Elective Seminar 2 Materials 2 - Living Materiality

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This elective seminar, ARCH 758, is offered to satisfy the Focus Area III of the Master of Science of Architecture, Computational Technologies program and Focus Area II of the Master of Science of Architecture, Health and Design program. In the two consecutive elective seminars (ARCH 757, ARCH 758) students will learn and apply computation in relation to fabrication and will analyze, research, displace and investigate new paradigms in materiality applied to architecture. Material design and research will be developed through computer simulation, optimization, testing and prototyping. This seminar will focus on innovative research on ecological materials, bio-materials, live cell materials, live cell growth and synthetic live cell 3d printing, and intelligent responsive materials. New knowledge and research will be developed and implemented through a creative applied design exercise aimed to build up specific skills but also critical positions in relation to material computation, material logic, informed material processes, and simulation applied to architecture, ecology and health. Prerequisite Course(s): Prerequisites: ARCH 757