Skills:
Research
Industrial Design
Physical Prototyping
Morphing Matter Lab Research
Morphing Matter lab develops materials, tools, and applications of adaptive, dynamic and intelligent morphing matter from nano to macro scales.
In the last year, I have had the pleasure of taking part in the Morphing Matter Lab, engaging in projects and turning what could be a fictional future into the present day through a blend of design and engineering.
Geodesy — Transforming Surfaces and Forms through 4D Printing
— Focused on extending the capabilities of FDM-based 4D printing, this project focuses on the morphing of continuous double-curvature surfaces or surface textures. Flatly printed 3D prints transform and can be manipulated from specific print patterns into complex shapes and textures.
Paper is available upon request. Accepted to CHI 2019.
Morphing Futures Workshop
While at the Morphing Matter Lab, I led a small effort to discuss and bring about design, and speculative brainstorms, workshops, and group sessions. Here, the lab can come together and release ties to immediate research problems in order to speculate how the future can look like with morphing matter in the world.
Paper Actuator — Giving Paper Life
The paper actuator project developed in our lab can be easily embedded into everyday objects to enable new types of paper-based shape-changing interfaces that exhibit motion, transformation, and rich interactions such as pop-up books, toys, origami robots, and lampshades.
— It aims to transform and expend what we know of paper today by merging it with the behaviors of thermo-plastics; bringing new life to an old material.