WILL WE ALL BE DEVELOPING OUR OWN "NEEDS" IN THE FUTURE?
We all know that digital technologies have revolutionised design and production making creators think quite differently about their work. “Printing the World” was in place to show us the 3D printed digital artefact. The digital age has spread to every field of production. Right from the start, I was fascinated by this printing feature and even looked into printers - that’s the gadget side of me - but why would I need one? I am not a creator. How much I was going to understand was another story. One point that really did make my eyebrows rise in surprise is that 3D was invented in 1860 by a certain François Willème who invented photo-sculpture. Then came the CAD (Computer-Assisted Design) in 1957 and in 1984 the first 3D printed patent was taken out. I thought that this discovery was much more recent.
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When we entered into the gallery, this was the first item. How beautiful could a bow and arrow be? And yes, it was 3 design done by a certain Jean-Baptise Fastrez in 2015. It is called Yatari
Look at the soles of these shoes - or do you call them baskets? They were designed by Nervous System and New Balance Athlectics.Inc. 3D printed and data driven midsoles, 2016.
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The “Active Shoes”, (2015) - shoe and template on stretched textile using 3D.
This though was extraordinary. A number of young designers have pushed the possibilities of 3D design and printing to their limits in their installation GROTTO ll. That amazing design is the fruit of algorithmic calculation. ANYTHING can be printed, even living cells opening up the possibility of remaking the human body….There was a model working with a crew of photographers…so you can see just how big the Grotto is.
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The Descendants created in 2015 by a Daniel Widrig in collaboration with Stratsys Ltd (http://www.stratasys.com/) is really quite stunning. Are these robot type creatures skins or future robots?
Nendo - the Diamond Chair, was created in 2008. 3D printings bit with frittage laser printing. Another complexity but Wikipedia is there to help us.
PRINTING METHOD
I have been following the IRCAM for over 30 years. Briefly, it is a centre of research for acoustic music established by Pierre Boulez, one of our most imminent conductors and composers in 1974. Today it is one of the world’s largest publicly funded centres for musical creation and scientific research. Mother and I went to their concerts on a regular basis. Their concept was “that music but be, more than anything else, the art of space?” Here the space is interpreted though music. We sat there (on the floor for most of the spectators - I leant on the wall). Hypnotic.
These branches consist of chestnut tree boughs joined together by 3D printed connections along with traditional material and digital technology. Curtains of the future? Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec (2015).
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Now a Growth Titanium Table designed in 2013 by Mathias Bengtsson.
He was born in Copenhagen in 1971 and now based in Stockholm. The table was developed by specially developed software that stimulated the growth of bone by cellular division and differentiation. A part of scientific research - but does it grow?
More chairs and tables…everything seems to be created with sophisticated techniques and from what I could see or understand, always new
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This Voxel Chair (2016) designed by Gilles Retsin and Manuel Jiménez Garci is again another technique. 3D printing by Fused Deposition Modeling
How about XenoCells
(2015) Alisa Andrasel researched a new technique and the possibilities
of architectural design. Again this is based on a system of algorithms
that draws on artificial intelligence and Deep Learning…the material
seems to fold and be halfway between liquid and solid, practically like a
crystal…These look like animals to me, a bowl and a vase?
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This is a “Disarming
Corrupter” (2013) designed by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez (2013). Frankly
it’s too beautiful to imagine that is was designed to help escape
electronic surveillance and the crackdown of file-sharing notably for
the printing of illegal or copyrighted items. The application makes the
files visually illegible…fortunately it seems they they can be restored.
I’m not too sure how it works but to have it on the wall could be quite
beautiful. 
Or a toaster with its technical design….Jesse Howard, Toaster Transparent Tools, 2012. Actually very worthwhile. So many of our every day electrical appliances are thrown out when they break down - unless you have a handy man around who can fix them. This toaster is an alternative to mass production. Here, with the plan, the consumer will be able to undertake repair...
A false limbs done by E-Nable in 2017. That seems to be a very obvious application for 3D printing.
These masks looked so real. I stopped and watched the video and how the plans were printed and then put into place by the designer.
“Stranger Visions” (2016) done by Heather Dewey-Hagborg. The “portraits” are derived from the analysis of genetic material found in or on hair, cigarette butts…collected in public places. Analysis of the DNA identifies some of the physical characteristics of the person…
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So what is 3D printing? It’s a generic term designating a variety of different technologies…if you want to go further, I discovered this video which makes the technical descriptions very much easier to understand….
3D PRINTING
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