Henry Skupniewicz – www.henryskup.com
MIT Architecture: Design Computation Group, Design Computation Group/Mediated Matter / BSA-Comp.

Experience
I have extensive experience in art, architecture, and design by being an architecture student and constant thinker about industrial design. I have a background in metal-work, stained glass, computer/graphic design, and architectural design. My time at school has taught me many fabrication skills including: CNC, laser cutter, water-jet, metal lethe, wood-working, metal work (hot and cold forming), casting, 3d printing. Over the past few years I have developed an appreciation for computer science, as well as expanded my software knowledge. I feel comfortable with: Python, Processing, Arduino, HTML, CSS, Grasshopper (for Rhino), and am learning: C#. While at school I have taken 4.500 and 4.501 (Larry Sass's fabrication courses), worked in the High-Low-Tech Lab on paper-based electronics, and now work in the Mediated Matter Lab on a low-res, super-rapid 3d printing technique. I hope that answers all your questions, email me if not!

Why
Hi! I'm Henry (the lone kid in class who wanted to become a professor) and I'm a senior within the the Design Computation Group. Though my interests are varied, they center around what I see as the opportunities for a constructive dialog between design-at-large (architecture, art, etc.) and computation-at-large (computer science, mathematics, logic, etc.). (I have been interested, for this reason, with the work of the Tangible Media Lab.) As I am in my senior year, I am in the process of beginning my thesis; luckily, I have developed an idea(one I hope and believe to be fairly robust) , and I hope that this class will help me develop this idea further as well as provide me with the proper conceptual, academic, and technological backgrounds necessary to make this thesis a success. (Very Quickly: my idea is to create an interactive tool to allow designers (as well as others)to interact with CAD software using a "cellular mass" of individual units that, through network/flock logic, can map their relative location and pass this information onto the computer. Not only would this allow for this "mass" to be digitally represented on the computer (ie. a 1:1 representation), the "mass" could pass on the spacial information to be interpreted, by the computer, in a more abstract way, yet to be thought of. Not only could this tool re-define data manipulation and human-computer-interaction, it could, with enough development, really push the boundaries between the "digital" and the "analog" by soliciting more intuitive and direct contact with the human hand.) I would be honored to join this class and learn so much form the TAs and Prof. Ishii. All the Best, Henry

Art
Architecture
Craft/Fabrication
Design
DIY Electronics
Electrical Eng.
Mech. Eng.
Programming/CS

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