scaling up // design inspired applications of 3d printing
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SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems
of makingProfessor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand
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Scaling up takes us on a journey through 3D printing on a number of levels; from diversity in the size of objects and
structures, to the breadth and novelty of applications, and ultimately moving beyond the printed object itself to
include more expansive systems of making and remaking. Calling on three speculative projects, the journey
demonstrates how design as a creative discipline mediates between technology and people and vice versa - helping to
identify new and inspirational applications of 3D printing technology. In response to our geographical location in
the South Pacific, this includes unexpected applications for organisations not normally associated with 3D printing
through to empowering local indigenous communities with new and more sustainable forms of production and
construction.
#1: THE 3D DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE // my national libraryVUW Summer Scholars // Ryan Achten / Dylan Hughes-Ward
Research Assistant // Ruth Barnard
Supervisors // Simon Fraser / Walter Langelaar / Tim Miller / Rhazes Spell
National Library Liaison // Peter Rowlands /
https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-digital-archive-of-the-future
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The advent of the www has seen an exponential increase in the amount of digital data in circulation. The accompanying
ease of access to this information raises questions about the role of libraries and archives in the future. At the
same time these very technologies and infrastructures provide exciting opportunities to reinvent and reinvigorate
libraries. In particular, disruptive technologies like 3D printing offer special opportunities to transform libraries
from repositories into creative spaces and thereby expand the National Library of New Zealand’s mandate to ‘collect,
connect, and co-create knowledge’ in powerful new ways. Anticipating this potential, My National Library seeks to
demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in making this shift.
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https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-digital-archive-of-the-future
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see ‘my national library’ video clip at
https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-digital-archive-of-the-future
#2: RENEWING MATERIALS // 3D printing and distributed recycling
in the PacificMaster of Design Innovation Graduate // Lionel Taito-Matamua
VUW Faculty // Jeongbin OK / Simon Fraser
http://unmakingwaste2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UMW_Session_9.pdf
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Looking beyond our national frontiers, we explore the serious issue of plastic waste in the Pacific. Using Samoa as a
case study, we suggest that distributed recycling combined with 3D printing offers an opportunity to repurpose and
add new value to this difficult waste stream. It also offers potential to engage diverse local communities in Samoa
by combining notions of participatory design, makerspaces and online communities with traditional Samoan social
concepts such as ‘Fa’a Samoa’, or ‘the Samoan way’ and sense of community – in the pursuit of workable, economically
viable, socially empowering and sustainable systems for repurposing and upcycling plastic waste; printed out in the
form of useful and culturally meaningful 3D printed objects, artefacts and products.
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// LIONEL TAITO-MATAMUA
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RECYCLEBOT v1.0 // The advent of a $750 kit printer from Makerbot in 2009 signalled the possibility
of a made@home revolution. Students at Victoria University of Wellington responded with a
recycled@home scenario and the resulting Recyclebot v1.0
SAMOAN ARTIST NAOMI APELU // Image courtesy of
Tiapapata Art Centre
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‘OPEN SOURCE’ RECYCLING LAB // filabot reclaimer and filabot original©
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http://www.creative-pathways.com/ Building upon the outcome and with a view towards implementation, Creative Pathways, an educational
initiative aimed at propagating 3D printing as an experiential learning facilitator in science curricula is being piloted in local
schools with high Māori/Pacific attendance in the Wellington region.
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
The use of computational formats and digital tools including machine fabrication by indigenous people worldwide to
augment traditional practices and material culture is becoming more and more commonplace. However within the practice
of architecture while there are indigenous architectural practitioners utilizing digital tools, it is unclear as to
whether there is motivation to implement traditional indigenous knowledge in conjunction with these computational
instruments and methodologies. This speculative project explores how the tools might be used to investigate the
potential for indigenous development, cultural empowerment and innovation. It is part of a collaborative ‘domain
based’ research laboratory between and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and SITUA (Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding
Alliance). SITUA partners with Māori iwi (tribes) and enables projects within iwi domains, using both Mātauranga
Māori (Māori knowledge) and new technologies. In this case, in the design and prototyping of a 3D printed manuhiri
whare — a pavilion for visitors on their Muriwai Marae (meeting place).
#3: LOCALISED PRODUCTION // a collaborative indigenous domain based
research labAll work attributed to // Ngāi Tāmanuhiri / Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand / SITUA: Founder Derek Kawiti /
Marc Aurel Schnabel / James Durcan
http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/caadria2016_063.pdf
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS
LANDSCAPE / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS
LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
IMAGES OF DOMAIN BASE
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
IMAGES OF MATERIALS
FROM DOMAINIMAGES OF CULTURAL PARAMETERS
//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS
LANDSCAPE/ NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS
LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS
LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
NGĀI TĀMANUHIRI MANUHIRI WHARE // a pavilion for visitors on Muriwai Marae
//DELTA STYLE THREE ARM CLAY EXTRUSION PRINTER
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
/Iteration No.2
/Iteration No.1
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
[ F I R I N G ]
//PRINTING AND CLAY PROCESSING
//DIGITAL MODELLING AND PARAMETRIC DESIGN
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//1:20 SCALE PROTOTYPE
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
//pacific environs
CBIM/ BIM
//ASSEMBLY OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS
SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance
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SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems
of makingProfessor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fad
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