MAPPING TERRITORY

Digital communications enables cheap long-distance connections and digital computation enables cheap, universal and efficient computers.

Digital fabrication enables cheap, efficient and universal fabrication.

Building digitally will reduce the complexity of the assembling and can produce a wider variety of objects for a smaller cost.

George A. Popescu M.Sc

Thesis Supervisor: Professor Neil Gershenfeld

Title: MIT Media Laboratory

New digital fabrication technologies have completely changed how prototypes and unique parts are made, yet they have not met expectation to enable low cost, small scale manufacturing.

The research question :

Can we use digital fabrication methods to create constructive, human scale, affordable products?

Researched	Not Researched
Trend analysis	Possible Constructive Materials
Existing digital fabrication methods	Workshops tour
Welding technologies	Fabrication methods ideation
Accessible components analysis	Software and control systems
Prosumers	Coreless structures
Minimal building block	Economic implications
	Use cases analysis