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"Prototyping Tomorrow" Project Presentations

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October 11, 2019 - 11:30am – 1:00pm10/11/2019 11:30am 10/11/2019 1:00pm "Prototyping Tomorrow" Project Presentations Prototyping Tomorrow Project Presentations Join us on Friday, October 11 for presentations from each of the 2018 Prototyping Tomorrow grant recipients as they share the outcomes of their projects. To support the research and creative practice thrust of Building Tomorrow, Dean Massey launched a college-wide competitive research incentive funding program, Prototyping Tomorrow. By supporting work that moves concepts from idea into some form of provisional reality, allowing a hypothesis to be studied, tested, and refined iteratively, Prototyping Tomorrow targets the deployment and potential impact of the discoveries made over the past decade via precursors of Research Through Making, Research on the City, and Research Through Planning. Last spring, faculty submitted 13 proposals. Based on evaluation by a jury of Deborah Cullinan (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Michael Murphy (MASS Design Group), and Ron Rael (University of California Berkeley), Dean Massey committed $140,000 to fund seven of these proposals, which are listed below: BREATHING TERRITORIES Leads: Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor; Geoff Thün, Associate Professor; Ersela Kripa, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech College of Architecture, El Paso | Partner, AGENCY; Stephen Mueller, Instructor, Texas Tech College of Architecture, El Paso | Partner, AGENCY Description: Breathing Territories addresses questions of material territories that cross national divides in the US/Mexico borderlands and engages the urgent matter of air quality and public health in the region of El Paso/Ciudad Juárez. COLLECTIVE REALITY: IMAGE WITHOUT OWNERSHIP Lead: McLain Clutter, Associate Professor Participants: Cyrus Peñarroyo, Assistant Professor; Laida Aguirre, 2017-2018 William Muschenheim Fellow; Mark Lindquist, Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture; Tiffany Graham Project Director at Cleveland-based LAND studio; Vince Reddy, Project Manager at Cleveland-based LAND studio. Description: This project develops an augmented reality application allowing residents of marginalized urban communities to image alternative spatial and social scenarios beyond conventionalized epistemologies of urban development. COMPRESSED LIGHT Lead: Catie Newell, Associate Professor Collaborator: etC Construction Services Partnerships: Fish Factory Creative Center, Bullseye Glass, CCS Glass Studio, U-M Biological Center, Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop Description: Compressed Light is an experimental construction process that works with cast glass blocks in compression, pairing their strength and light transmission qualities to develop systems that interrelate in form and construction to concrete block counterparts. DE:MOLDING: CONCRETE 3D PRINTING FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING ENVELOPES Leads: Wes McGee, Assistant Professor; Tsz Yan Ng, Assistant Professor; Dr. Victor Li, E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor, Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Macromolecular Science of Engineering Partner Organizations: Davide Zampini, Global R&D and Intellectual Property Head of Cemex Group; Stu Sheppard, CEO Gudel Americas; Mike Chaffee, Senior Applications Engineer, Kuka Robotics Description: This research rethinks contemporary methods of concrete design and construction while accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies into the construction sector. INCLUSIVE SOCIO-SENSORY THEATER Leads: Sean Ahlquist, Assistant Professor; Dionne O’Dell, Michigan State University, Department of Theatre, Outreach and Engagement Partner Organizations: Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Children’s & Science Museum; MSU Department of Theatre: Arena & Studio performance venues, Auditorium rehearsal space Description: Combing sensorial engagement and participatory theater as means to model social behavior for children with autism spectrum disorder in complex sensory-toxic environments INFORMAL + SUSTAINABLE: DESIGNING ANTICIPATORY URBAN STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG INFORMAL OCCUPATIONS IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL Leads: María Arquero de Alarcón, Associate Professor; Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Assistant Professor Collaborators: Olaia Chivite Amigo (MArch ‘18), Michael Amidon (MUD ‘18) Partner Organization: UF ABC LabJUTA (Francisco Comarú, Benedito Roberto Barbosa, Patricia Cezario Silva, Talita Anzel Gonzales) Description: In partnership with LabJUTA, this project will devise, test and disseminate visionary tactics of inhabitation for younger occupations while stewarding the land, protecting human rights and adding cultural meaning to the found environmental values. POST POST ROCK: APPLYING EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO FABRICATION RESEARCH Leads: Meredith Miller, Assistant Professor; Thomas Moran, Assistant Professor Partner: Divya Patil Hangargekar, Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan Description: Having developed fabrication methods for combining waste plastics and construction debris into a new stone-like material, Meredith Miller and Thom Moran are partnering with the Center for Entrepreneurship to connect with stakeholders and define a specific building application for the material. Art + Architecture Building America/Detroit public

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Prototyping Tomorrow Project Presentations

Join us on Friday, October 11 for presentations from each of the 2018 Prototyping Tomorrow grant recipients as they share the outcomes of their projects.

