This event will be conducted in-person in Room 315F and through Zoom.

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here.
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Skylar will present work from MIT's Self-Assembly Lab that spans from materials development to new fabrication approaches and self-organizing construction systems. This lecture is concurrent with an exhibition of the Lab's work in the Third Floor Hallway Gallery. 

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Julian Palacio.

Skylar Tibbits is a designer and computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly and programmable materials within the built environment. Tibbits is the founder and co-director of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, and Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture. He is also the director of the undergraduate Design programs in the Department of Architecture.

Tibbits has a professional degree in architecture and a minor in experimental computation from Philadelphia University, and a masters in design computation and masters computer science from MIT. He has worked at a number of design offices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture and Point b Design.

He has designed and built large-scale installations and exhibited in galleries around the world, including the MoMA, Centre Pompidou, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and various others. He is the author of - Things Fall Together: A Guide to the New Materials Revolution (Princeton University Press 2021), Self-Assembly Lab: Experiments in Programming Matter (Routledge, 2016), Active Matter (MIT Press, 2017), co-editor of Being Material (MIT Press 2019) and the Editor-In-Chief of the journal 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.