Border as Urbanism: Redrawing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea
by Dongsei Kim (MDes ’12) Borders are everywhere and exist at every level of our…
by Dongsei Kim (MDes ’12) Borders are everywhere and exist at every level of our…
by Jutta Friedrichs (MDes ’12) The Inconspicuous Life of Walls amplifies the natural and sublime…
by Melissa Kit Chow (MDes ’12) and Helena Slosar (MDes ’12) Spatio-phenomenal intervention (SPI) is…
by Daekwon Park (MDes ’12) This thesis investigates the design process of biologically-inspired smart building…
by Aviva Rubin (MDes ’12) This thesis proposes a re-conceptualization of the moment of dissent…
by Aneesha Dharwadker (MDes ’12) There is a wall in Delhi being swallowed by architecture.
Daniel Ibañez (MDesS ‘12, DDesS candidate) and Fadi Masoud (MLA II ' 12) have been accepted to present their paper, Topo-logics in the Mediterranean Basin: Exploring potentials of topography as infrastructure and resource for new urban metabolisms, at the Med.Net.EU conference in Italy.
Dongsei Kim (MDesS '12) in Urbanism, Landscape, Ecology, has won an Honorable Mention in the National Geographic Award in Mapping for "The Demilitarized Zone: Redrawing the 151 mile border between North and South Korea."
MDesS students swept the awards for academic achievement during commencement exercises on May 24, 2012.
The Design Robotics Group has been prominently featured in the reports from Smartgeometry 2012 at RPI in Troy, New York. The group was selected to lead a cluster on Ceramics 2.0, an outgrowth of research in the course Material Processes and Systems: CeramicsLAB. The theme of this year's conference was "Material Intensities -Simulation, Energy, Environment," and its first day was structured in clusters to promote collaborative work across multiple disciplines, rather than one-directional information. Ceramics 2.0 was one of the "material research" clusters, creating custom bricks with a robot.