Construct3D 2017

Wearable objects and state-of-the-art technology no longer belongs to science fiction, it can be accomplished by 3D printing. The evolution of digital and 3d printing has transformed many aspects of our lives pleasure, industry use and academic. This project is planning to conduct a serious of DIY and create wearable items as pleasure. The final goal is to achieve useful application.

From our 3D printing experiments in practice, we can distill several core concerns behind student’s engagement with DIY and craft. In the practices of playfulness and material engagement, we can find an underlying concern with pleasure. With the increased participation of small businesses in Maker events, and the many examples of DIY in development, we foreground utility.

We should design to take advantage of the means of production that best suit our design goals and realize that different parts of even the same project or artifact may be best produced in very different ways.

For all of the discussion at Construct3D about the opportunity a desktop 3D printer presents to educators, we spend far too little time deeply exploring the nature of the eccentric polymers that are themselves "the 3D stuff your dreams are made of." This panel brings together a dream team of filament manufacturers and experts to share insights into how thermoplastics, thermoelastomers, composite materials, etc, are produced, strategies for how to make better use of standards as well as "exotics," and why 2017 will be the most exciting year for desktop 3D printing materials to date.

There are many materials you can process through a desktop 3D printer these days, and a number of 3D printer models engineered specifically to better handle a broad range of material types, properties, and temperatures ranges. This panel will aim to address key topics for materials that can be applied to all FFF-style desktop 3D printers.

A panel of digital fabrication professional designers share experiences introducing desktop 3D printers into challenging, high-profile projects with clients and collaborators. We will start with a discussion of the state of this desktop technology in the current professional marketplace, and the software and fabrication strategies that these experts use to keep their projects afloat. We will then explore the evolving role of this ever changing technology in the design studio, how this class of tool helps (and hinders) communication with clients unfamiliar with design for manufacturing best practices, and what educators (and their career-minded students) can bring into the classroom, suggested by how these professionals invent and iterate 3D projects.