MSDMT PRACTICUM
GRADUATE STUDIO
MSDMT 700 - FALL 2024PROFESSORS
Mark Meier, Chris HumphreySensing - Systems - Assemblies
DMT Practicum serves as an intensive launch into the Digital and Material Technologies program with 3 major goals:
1. An intensive tooling-up: students acquire the skill sets needed to operate a suite of machines and softwares, and to recognize tool capacities and strategies.
2. The development of production logics: students critically discuss and develop tools, jigs, and methods of making to advance fabrication technique and material insight.
3. Conscious decision assessment: students carefully investigate, reveal, and respond to the results of design decisions ranging in topics from project longevity, multiple-use, material waste, energy use, and environmental and health impacts.
The course will investigate three themes:
1. Sensing: integration of custom coded devices that respond to environmental inputs and inform data driven material outputs.
2. Systems: materials and how they inform different methods of manufacturing.
3. Assemblies: how the components come together to form composite constructions.
STUDENTS
Anisha Chakrabarty, Pearl Jishtu
PROFESSORS
Mark Meier, Chris Humphrey
This project is a proposed interactive installation for the North Campus Diag, merging organic geometry, dynamic lighting, and digital engagement. The design features a stainless steel structural framework supporting modular curved polycarbonate fins layered with dichroic films, creating a vibrant, ever-shifting play of colors. By day, the reflective surfaces generate a mesmerizing prism effect, while at night, gradient LED lighting responds to movement through motion sensors and gesture control. QR codes enable visitors to leave a lasting digital imprint, archiving memories much like ancient petroglyphs. By blending technology with tradition, Digital Footprint reinterprets age-old methods of recording presence, transforming the act of being in a space into a shared, evolving narrative.