To support the research and creative practice thrust of Building Tomorrow, Dean Massey launched a college-wide competitive research incentive funding program, Prototyping Tomorrow. By supporting work that moves concepts from idea into some form of provisional reality, allowing a hypothesis to be studied, tested, and refined iteratively, Prototyping Tomorrow targets the deployment and potential impact of the discoveries made over the past decade via precursors of Research Through Making, Research on the City, and Research Through Planning.

Last spring, faculty submitted 13 proposals. Based on evaluation by a jury of Deborah Cullinan (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), Michael Murphy (MASS Design Group), and Ron Rael (University of California Berkeley), Dean Massey committed $140,000 to fund seven of these proposals, which are listed below:

BREATHING TERRITORIES
Leads: Kathy Velikov, Associate Professor; Geoff Thün, Associate Professor; Ersela Kripa, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech College of Architecture, El Paso | Partner, AGENCY; Stephen Mueller, Instructor, Texas Tech College of Architecture, El Paso | Partner, AGENCY
Description: Breathing Territories addresses questions of material territories that cross national divides in the US/Mexico borderlands and engages the urgent matter of air quality and public health in the region of El Paso/Ciudad Juárez.

COLLECTIVE REALITY: IMAGE WITHOUT OWNERSHIP
Lead: McLain Clutter, Associate Professor
Participants: Cyrus Peñarroyo, Assistant Professor; Laida Aguirre, 2017-2018 William Muschenheim Fellow; Mark Lindquist, Assistant Professor Landscape Architecture; Tiffany Graham Project Director at Cleveland-based LAND studio; Vince Reddy, Project Manager at Cleveland-based LAND studio.
Description: This project develops an augmented reality application allowing residents of marginalized urban communities to image alternative spatial and social scenarios beyond conventionalized epistemologies of urban development.

COMPRESSED LIGHT
Lead: Catie Newell, Associate Professor
Collaborator: etC Construction Services
Partnerships: Fish Factory Creative Center, Bullseye Glass, CCS Glass Studio, U-M Biological Center, Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop
Description: Compressed Light is an experimental construction process that works with cast glass blocks in compression, pairing their strength and light transmission qualities to develop systems that interrelate in form and construction to concrete block counterparts.

DE:MOLDING: CONCRETE 3D PRINTING FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE BUILDING ENVELOPES
Leads: Wes McGee, Assistant Professor; Tsz Yan Ng, Assistant Professor; Dr. Victor Li, E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor, Prof. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and Macromolecular Science of Engineering
Partner Organizations: Davide Zampini, Global R&D and Intellectual Property Head of Cemex Group; Stu Sheppard, CEO Gudel Americas; Mike Chaffee, Senior Applications Engineer, Kuka Robotics
Description: This research rethinks contemporary methods of concrete design and construction while accelerating the adoption of emerging technologies into the construction sector.

INCLUSIVE SOCIO-SENSORY THEATER
Leads: Sean Ahlquist, Assistant Professor; Dionne O’Dell, Michigan State University, Department of Theatre, Outreach and Engagement
Partner Organizations: Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Children’s & Science Museum; MSU Department of Theatre: Arena & Studio performance venues, Auditorium rehearsal space
Description: Combing sensorial engagement and participatory theater as means to model social behavior for children with autism spectrum disorder in complex sensory-toxic environments

INFORMAL + SUSTAINABLE: DESIGNING ANTICIPATORY URBAN STRATEGIES FOR YOUNG INFORMAL OCCUPATIONS IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL
Leads: María Arquero de Alarcón, Associate Professor; Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Assistant Professor
Collaborators: Olaia Chivite Amigo (MArch ‘18), Michael Amidon (MUD ‘18)
Partner Organization: UF ABC LabJUTA (Francisco Comarú, Benedito Roberto Barbosa, Patricia Cezario Silva, Talita Anzel Gonzales)
Description: In partnership with LabJUTA, this project will devise, test and disseminate visionary tactics of inhabitation for younger occupations while stewarding the land, protecting human rights and adding cultural meaning to the found environmental values.

POST POST ROCK: APPLYING EVIDENCE-BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO FABRICATION RESEARCH
Leads: Meredith Miller, Assistant Professor; Thomas Moran, Assistant Professor
Partner: Divya Patil Hangargekar, Center for Entrepreneurship, University of Michigan
Description: Having developed fabrication methods for combining waste plastics and construction debris into a new stone-like material, Meredith Miller and Thom Moran are partnering with the Center for Entrepreneurship to connect with stakeholders and define a specific building application for the material.