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Title: Crystal Growth

Category: #self-growth #selfassembly

Author: Tokujin Yoshioka

Year: 2012

Url: http://electropatchwork.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/crystal-growth-by-tokujin/

http://www.domusweb.it/en/design/mother-of-invention-second-nature-by-tokujin/

Description: Tokujin Yoshioka does not sculpt his work, but grows it. His Venus chair was created by immersing a plastic mesh substrate into a tank filled with a chemical solution. Gradually crystals precipitate onto the substrate and give structure to the chair. It might not be the most comfortable place to take a seat, but it’s a great example of guided growth

Title: Self-Assembling Virus

Category: #selfassembly

Author: Arthur J Olson

Year: 2012

Url: http://phyllotax.is/self-assembly/

Description: This video shot in real time with no tricks shows the process of self-assembly driven by random motion. It demonstrates how viruses and other complex biological organisms put themselves together without direction from the outside, except random motion from heat.

The Self-Assembly Line aims to construct a large-scale version of self-assembly virus modules as a user-interactive and performative structure. This is an installation that builds installations, where people engage the assembly process by rotating the enclosure, changing the speed/direction and adding parts to influence the performance of self-assembly at macro-scales.

Title: Flight Assembled Architecture

Category: #self-assembly #roboticarchitecturalenvironments

Author: Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello d’Andrea

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/24/flight-assembled-architecture-by-gramazio-kohler-and-raffaello-dandrea/

Description: Flying robots will assemble a six metre-high tower

Title: Can we make things that make themselves?

 Category: #selfassembly #selfreplicate #artificialintelligence

Author: Skylar Tibbits

Year: 2011

Url: http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_can_we_make_things_that_make_themselves.html

Description: MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly, the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), they can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together. It’s a big concept at early stages; Tibbits shows three in-the-lab projects that hint at what a self-assembling future might look like.

Title: Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Category: #bioengineering #selfassembly #livingmaterial Author:  WYSS Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering Year: 2009 Url: http://wyss.harvard.edu/ Description: Inspired by the design strategies that living systems use to adapt and compete for survival, its focus is on high-risk research and technology development, with the goal of creating new materials and devices that will transform medicine and create a more sustainable world. The Institute’s faculty, staff and collaborating institutions came together to confront the bioinspired engineering challenge through a process of self-assembly – much like the way nature builds.

Title: Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Category: #bioengineering #selfassembly #livingmaterial

Author:  WYSS Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering

Year: 2009

Url: http://wyss.harvard.edu/

Description: Inspired by the design strategies that living systems use to adapt and compete for survival, its focus is on high-risk research and technology development, with the goal of creating new materials and devices that will transform medicine and create a more sustainable world. The Institute’s faculty, staff and collaborating institutions came together to confront the bioinspired engineering challenge through a process of self-assembly – much like the way nature builds.