Hacking Manufacturing

  • Image Courtesy of the Artists.
  • Image Courtesy of the Artists.
  • Image Courtesy of the Artists.

Hacking Manufacturing explored the idea of “research in residence” concept in the context of manufacturing in Shenzhen, where the most concentrated factories across industry in the world are located. By bringing researchers to the factory floor for four weeks, Hacking Manufacturing experimented with methods to fuse the lab and factory as a future venue for innovation examining the role of intangible media and responsive environments.

Hacking Manufacturing explored the idea of “research in residence” concept in the context of manufacturing in Shenzhen, where the most concentrated factories across industry in the world are located. By bringing researchers to the factory floor for four weeks, Hacking Manufacturing experimented with methods to fuse the lab and factory as a future venue for innovation examining the role of intangible media and responsive environments.

Milestone

2017.Q2
Project awarded Design Trust Feature Grant

2017.08
The team presented their project at the “Design Trust Public Lecture 2017” at Asia Society, Hong Kong

2017.08
The team presented their project in Shenzhen

2018.09
The team conducts “MIT Instruction: Chibitronics Workshop” to share this new way of learning circuits and creating artwork at Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen

2018.01
The team shares the project at Design Society, Shenzhen

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2017
Grantee: Jifei Ou, Jie Qi and Artem Dementyev
Organisation: MIT Media Lab

Jifei Ou is a designer, researcher and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, where he focuses on designing and fabricating transformable materials across scales (from μm to m). Jie Qi is an engineer, designer and entrepreneur; and co-founder of Chibitronics, which produces friendly toolkits for learning and making electronics using paper craft. She holds a PhD from the MIT Media Lab and a BS in mechanical engineering from Columbia University. Artem Dementyev is a PhD student in the Responsive Environments Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research has been presented at various conferences such as CHI, UIST and Ubicomp.

Project Result:

Towards the end of the workshop, 8 projects were generated among 10 researchers. Three projects involved collaborations between 2 or 3 people, and the rest were individual projects. They range from art to sensors, and textiles to robotics.