Prototyping for the Domestic

Led by: Max Jarosz

Domestic furniture is often viewed as a massed produced commodity, which conceals the design and engineering processes inherent in its production. This course seeks to explore the process of producing furniture from engineering through fabrication to uncover opportunities in the process to experiment with novel methods of producing furniture. The course will explore topics ranging from structural computation, material properties and efficiency, fabrication processes, and design. The projects will enable students to explore a variety of fabrication methodologies ranging from traditional woodworking to CNC machining and 3D printing. Students will be encouraged to iteratively test rapid prototyping strategies to evaluate their furniture designs with a final deliverable of producing a full-scale piece of domestic furniture.