Zach Seibold

Material Systems: Digital Design + Fabrication provides a contextual understanding of the role that material systems and digital fabrication play in the design and allied professions, with a focus on developing a deep understanding of the connections between digital workflows that link design and making, through hands-on visceral connection to materials and tools. Given the remote nature of the Fall 2020 semester, the industrial machines of the school fabrication lab were substituted with a low-cost, modular, at-home fabrication kit developed by the instructors and distributed to students across the globe. The kit provided students with a numerically-controlled 3-axis armature that each could customize for a novel material process of their choosing, including automated paper folding, incremental forming, moduluar mold production, and the additive manufacturing of paper pulp, wax, concrete, and plaster. Student work produced as part of a course at the Harvard GSD developed + taught by Zach Seibold + Nathan King

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