In this studio, you will create tools, mechanisms, and devices to define physical form and generate unexpected and unknown outputs. You will get your hands dirty, working directly with and upon material, investigating physical form making, ranging from extruding, casting, and expanding, to twisting, breaking, and colliding. And the materials you choose will range from the mundane to the exotic, from physical materials to two-dimensional symbols and shapes. Together we will seek out new, expressive, formal lexicons, libraries, constellations, and systems which we will combine towards increased complexity. These collections will be composed of both material presence and symbol and may shift and translate back and forth between 3D form into 2D representation. There is historical precedent for this way of thinking and making. We will look at this territory in art, design, typography, and craft, as well as compelling examples in music and film. All the while, we will be asking these questions: How do we assess what we are doing at every step? How do we pinpoint new opportunities as they happen and refine our tools and methods accordingly? Is there a benefit to pushing the process towards system collapse? How can we refine our intuition to define success?

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