Craft @ Large

...is an Intergenerational, Intercultural Hackerspace in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH

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This past Saturday on October 6th, a group of Cornell Tech students who have been working with Niti Parikh in MakerLAB over a past couple of weeks took 'Drawing Arms' for a participatory Art experiment! These arms were inspired from an old tool called 'Pantogrph' which was used for copying a drawing or plan on a different scale by a system of hinged rods. About 3 different Arms with interchangeable colored markers  at varying heights were installed on 6'x16' plywood. 100+ participants of varying ages interacted with 'Drawing Arms' over a period of 5 hours doodling with over 1000+ strokes. It will be  on display just south of campus in the east lawns of  South Point Park for 3 more weeks! 

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This past spring  in MakerLAB @ CORNELL TECH, 6 senior community members were paired up with 6 Cornell Tech graduate students and 6 Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical Translational Science Center (WCM CTSC) students to work together to design and create a real­ world product that could address a challenge posted by the senior community using 3D printing technology.

Read extended abstract  here which was presented at at the ‘International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces [ISAM 2018]

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Custom Gift-Summer Project

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In conversation with Mark Frauenfelder at ILR School, @cornelluniversity

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Making with K-5 students @ PS/IS 217 , NY

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Weekend treat and a great way to gear up for the week of work. 

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3d print that.

Once in a while kneeling down on the floor, hand twisting 40′ long packaging paper which came in your amazon box is what I like to do in the LAB!

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Always a treat to see creativity under MAKE umbrella on the grounds of Maker Faire. This time in this city of NY, which we call home now!

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My first MakerBot extruder disassembly and assembly to successfully 3d-print version 1 of Cornell Tech ‘Twisted T’

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Change is not always an identifiable contrast.

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Starting a discussion in Residential Design. #personalized #visual listening

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Recess on Fridays at Rosa Parks Elementary School, Berkeley CA

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‘Value Wall’ design & construction for Captricity’s HQ office in Downtown Oakland. 

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There is so much to take in for a designer from any environment no matter what part of the world! Although I still find India my best source of inspiration. Complexity and simplicity can coexist with layers of history and richness of materials. 

Looking forward to 2015!

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