ECO-DESIGN EXPERIMENTS IN DIGITAL MANUFACTURING

(Practical activities, Experimental laboratory, Workshop)

  • Language: ITALIAN
  • Campus: SPAZIO ESTERNO AL POLIMI
  • Enrollment: 11-05-2022to hour 12:00 on
    31-05-2022
  • Subject area: Tools|Tech and society
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Teacher in charge
DI PRETE BARBARA
Credits
2
Hours to attend
15
Prerequisites

Previous skills in the use of the following software are required: Rhino, CAD, Adobe Package

Max. number of students
15
Selection Criteria
Curriculum and average
Topics:
SUSTAINABILITY, digital manufacturing, recycling, social innovation
Tag
Environment and land planning, Interior design, Product design, Circular economy, Industry 4.0, Materials, Environmental and social sustainability

Description of the initiative

Workshop for the design of objects related to the recycling of plastics and other materials, processed in terms of environmental, economic and production sustainability. 
The students - in collaboration with the association Repubblica del Design - will realize concepts for the realization of furniture and devices for the community of Dergano, Lancetti and Bovisa (both indoor and outdoor objects).
Some of these furnishings will be selected and then realized by a fablab in the area, so all the concepts will have to be optimized also in terms of production feasibility.
The workshop, conducted in the spaces of the fablab, will provide information and tools to understand the digital manufacturing system and develop a design informed by it.
The goal is to bring students closer to the techniques of digital fabrication (3D printing, cnc), make them participate in the experiments currently underway on the recycling of impure plastic materials, raise awareness in an ecological perspective, but also in social innovation, involving local actors (from time to time citizens, associations, schools). The designed objects, in fact, will have to respond to the needs of the target community.
The realization phase will be carried out at the end of the workshop; for the students interested in following this process as well, the fablab involved in the realization will give the possibility to assist to the work, so that the workshop participants can follow the project process from the conception to the final production.

Duration

dal June 2022 a July 2022

Calendar

- Lezione di lancio brief e introduzione alle sperimentazioni di riciclo in digital fabrication: 7 giugno 2022, durante la Milano Design Week - 3h, in presenza
- Lezione tecnico-dimostrativa con i macchinari: 8 giugno 2022, durante la Milano Design Week - 3h, in presenza
- Tre revisioni (preferenzialmente a piccoli gruppi): 1 volta a settimana nella settimana del 13 giugno, in quella del 20 giugno e in quella del 27 giugno - on line o in presenza, date da concordare con i singoli gruppi
- Consegna conclusiva con presentazione collettiva: 1 luglio 2022 - 3h, in presenza
- Fase realizzativa (facoltativa): 1-10 luglio, in presenza, in momenti concordati con il fablab

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