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Title

 Designing Green Takes an Endless Design Slant

Display Date

 3/20/2012

Expiration Date

 10/20/2012

Discipline

 CADC

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​The 10th annual Designing Green, the Department of Industrial+Graphic Design’s annual student sustainable design competition, took place on March 1 and 2 at Wallace Hall. Sponsored by the student chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of American (IDSA), the competition historically involves student teams designing a chair out of recycled or recyclable materials in a 24-hour period. This year’s competition took a different slant.

Götz Unger, Director of the Industrial Design Program at Philadelphia University, opened the events with a talk about ergonomic and sustainable chair design. Then Dirk vander Kooij, a Dutch designer, spoke via Skype about a repurposed industrial robot he created that will “print” furniture from recycled plastic refrigerator components.  As Jerrod Windham, Designing Green faculty advisor described it, “It’s a 3-D printer on steroids.” It excretes an endless stream of recycled polystyrene, and the finished piece of furniture also can be endlessly recycled.

And so the “Endless Design” competition was on. Twenty-four teams of students had 24-hours to design a chair for Vander Kooji’s machine to print. The winning team will see their chair actually produced by Vander Kooij. Vander Kooij and the Industrial Design Advisory Council judged the teams’ designs from their 3-D posters created in CAD or Rhino. The judging criteria included aesthetics, perceived comfort, and efficient use of material (minimal material with maximum results).

Congratulations to Team 14 on their winning design. Team 14 members include Reuben Lacy, Ali Kim, and Joshua Hanson.

To read about Vander Kooij’s “endless design” process, go to: http://www.dirkvanderkooij.nl/en/content/endless-process

To read the O-A News story about the Designing Green competition, go to:

http://www2.oanow.com/news/2012/mar/02/auburn-u-students-create-sustainable-chair-designs-ar-3339856/


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