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Week 10

Assignments

  • [ ] Task 1: Create a Mold
  • [ ] Task 2: Pour cooked biomaterial into Mold

Process

  • I created a simple mold for a long, thing piece of bioplastic to engrave. I made it with cut wood, parchment paper and some clamps.
  • I cooked the biomaterial using a hot plate. I created a gelatin bioplastic since I wanted a rigid, safe to engrave material.
  • I poured slowly to reduce bubbling but they were still hard to avoid, so some i had to manually get rid of some of them. -

Reflection

-Have you considered sustainable practices in your teaching in the pasts? How? What aspects do you think should be improved in your own teaching environment? We tried to add sustainability learning goals to many of our programs, though it isn’t always a main priority of the lessons. We teach about how technology can support sustainble production, but many times it doesn’t go beyond theory to practice.

-How Digital Fabrication might support sustainable practices? When using Digital Fabrication what actions you can take to support sustainable practices. There’s been a big growth of sustainable materials that are attainable and economical in many areas of Digital Fabrication. Sourcing these materials, and using proper practices with them, can help makerspaces become more sustaibility inclined. Knowing the processes is important, since material that is supposed to be sustainable like PLA needs to be send to the proper facilities, for example.

-How could you integrate both culturally reflective learning and digital fabrication in your environment? Could you come up with some project ideas using digital fabrication in which cultural diversity of students is highlighted? I work in very diverse and creative programs in which students can express themselves and the culture they come from. Sometimes, we try to be a bit more direct in ways of expressions, such as identifying landmarks of their own cities and understanding the urban planning around their home and how it affects the culture of the people living there.

Tools

  • Wood
  • Clamps
  • Hot Plate