The campus will remain closed until 12 noon Thursday, 02/13/25. Students should log into Canvas for specific class information from their instructors. Please contact event organizers for information on specific activities. Normal operations will resume at 12pm on Thursday.
Sara Codarin is a techno-optimist and she loves robots. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara in Italy where her doctoral research investigated robotic manufacturing for the conservation of Cultural Heritage. She looked at innovative methods to update design workflows with a technology-driven approach. She spent an academic year as a visiting scholar at the College of Architecture and Design of Lawrence Technological University to develop an experimental application of her research. Her experiments simulated on-site robo-fabrication processes to produce customized units for the recovery of damaged buildings. Her work is tied to broader economic, technological, and social changes that will affect the building culture in the next future. She holds a MArch from the University of Ferrara where she was awarded two scholarships to study abroad at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage in Bordeaux, France, and the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, Canada. She publishes her work consistently and serves as a reviewer for international conferences and journals. Her research themes resonate in her courses, which span from studio work to software labs, eco issues seminars, and digital (robo) fabrication courses.
When we learned to paint we had to understand how to hold the brush, test the pressure against the resulting brush strokes, and build confidence in the dexterity of our gesture. “Robotic Mark Making” traces our process of re-learning to paint but this time using a retired automotive welding robot as an extension of our hands. With this research, we are seeking the productive confluence between an old form of analog expression and the opportunities afforded by new digital technologies. We began with a sketchbook as a means to intimately share different attempts and reflections on the successes and failures with this type of work. The resulting sketchbook documents the various attempts, iterations, parameters, and variables against the circumstances of the pen, paper, humidity, and whim of the designers.
Sponsoring Organization(s): DigitalFUTURES and ACADIA
Use Your Cell Phone as a Document Camera in Zoom
From Computer
Log in and start your Zoom session with participants
From Phone
To use your cell phone as a makeshift document camera
