thariq [at] mit.edu

MIT Media Lab, Viral Communications

Expertise

★★☆☆ Fabrication & Craft
★★★☆ Design
★★★☆ Electronics
★★★★ Programming
★☆☆☆ Biology
★☆☆☆ Chemistry

Wellesley College, senior, CS&Math ; Media lab Responsive Environment UROP

Expertise

★★☆☆  Fabrication & Craft
★★☆☆  Design
★☆☆☆   Electronics
★★★☆  Programming
★☆☆☆  Biology
★☆☆☆  Chemistry
★★★☆  Visualization

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
I’ve designed an interactive exhibition for kids, on the sustainable construction techniques built by insect architects.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
Vaccuformed plastic packaging for electronics due to single function of protecting contents.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Develop and cultivate ideas for thesis work; make new friends; learn about tangible media practices

How can you contribute to the class?
I bring a considerable experience in various 3d modeling, visualization and fabrication. I also love brainstorming and developing ideas so I’d love to deep dive into discussions on overlapping interests if dynamics permit.

inamura@mit.edu
www.chikara-inamura.com
www.zha-code-education.org
MIT Media Lab / Mediated Matter Group

Expertise

★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★  Design
★★★  Electronics
★★★  Programming
★☆☆  Biology
★☆☆  Chemistry

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?

Co-founded ZHA-CODE-EDU, an educational worldwide NPO for designers, coders, and makers of all age to get together and have fun building:

www.zha-code-education.org

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?

A soldering iron tip that is bigger than the microchip.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?

Foundation theory and practice to build playful objects at the intersection between physical and digital world.

How can you contribute to the class?

I’m an architect by trade, maker at heart, and programmer in brain. I have 10 years of experience in design, engineering, and building complex buildings across the world. Happy to share my experience in virtually all kinds of 3D software (Rhinoceros, Maya, CATIA) and scripting (GH, Mel, CATVBA).

Info

ahuang27@mit.edu

Mechanical Engineering + Product Design and Development

Undergrad 2015

http://behance.net/alicelihuang

Expertise

★★★☆   Fabrication & Craft
★★★☆   Design
★★☆☆   Electronics
★☆☆☆    Programming
★☆☆☆   Biology
★☆☆☆   Chemistry

What’s the favorite thing you’ve made?

The Printer Discourse – a public art project that collected responses to personal prompts and displayed them using thermal printers mounted on the second floor of the State Center. Each thermal printer had a roll of receipt paper that collected answers from one prompt and grew longer as more people responded to the questions.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?

The color printer in the student center. It’s inexplicably slow for a super mundane task and it’s always filled with paper jams! Because it’s the only free color printer on campus, there’s always a line or it’s in use.

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?

I hope to understand products from a different viewpoint. I love making things work and want to make sure that it interacts with users with intention.

Info

mdsingh@gsd,harvard.edu

http://mdsingh.wix.com/malikasinghportfolio

Harvard Graduate School of Design- Masters in Design Studies-Technology and Material Studies

Research Assistant for ALIVE & WYSS Institute.

Expertise

★★★★  Fabrication & Craft
★★★★  Design
★★     Electronics
★★     Programming
–           Biology
–           Chemistry

What’s your favorite thing you’ve made?
I love building things! I have made many models for school, explored materials for research, designed interactive installations and most of all make personalized gifts for friends. The driving force that pushed me to pursue masters in United states was its state of the art Fabrication Lab which is not at my disposal back home.

This being said, my absolute favorite projects include Opti-Con and The Gaze

Opti-Con: Explored optical Fibers in Concrete to make everyday mundane walls interesting and Fun! It created an interesting interaction between the interior and exterior spaces and at the same time was placed in the wall in a way to collect sunlight and throw it into internal dark spaces. This project exploited materials to create an effect which would otherwise be only possible using high-tech electronics.

The Gaze : This is a Screen unlike the one mentioned above explored modern materials and technologies. Using smart film, Arduino, processing and projections a pavilion was designed for the city of Guangzhou, China. This Pavilion allowed people to experience the city from one of the main vantages through various filters. Working with Smart film opening my mind to so many other applications and possibilities, of how not only design but also experiences of people can be augmented.

What’s the most frustrating object you’ve used?
One of the frustrating object in my life are heels and I love heels but since they get very painful I cannot wear them for more than 2-3 hours and after these hours I begin to love flat footwear. Hope both of these were designed to be one and were just a click of a button away!

Also Wires!

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Having basic know-how of a few interactive devices and experiencing some of the projects done under Tangible Group I am certain that there is a lot of similar interests and a huge learning opportunity for me. I hope to not only gain the skill sets to create these type of projects myself, but I am also very passionate to understand the logic and creative thinking behind them.

How can you contribute to the class?
Since design and creativity is a two way exchange there are a few projects, ideas and skill sets that I would like to share with the group as well. Coming from a design background there is fresh and different outlook that I can bring to class, which would not only foster many discussions but would also result in a healthy exchange of ideas.I bring a considerable experience in mustard-making and can teach others in my group about the fascinating and nuanced intersection of human-computer interaction and food!!

What do you personally hope to get out of this class?
Develop and cultivate ideas for thesis work; make new friends; learn about tangible media practices

How can you contribute to the class?
I bring a considerable experience in various 3d modeling, visualization and fabrication. I also love brainstorming and developing ideas so I’d love to deep dive into discussions on overlapping interests if dynamics permit.