From minor to majorly impressive Advanced Prototyping Minor Class of 2020-2021

While the last year has shown us just how much can be achieved virtually, the ability to translate an idea into a tangible prototype remains an important design competency.  The students of the Advanced Prototyping Minor have been showing us how it’s done. During the second part of the minor, students worked in groups to create and prototype new digital fabrication techniques and emerging materials. Finally, they created movies showcasing their process and rather impressive results.

Over the course of the last semester students of the Advanced Prototyping minor have been hard at work, designing, developing, validating and finessing their prototypes, employing new advanced manufacturing techniques and emerging material applications. The intrinsic potential of the digital techniques employed by the students allowed them to overcome the difficulties of working at a distance, delivering astonishing results.

Course coordinators Willemijn Elkhuizen and Sander Minnoye said: “It was great to see the effort students put into these projects, leading to such advanced prototypes and happy clients.” 

Corona regulations didn’t allow for a physical exhibition with the final full-scale prototypes, so an online event, featuring presentations and live demos of the seven projects took its place. The results were compiled into a video. Be bewildered by the amazing results