Mtrl, an initiative of ASM International (the Materials Information Society), will be hosting design workshops in Boston and Chicago later this month:
June 15-16, 2006
Museum of Science at Science Park, Boston
Materials Memories (Chris Lefteri)
What's your favorite material memory? Mom's Formica kitchen? The suede of Action Man's head? Bring in your favorite material memory and we'll use your own perceptions as part of a cross-disciplinary project to help you look at the potential for materials in a new way.
June 22-23, 2006
Institute of Design - Illinois Institute of Technology
Materialization
Animation: Avoiding the stigma of cheap and broken products (Crispin Hales PhD); Inspiration: Creating new materials as well as great design (Charlie Kuehmann); Solidification: Creating "Cloud Gate." (Sam Taff); Illumination: Bridging the Gap=Design and Engineering (Fred "MurDoc" Schmidt).
All the info you need here.
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