DEA 6210

Architectural Robotics

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Embedding robotics into the fabric of architecture fosters a more interactive and potentially more intimate relationship between the built environment and us, and represents a new frontier for design, computing, and psychology. Part-seminar, part-lab, this course considers the design, technical, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment priority given to: DEA and MAE students.

Distribution Category (HA-HE, D-HE, KCM-HE, LAD-HE, SBA-HE)

• To understand the design, technological, social, ecological, and ethical challenges and opportunities of architectural robotics, and demonstrate this understanding in written form and presentations.
• To conceptualize and evaluate design alternatives responsive to the challenges and opportunities of an ecosystem that is biological, artificial, and increasingly digital, using a variety of design strategies.
• To demonstrate an ability to iterate, in design prototypes, an architectural robotic artifact from furniture to the metropolis in scale.
• To demonstrate the ability to communicate (through the vehicle of, e.g., a video) the motivations for, iterative development of, and expected use of the architectural robotic artifact prototyped, as well as assess its shortcomings.

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