Things Fall Together - A Guide to the New Materials Revolution

Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.

About the author

Skylar Tibbits

Summary

"A short, provocative manifesto for the programmable materials revolution from the visionary founder of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab"--

Additional text

"Tibbits' book is a compact, highly readable explanation of the work carried out at the Self-Assembly Lab and some of the other like-minded labs and institutions around the world."---John Hill, A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Product details

• Authors: Skylar Tibbits, Tibbits Skylar
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.06.2021
• EAN: 9780691170336
• ISBN: 978-0-691-17033-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Product Design, popular science, SCIENCE / General, DESIGN / Product, DESIGN / Industrial, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Industrial / commercial art & design, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Materials science, Engineering: general, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / General