on it! It’s based on the bimonthly magazine Make.
SMART TEXTILES EXHIBITION April 1st - July 1st, 2016 Broeinest, Eindhoven Curious about what kind of innovative smart textiles are out there today and how they can be used? Then this free exhibition by Materia is a great place for your inquisitive mind. This exhibition has a crazy collection of all kinds of smart textiles, ranging trom lightweight yet strong materials to ones that are woven by robots to ones that can clean itself. Don't miss out and learn about the huge potentials of smart textiles here.
W H AT D E S I G N CAN DO June 30th - July 1st, 2016 Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 21- 6th floor, Amsterdam This year’s themes include: What Africa can do for Europe, What design can do for music, and What design can do for refugees. A mix of twenty designers, innovators and thinkers from around the world will present best practices, approaches and visions related to the three themes. The two-day conference will hold hands-on workshops, master classes, and brainstorm meetings for you to participate in. Come and discover how impactful design can be!
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PRIZE WINNERS From the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering io.tudelft.nl/prizewinners
SPD MASTER’S STUDENT DESIGNS WINNING WEARABLE AIR PURIFIER
IDE SPD Master's student Marnix de Kroon has won the first prize in the iGreen design competition organised by SIGN, the Dutch Foundation for Innovation in Greenhouse Horticulture, for his design 'Plantbag' - a backpack containing plants that filter air. B E S T PA P E R AWA R D F O R C H A R L I E WA N G
Prof. Charlie Wang and three co-writers won the Best Paper Award of 2015 for the paper ‘A unified framework for isotropic meshing based on narrow-band Euclidean distance transformation’. The paper was published in Computational Visual Media (CVM). T H R E E N O M I N AT I O N S F O R S T U D E N T P R O J E C T S C R Y S TA L C A B I N AWA R D 2 0 1 6
As many as three high-profile designs for airplane interiors of the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of TU Delft have been nominated for the Crystal Cabin Award in the category ‘University’. The Crystal Cabin Award is the only international award for excellence in aircraft interior innovation.
SPRINTING HELMET TITHON WINS IF D E S I G N AWA R D
The company BBB Cycling is the winner of an IF Design Award for a special sprinting bike helmet, mixing high ventilation with an aerodynamic design. Master students of the Advanced Embodiment Design course at our faculty have contributed to this winning design.
P R I N C E F R I S O E N G I N E E R S P U B L I C AWA R D FOR IDE ALUMNA
IDE STUDENTS SELECTED FOR ROTMAN DESIGN CHALLENGE (CANADA)
On 16 March IDE alumna Laura Klauss received the Prince Friso Engineers public award. She is co-founder of the Better Future Factory, a company that invents solutions for a sustainable future. Laura is responsible for the technical side of product development.
In the weekend of 5 and 6 March, a team of five SPD master students of the faculty of IDE presented their ideas on the future of finance for Fidelity Investments and the Rotman School of Management of Toronto, Canada. The Dutch team is the only team from Europe.
DESIGN COMPETITIONS From the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering io.tudelft.nl/designchallenges HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR REFUGEES!
Being a designer, what can you do to improve the reception and integration of refugees in urban areas? That’s the basic question of the global What Design Can Do Refugee Challenge. The deadline is 20 May 2016.
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CIRCULAR DESIGN CHALLENGE
Create a consumer product in combination with services and a business model for a circular economy. Be part of this unique design student project and get lots of inspiration, knowledge and exposure. The deadline is 1 June 2016.
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Tiwánee van der Horst, Architecture graduate from the TU Delft received an honourable mention and a 10 for her graduation project. I think it’s safe to say that when you receive a 10 for a project you must have done something good. However, what makes this project so special? What makes the difference between a 9 and a 10 or even a 9.8 and a 10.0? Her professors answered that question by referring to her use of ‘emotion’. It is that small touch that makes a world of a difference. by Christianne Francovich
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Emotion can be reached in many different ways and on many different levels. A generally accepted method of conveying emotion, is through art. The oxford dictionary defines art as: a visual form appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power. So if the ‘function’ of art is beauty and emotion, what is the ‘function’ of design? Is design, or architecture for that matter, primarily for practical purposes? My first reaction to that question is ‘no, of course not’, good design should also trigger certain emotion amongst its users. There are millions of studies revolving around user experience to prove that. Additionally, designers such as Daan Roosegaarde walk the line between art and design daily. However, how thin is that line? Or maybe we should look at it the other way around; how large is the overlay between design and art? Is it as large as we want it to be or is it possible to conduct
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rules for when something is considered art or when something is considered design engineering? Here at the TU Delft we love facts and figures. People in general love being able to put things in a box; ‘this is black’ and ‘this is white’. Life would be very easy if it could be categorised like that. If that is possible or not is a notion we should agree to disagree on because there are simply too many ideas on this subject. This however does not stop people from trying to categorise the world. Tiwánee, for example, does the same with her project. Her project takes the fairly new technique 3D printing and places it in the already established, some may call it rigid world of Architecture. I am not an Architecture student myself but I have always imagined architects as grey old men designing static roman buildings, very juvenile I know, however I have not been able to shake this image until 1
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Tiwánee presented her project to me. She takes 3D printing to a whole new level and in my opinion creates a vision that will revolutionise the world of Architecture. Her way of thinking could influence many disciplines of the TU Delft, especially Industrial Design Engineering. Tiwánee started her project by researching the architectural potential of 3D printing. From this moment on, Tiwánee was walking on fairly untouched ground, thus forcing herself to create a new architectural language around 3D printing.
“the machine as the painter & the nozzle as the brush” Her project is all about imagining an architecture movement not constrained by the contemporary production methods. By comparing 3D printing to painting she created a clever analogy; the machine as the painter, the nozzle as the brush, the building material as paint and material properties as pigments.
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Let’s take a look at the first analogy; the machine as painter. In other words, the machine is compared to the bodily movement of the painter. Through intuitive experiments, inspired by painting techniques of great artist such as Van Gogh, Tiwánee has tried to capture movement. The pictures displayed on these pages are examples of how she captures movement by using light.
These mechanical properties are aspects of the design that can be ‘controlled’ and this fits well into the world of an engineer who wants to know the consequences of certain choices beforehand. However, these mechanical properties combined with the capturing of movement creates an unknown consequence and with it a certain unpredictability. 1
The material, however, has another analogy; namely paint, especially the movement of a material between the liquid state and the solid state. Tiwánee experimented with many materials and compared different solidification states, finally after months of research she ‘created’ a hypothetical material which combines all of the needed material properties; taking inspiration from existing materials such as plastic and paint. Plastic is engineerable through modification of additives in that way it is possible to change mechanical properties and for example to define the structural capacity of a printed material or to make a printed material transparant.
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When combining art and engineering, “precision flows over into vagueness creating a certain atmosphere in which the duality becomes visible” Tiwánee explains. She concludes her research with saying that 3D printing or other digital fabrication methods will not revolutionise the architectural practice in that sense that it will become the best method to work with. However it did inspire her “in terms of what we can learn from the art of painting to denormalise and destabilise the engineer inside the architect and with that bring out the artist.”
“to denormalise and destabilise the engineer inside the architect.” I really like the phrase “to denormalise and destabilise the engineer inside the architect.” Because I believe the same is true for designers. By thinking out of the normal guidelines that the TU Delft equips you with, you can create things with more value than someone who follows the ‘ordinary’ rules. Exploring a more creative side of design will influence your work significantly, and in my opinion will help it rise above. Design then becomes a combination of rationality and intuition, of precision and causality. 3 If you are interested in Tiwánee’s project and want to read more, her complete thesis can be found at repository.tudelft.nl
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Art without engineering is dreaming; Engineering without art is calculating.