FUTURE CRAFT: BEYOND CERTAINTY AND RISK Robotics and Materiality Patricia Mato-Mora and Gary Edwards TERM 1 - Weds, AM SESSION – 0900 -1200 (BST) TERM 2 - Weds, PM SESSION – 1300-1600 (BST)

Credit: Jasmine Chung, Future Craft 2019-20 Future Craft explores the intersection of numeric and manual fabrication. Departing from David Pye's understanding of mechanised and manual fabrication as part of a continuum, mediated by tools, technique and material – this course explores the space between 'workmanship of risk' and 'workmanship of certainty' – material expression and algorithmic control. In this course, students will design and manufacture a ceramic dual-purpose building component through a hybrid approach of numeric robot control and manual fabrication. Outline content - Lectures on Architectural Ceramics and Digital Fabrication Processes for Architecture - Online workshops learning ceramic techniques, alongside robotic manufacturing with clay (additive). - Tutorials, group seminars and discussions. - Weekly evaluation and presentation of drawings, 3D models and physical prototypes. - Critical appraisal of final building element and its constructability. Outputs Participation and discussion in lectures, group sessions, and remote practical workshops. Creative application of the techniques, tools or media specific to the course. Coherence between conceptual structure and final proposition. Demonstration of technical facility to best represent considered intentions. Final composition of all produced media into a coherent body of work.

[Week 2 of Term] Week 1: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 AM Presentation: Craft and Digital Craft. Introduction to Brief and Process. Workshop: Part A: Material and scale. Subdividing suggested building elements (wall, arch, dome, column) into components. Clay idiosyncrasy during the process of 3D printing. Part B: Manipulation | industrial robots. General introduction to robotics and delivery of initial Grasshopper files. [Week 3 of Term] Week 2: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 AM Presentation: Ceramics in Architecture – additive manufacturing, ceramic components, load-bearing vs. ceramic cladding, wall thickness, internal reinforcement, shrinkage rates, durability, evaporative cooling. Workshop: Part A: Generating primary geometry for clay manufacturing. Iterations on Rhino (Record History) and Grasshopper. Part B: Digital to physical | Calibration and material considerations Developing further on week 1 including calibration techniques and considerations relating to working with clay as a material and extrusion as a process. Further development of Grasshopper scripts. [Week 4 of Term] Week 3: Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 AM Presentation: Digital Workmanship of Risk - introducing heterogeneity in digital fabrication processes. Workshop: Part A: Material consequences of robot parameters Speed, Z axis, distance between contours Part B: Tuning | Enhanced control Parsing the data from Part A into robot code. [Week 5 of Term] Week 4: Wednesday, October 28th, 2020 AM Presentation: Clay body property-altering additives. Workshop: Part A: Planning the mega-drawing across Rhino and Grasshopper Visualising 4D parametric control in 2D space of the drawing. Part B: Friction | Designer, material, tool Balancing the desires of the designer, material and tools. [Week 6 of Term: OPEN WEEK] Week 5: Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 No teaching. Students can work on their projects independently. Access to DPL / Prototyping in GE Studio (tbc). [Week 7 of Term] Week 6: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 AM Presentation: Contemporary Digital Ceramics [focus on 3D printing] Pin Up: Reviewing of last week’s work on Microsoft Teams. Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available

[Week 8 of Term] Week 7: Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 AM Presentation: Contemporary Large-Scale Ceramics Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available [Week 9 of Term] Week 8: Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 AM Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available [Week 10 of Term] Week 9: Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020 AA Media Jury Day Submission: Friday, December 11th, 2020 Allow 1 week for marking. [Week 2 of Term] Week 1: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 PM Presentation: Craft and Digital Craft. Introduction to Brief and Process. Workshop: Part A: Material and scale. Subdividing suggested building elements (wall, arch, dome, column) into components. Clay idiosyncrasy during the process of 3D printing. Part B: Manipulation | industrial robots. General introduction to robotics and delivery of initial Grasshopper files. [Week 3 of Term] Week 2: Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 PM Presentation: Ceramics in Architecture – additive manufacturing, ceramic components, load-bearing vs. ceramic cladding, wall thickness, internal reinforcement, shrinkage rates, durability, evaporative cooling. Workshop: Part A: Generating primary geometry for clay manufacturing. Iterations on Rhino (Record History) and Grasshopper. Part B: Digital to physical | Calibration and material considerations Developing further on week 1 including calibration techniques and considerations relating to the working with clay as a material and extrusion as a process. Further development of Grasshopper scripts. [Week 4 of Term] Week 3: Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 PM Presentation: Digital Workmanship of Risk - introducing heterogeneity in digital fabrication processes. Workshop: Part A: Material consequences of robot parameters Speed, Z axis, distance between contours Part B: Tuning | Enhanced control Parsing the data from Part A into robot code. [Week 5 of Term] Week 4: Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 PM Presentation: Clay body property-altering additives. Workshop: Part A: Planning the mega-drawing across Rhino and Grasshopper

