NSL Blog
Complexity, simplexity, self-assembly
April 8, 2013
Transition to transformation
The No Straight Lines challenge: be realistic imagine the impossible, then create it. The Self-Assembly Lab at MIT is a cross-disciplinary research lab made up from: designers, scientists and engineers inventing self-assembly technologies aimed at re-imagining the processes of construction, manufacturing and infrastructure in the built environment. Craftsmanship in a non-linear world, self-assembly they say is a process by which disordered parts build an ordered structure through only local interaction.
Self-Assembly Lab, MIT from Skylar Tibbits on Vimeo.
Further reading
Alan Moore on Twitter
- RT @MeganMcCubbin: My stepdad @ChrisGPackham has bared the brunt of obsessive bullies who’ve burnt down his gates, thrown dead animals into…
- Do Design available in German. #doingbeauty #design t.co/b76DS66rWR
- Then write your symphony #nationalpoetryday
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