Digital Ceramics: 3D Printing with Clay
This workshop will introduce the use of the Potterbot Ceramic 3d Printer in Walker Hall. Students will learn how to create a vase using Rhino, generate the g-code using Cura or Simplify3d, and print on the Potterbot. Vases produced by students during the course will be fired and ready for pick up later in the semester.
Instructor
Assistant professor Kelley Van Dyck Murphy is an architectural designer, educator, and the co-principal of Van Dyck Murphy Studio. The practice engages in built and speculative projects through experimentation with material logics, digital fabrication, and geometry. In the College of Architecture, she teaches design studios and seminar courses in representation and digital fabrication. In 2019, she was awarded research grants from both Washington University and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis for research in 3d printing in non-traditional mediums. The research focuses on assemblies that yield innovative visual or tactile effects while also engaging specific material performance. The work confronts the seemingly disparate modes of physical making and digital form-giving with the introduction of a new material system that expands the aesthetic and performative potential of aggregated enclosure assemblies. Kelley earned a Master of Architecture from Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Cross Disciplinary Connections
Workshop crosses with engineering, small scale manufacturing, and component production for art and architecture. Expanded basic knowledge of digital fabrication, 3D modeling program language, and 3d printing operations.
Takeaways
A ceramic 3D printed vase.
Next Steps
Course: Digital Ceramics, Fall 2021
Contact: Kelley Van Dyck Murphy, kelleyv@wustl.edu