Materiality Workshop

ASM/Mtrl presents a two-day workshop on Materials for Designers:

Materiality: How Metals and Polymers Influence Our Senses and Inspire Our Designs.

This series of highly immersive workshops will provide you the knowledge and insight necessary to visualize the ways in which the latest materials and fabrication processes can influence design. Materials selection behavior for aesthetics, consumer acceptance, durability, cost, fabrication, compatibility and workability will all be explored.

Core knowledge for industrial design. At the intersection of art, science, engineering and industry, materials have the capacity to transcend function, becoming touchstones of widely shared human experience that live forever.
Broaden your design vocabulary with greater command of the metals and polymers that ultimately bring designs to life.

Key ingredients to a successful design include choosing the right materials and processing them to produce products your customers’ desire. This seminar will provide you with knowledge and tools to combine the art and science of materials selection for your designs. Be a source of knowledge for your clients, engineering staff and production houses by understanding and designing sharply with metals & polymers.

The instructor Dr. Kuhn is currently director of R&D for The Ex One Company, with responsibility for developing and implementing rapid manufacturing and rapid tooling technologies. A Fellow of ASM International, the world’s leading society for materials science and engineering, Dr. Kuhn understands how materials and processes influence design. At Drexel University and the University of Pittsburgh, he developed courses in powder metallurgy, engineering design, failure analysis and mechanical metallurgy – four specialties of great interest to design professionals.

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