Visualising 4D parametric control in 2D space of the drawing. Part B: Friction | Designer, material, tool Balancing the desires of the designer, material and tools. Week 5: Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 No teaching. Students can work on their projects independently. Access to DPL / Prototyping in GE Studio (tbc). [Week 6 of Term: OPEN WEEK] [Week 7 of Term] Week 6: Wednesday, February 24th, 2021 PM Presentation: Contemporary Digital Ceramics [focus on 3D printing] Pin Up: Reviewing of last week’s work on Microsoft Teams. Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available [Week 8 of Term] Week 7: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021 PM Presentation: Contemporary Large-Scale Ceramics Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available [Week 9 of Term] Week 8: Wednesday, March 10th, 2021 PM Prototyping and/or Design Tutorials: With Gary or Patricia [mandatory] Slots to be made available [Week 10 of Term] Week 9: Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 AA Media Jury Day Submission Requirements 1 A0 mega-drawing of the building component [as part of a whole and as a self-standing sculptural object], including iterations 1 A3 booklet documenting the process, including, design concept, 3D model iterations, Grasshopper definitions, photographs of physical model iterations, process photographs and photographs of final component /vase. Students may include interactive content in the A3 booklet, such as videos & gifs. NB: The course will be assessed based on the student's ability to create the aforementioned materials, as well as a fully-functioning definition that can simulate the robotic fabrication process. Bibliography Online: Carpo, Mario. The Alphabet and the Algorithm. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2011. Harrow, Del & Brayman, Andy. “Towards an Aesthetic of Digital Clay”, published by Studio Potter. Available at: http://www.delharrow.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Towards-an-Aesthetic-of-Digital-Clay-_-Studio-Potter.pdf Pallasmaa, Juhani. The Eyes of the Skin. Chichester: John Wiley and Sons. Willman, Jan (Ed.). Robotic Fabrication in Architecture, Art and Design 2018. Cham: Springer, 2019.

Not Online Adamson, Glenn. Thinking through Craft. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2007. Callicott, N, The Pursuit Of Novelty - Computer Aided Manufacturing In Architecture. Oxford : Architectural Press, 2001 Connell, Jo. Colouring Clay. London: A&C Black, 2007. French, Neal (1997). “CAD CAM and the British Tableware Industry”, in Dormer, Peter (Ed.) The Culture of Craft. Manchester University Press. Ingold, Tim. Making. Oxon (Canada) and New York (USA): Routledge, 2013. Lynn, Greg (Ed.). Archaeology of the Digital. Montreal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; Berlin: Sternberg Press. Perryman, Jane. Naked Clay: Ceramics without Glaze. London: A&C Black, 2004. Pye, David. The Nature and Art of Workmanship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Standen, Kathleen. Additions to Clay Bodies. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. Tedeschi, Arturo. AAD Algorithms-Aided Design: Parametric Strategies using Grasshopper. Napoli: Edizioni Le Penseur, 2014. Gary Edwards is a Chartered Architect, researcher and computational designer. Having studied at the Bartlett (Unit 23) he is no stranger to analogue and robotic methods of fabrication. He works closely with Free and Open Source communities developing bespoke design tools that bridge digital and physical realms. He worked a number of years at the Global Engineering firm Arup where he was Software and Tools Leader for architecture. He has taught at the Bartlett and AA Hooke Park as well as in industry. He currently runs his own consultancy and design practise.

Patricia Mato-Mora studied architecture at the Architectural Association, where she was spun off into the world of digital fabrication, craftsmanship, reverse engineering and digitally-mediated processes. She then studied materials at the Royal College of Art, and now works alongside artists and architecture practices to realise large-scale projects employing various craftsmanship methods, taking material idiosyncrasy as a point of departure. She is also a First Year Studio Tutor, an Environmental and Technical Studies Tutor specialising in Ceramics, and directs the AA Visiting School in the Sonora Desert.