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Awards:

London Design Museum's Beazley Digital Design of the Year Award, 2018

Ars Electronica STARTS Prize, 2017                                                           

LinkedIn Next Wave: Top Professionals 35 & Under, 2016                                              

R&D Magazine Innovator of the Year Award, 2015                                                   

National Geographic Explorer, 2015                                                                       

Fast Company Top World Changing Ideas, 2015                                                   

WIRED Inaugural Fellow, 2014                                                                                

WIRED Top Designs, 2014                                                                           

Core77 Design Award, 2014                                                                             

Architectural League of NY Prize, 2013                                                                     

Visionary Innovation Award, Manufacturing Leadership Summit, 2013                          

Next Idea in Art & Technology Award, Ars Electronica, 2013           

TED Senior Fellow, 2012

 

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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/self-assembly-the-power-of-organizing-the-unorganized-skylar-tibbits From something as familiar as our bodies to things vast as the formation of galaxies, we can observe the process of self-assembly, or when unordered parts come together in an organized structure. Skylar Tibbits explains how we see self-assembly at work in biology and chemistry -- and even in our future technologies.
June 3 (Bloomberg) --- What if if a table or a bridge could build itself? If researchers at the self-assembly lab at MIT have their way, parts will someday put themselves together. Skylar Tibbits shows Bloomberg what a self-assembling future could look like.
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Skylar Tibbits and his team at MIT's Self Assembly Lab are working on programmable materials to create 4-D printing. What exactly is 4-D printing? The Self Assembly Lab works to create physical objects that can self-construct from stored memory inside their materials, adding what is commonly referred to as the 4th dimension - time - to 3-D printing.
In collaboration with Skylar Tibbits' Self Assembly Lab at MIT, Steelcase has unveiled a new method of 3D printing called "rapid liquid printing". Especially for a furniture and interior design company like Steelcase, this technique offers a process that competes with the speed, size, and materials available to existing 3D printing methods.