Digital + Craft : Textile

3 units

The seminar blurs the distinct boundaries between Digital computing modeling and manual Craft making. The ease and immediacy of the hand in Craft making is channeled into the process of Digital computer modeling. The seminar dwells in the material complexity and the aesthetic allure of Textile and through the manner of Digital + Craft, begins to blur the classic opposition of structure and ornament. The seminar begins with the modeling of Textiles in the computing environment, using the parametric controlled materials constraints of Cloth in Autodesk Maya or other Physics simulation software. CAD CAM capabilities will be employed to output pattern layout and cutting. The students are asked to design and fabricate an architectural assembly that uses Textile as the main form generator.