Otis Week 8   What are the repercussions of society’s quest for the elimination of entropy? How do they extend to 3D printing? The first image here is a picture of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building. Designed by Marcel Breuer, the brutalist aesthetic fits the description of an orderly entity with no room for entropy […]

There was much less time spent in the CST labs this week as compared to in the past, but even with that limitation, I felt that the level of discourse perhaps went beyond anything that had happened in earlier weeks. Because the time was devoted entirely to discussion, the classroom time felt much more valuable, […]

“You mean to say that you’re surprised by building stuff out of unusual materials,” – Cory Doctorow. I’ve noticed an interesting dichotomy amongst the students, which, although it has always been present, it is now making its way into the foreground much more intensely than it did before. It seems as if there is a split […]

Where is the intersection between entropy and order, and how does this affect creativity? In my last version of this project, I referenced the essay Art, Thefore Entropy by Michael France and Alan Hénaut. The essay’s thesis was that a degree of chaos is necessary for the birth of good art, and from that it […]