#1: THE 3D DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE

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1 SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems of making Professor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand Scaling up takes us on a journey through 3D printing on a number of levels; from diversity in the size of objects and structures, to the breadth and novelty of applications, and ultimately moving beyond the printed object itself to include more expansive systems of making and remaking. Calling on three speculative projects, the journey demonstrates how design as a creative discipline mediates between technology and people and vice versa - helping to identify new and inspirational applications of 3D printing technology. In response to our geographical location in the South Pacific, this includes unexpected applications for organisations not normally associated with 3D printing through to empowering local indigenous communities with new and more sustainable forms of production and construction.

2 #1: THE 3D DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF THE FUTURE // my national library VUW Summer Scholars // Ryan Achten / Dylan Hughes-Ward Research Assistant // Ruth Barnard Supervisors // Simon Fraser / Walter Langelaar / Tim Miller / Rhazes Spell National Library Liaison // Peter Rowlands / The advent of the www has seen an exponential increase in the amount of digital data in circulation. The accompanying ease of access to this information raises questions about the role of libraries and archives in the future. At the same time these very technologies and infrastructures provide exciting opportunities to reinvent and reinvigorate libraries. In particular, disruptive technologies like 3D printing offer special opportunities to transform libraries from repositories into creative spaces and thereby expand the National Library of New Zealand s mandate to collect, connect, and co-create knowledge in powerful new ways. Anticipating this potential, My National Library seeks to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in making this shift.

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6 #2: RENEWING MATERIALS // 3D printing and distributed recycling in the Pacific Master of Design Innovation Graduate // Lionel Taito-Matamua VUW Faculty // Jeongbin OK / Simon Fraser Looking beyond our national frontiers, we explore the serious issue of plastic waste in the Pacific. Using Samoa as a case study, we suggest that distributed recycling combined with 3D printing offers an opportunity to repurpose and add new value to this difficult waste stream. It also offers potential to engage diverse local communities in Samoa by combining notions of participatory design, makerspaces and online communities with traditional Samoan social concepts such as Fa a Samoa, or the Samoan way and sense of community in the pursuit of workable, economically viable, socially empowering and sustainable systems for repurposing and upcycling plastic waste; printed out in the form of useful and culturally meaningful 3D printed objects, artefacts and products.

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8 SAMOAN ARTIST NAOMI APELU // Image courtesy of Tiapapata Art Centre RECYCLEBOT v1.0 // The advent of a $750 kit printer from Makerbot in 2009 signalled the possibility of a made@home revolution. Students at Victoria University of Wellington responded with a recycled@home scenario and the resulting Recyclebot v1.0

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10 OPEN SOURCE RECYCLING LAB // filabot reclaimer and filabot original

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13 Building upon the outcome and with a view towards implementation, Creative Pathways, an educational initiative aimed at propagating 3D printing as an experiential learning facilitator in science curricula is being piloted in local schools with high Māori/Pacific attendance in the Wellington region.

14 #3: LOCALISED PRODUCTION // a collaborative indigenous domain based research lab All work attributed to // Ngāi Tāmanuhiri / Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand / SITUA: Founder Derek Kawiti / Marc Aurel Schnabel / James Durcan The use of computational formats and digital tools including machine fabrication by indigenous people worldwide to augment traditional practices and material culture is becoming more and more commonplace. However within the practice of architecture while there are indigenous architectural practitioners utilizing digital tools, it is unclear as to whether there is motivation to implement traditional indigenous knowledge in conjunction with these computational instruments and methodologies. This speculative project explores how the tools might be used to investigate the potential for indigenous development, cultural empowerment and innovation. It is part of a collaborative domain based research laboratory between and Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and SITUA (Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance). SITUA partners with Māori iwi (tribes) and enables projects within iwi domains, using both Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and new technologies. In this case, in the design and prototyping of a 3D printed manuhiri whare a pavilion for visitors on their Muriwai Marae (meeting place). SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

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16 //INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS LANDSCAPE / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

17 //INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

18 //INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS LANDSCAPE/ NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE IMAGES OF DOMAIN BASE GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION IMAGES OF MATERIALS FROM DOMAIN IMAGES OF CULTURAL PARAMETERS SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

19 //INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

20 //INDIGENOUS MATERIAL DOMAINS LOCATION / NGAI TAMANUHIRI / MATERIALS / CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

21 NGĀI TĀMANUHIRI MANUHIRI WHARE // a pavilion for visitors on Muriwai Marae SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

22 //DELTA STYLE THREE ARM CLAY EXTRUSION PRINTER /Iteration No.1 /Iteration No.2 SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

23 //PRINTING AND CLAY PROCESSING [ F I R I N G ] SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

24 //DIGITAL MODELLING AND PARAMETRIC DESIGN SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

25 //1:20 SCALE PROTOTYPE SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

26 //ASSEMBLY//pacific OF INDIVIDUAL environscomponents CBIM/ BIM SITUA // Site of Indigenous Technologies Understanding Alliance

27 SCALING UP // design inspired applications of 3D printing and systems of making Professor Simon Fraser // Faculty of Architecture and Design / Victoria University of Wellington / New Zealand

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