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SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems

of makingProfessor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand

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Scaling up takes us on a journey through 3D printing on a number of levels; from diversity in the size of objects and

structures, to the breadth and novelty of applications, and ultimately moving beyond the printed object itself to

include more expansive systems of making and remaking. Calling on three speculative projects, the journey

demonstrates how design as a creative discipline mediates between technology and people and vice versa - helping to

identify new and inspirational applications of 3D printing technology. In response to our geographical location in

the South Pacific, this includes unexpected applications for organisations not normally associated with 3D printing

through to empowering local indigenous communities with new and more sustainable forms of production and

construction.

#1: THE 3D DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE // my national libraryVUW Summer Scholars // Ryan Achten / Dylan Hughes-Ward

Research Assistant // Ruth Barnard

Supervisors // Simon Fraser / Walter Langelaar / Tim Miller / Rhazes Spell

National Library Liaison // Peter Rowlands /

https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-digital-archive-of-the-future

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The advent of the www has seen an exponential increase in the amount of digital data in circulation. The accompanying

ease of access to this information raises questions about the role of libraries and archives in the future. At the

same time these very technologies and infrastructures provide exciting opportunities to reinvent and reinvigorate

libraries. In particular, disruptive technologies like 3D printing offer special opportunities to transform libraries

from repositories into creative spaces and thereby expand the National Library of New Zealand’s mandate to ‘collect,

connect, and co-create knowledge’ in powerful new ways. Anticipating this potential, My National Library seeks to

demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in making this shift.

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https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-digital-archive-of-the-future

#2: RENEWING MATERIALS // 3D printing and distributed recycling

in the PacificMaster of Design Innovation Graduate // Lionel Taito-Matamua

VUW Faculty // Jeongbin OK / Simon Fraser

http://unmakingwaste2015.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/UMW_Session_9.pdf

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Looking beyond our national frontiers, we explore the serious issue of plastic waste in the Pacific. Using Samoa as a

case study, we suggest that distributed recycling combined with 3D printing offers an opportunity to repurpose and

add new value to this difficult waste stream. It also offers potential to engage diverse local communities in Samoa

by combining notions of participatory design, makerspaces and online communities with traditional Samoan social

concepts such as ‘Fa’a Samoa’, or ‘the Samoan way’ and sense of community – in the pursuit of workable, economically

viable, socially empowering and sustainable systems for repurposing and upcycling plastic waste; printed out in the

form of useful and culturally meaningful 3D printed objects, artefacts and products.

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// LIONEL TAITO-MATAMUA

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RECYCLEBOT v1.0 // The advent of a $750 kit printer from Makerbot in 2009 signalled the possibility

of a made@home revolution. Students at Victoria University of Wellington responded with a

recycled@home scenario and the resulting Recyclebot v1.0

SAMOAN ARTIST NAOMI APELU // Image courtesy of

Tiapapata Art Centre

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‘OPEN SOURCE’ RECYCLING LAB // filabot reclaimer and filabot original©

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http://www.creative-pathways.com/ Building upon the outcome and with a view towards implementation, Creative Pathways, an educational

initiative aimed at propagating 3D printing as an experiential learning facilitator in science curricula is being piloted in local

schools with high Māori/Pacific attendance in the Wellington region.

SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

The use of computational formats and digital tools including machine fabrication by indigenous people worldwide to

augment traditional practices and material culture is becoming more and more commonplace. However within the practice

of architecture while there are indigenous architectural practitioners utilizing digital tools, it is unclear as to

whether there is motivation to implement traditional indigenous knowledge in conjunction with these computational

instruments and methodologies. This speculative project explores how the tools might be used to investigate the

potential for indigenous development, cultural empowerment and innovation. It is part of a collaborative ‘domain

based’ research laboratory between and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and SITUA (Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding

Alliance). SITUA partners with Māori iwi (tribes) and enables projects within iwi domains, using both Mātauranga

Māori (Māori knowledge) and new technologies. In this case, in the design and prototyping of a 3D printed manuhiri

whare — a pavilion for visitors on their Muriwai Marae (meeting place).

#3: LOCALISED PRODUCTION // a collaborative indigenous domain based

research labAll work attributed to // Ngāi Tāmanuhiri / Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand / SITUA: Founder Derek Kawiti /

Marc Aurel Schnabel / James Durcan

http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/caadria2016_063.pdf

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//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS

LANDSCAPE / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS

LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

IMAGES OF DOMAIN BASE

GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION

IMAGES OF MATERIALS

FROM DOMAINIMAGES OF CULTURAL PARAMETERS

//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS

LANDSCAPE/ NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS

LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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//INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS

LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

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NGĀI TĀMANUHIRI MANUHIRI WHARE // a pavilion for visitors on Muriwai Marae

//DELTA STYLE THREE ARM CLAY EXTRUSION PRINTER

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/Iteration No.2

/Iteration No.1

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[ F I R I N G ]

//PRINTING AND CLAY PROCESSING

//DIGITAL MODELLING AND PARAMETRIC DESIGN

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//1:20 SCALE PROTOTYPE

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//pacific environs

CBIM/ BIM

//ASSEMBLY OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS

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SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems

of makingProfessor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand

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