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Workpoint 1.0 is Underway!

This May, the Research+Design team at Ziger/Snead, along with faculty member Leah Brown, has been hard at work with about 20 middle school students from the Baltimore Design School collaborating on the inaugural Workpoint project, a hands-on learning opportunity to create an art installation.

For this year’s project, the students were asked to consider the relationship between the “part” and the “whole” in a participatory design and assembly process to create a complex sculpture of repetitive elements.  The Research+Design team selected beautiful striped paper straws from Kikkerland Design as a material for three-dimensional design exploration.  The straws come in three different colors (red, blue, and gray), are printed with soy-based ink, and are both biodegradable and compostable.

Through three different work sessions, students were asked to reimagine the straws as a modular...

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May 21st, 2013 at 3:51 PM. Posted in Architecture. 0 Comments. Share this post.