DumoLab*

And find us on Instagram! @dumolab

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:46:44 +0200

And find us on Instagram! @dumolab

Continue following our Academic Research work here! https://www.design.upenn.edu/dumolab

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 20:44:05 +0200

Continue following our Academic Research work here! https://www.design.upenn.edu/dumolab

Interviewed for Weitzman News UPenn

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:03:05 +0200

Interviewed for Weitzman News UPenn

Out!

Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:01:34 +0100

New publication on alternative leathers at the Silklab Tufts Biomedical...

New Position

Sun, 10 Jan 2021 00:37:35 +0100

Laia is very proud to be joining the incredible standing faculty team at Penn graduate architecture....

Awarded

Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:02:50 +0200

“Dezeen’s Sustainable Design of the Year Award” for Aguahoja1 as MM Team...

DumoLab turns 10 today ! Here is what we have been up to at MIT...

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:32:48 +0200

DumoLab turns 10 today ! Here is what we have been up to at MIT and Tufts for the past few years.

"Formalizing Infinite Properties: Beyond Functionalism in Design" #DesigningMatter

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:25:40 +0100

"Formalizing Infinite Properties: Beyond Functionalism in Design" #DesigningMatter:

Aguahoja is an exhibition by The Mediated Matter Group, MIT...

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 23:43:17 +0200

Aguahoja is an exhibition by The Mediated Matter Group, MIT Media Lab, on view at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. March - July 2018. Learn more at www.cpnas.org

DesignBoom features today our recent work on biomaterials...

Mon, 14 May 2018 16:31:05 +0200

DesignBoom features today our recent work on biomaterials fabrication @ MIT Media Lab Mediated Matter Group

Interview with Laia Mogas Soldevila | MIT | IN(3D)USTRY 2016

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 16:26:40 +0200

Interview with Laia Mogas Soldevila | MIT | IN(3D)USTRY 2016: Interviewed last year at Barcelona’s...

CLOT Magazine wrote about us and our research adventures at MIT...

Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:43:37 +0200

CLOT Magazine wrote about us and our research adventures at MIT & TUFTS!

https://www.clotmag.com/design/laia-mogas

Core77 on last Fall’s BIOFABRICATE conference and event...

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 18:51:04 +0100

Core77 on last Fall’s BIOFABRICATE conference and event - “…Laia Mogas’s talk at Biofabricate 2016 describing her research on Functional Biomaterial Architectures at MIT MediaLab MM, and at Tufts BME SilkLab”

Our Biomaterials Fab research at MIT Media Lab has been...

Wed, 26 Oct 2016 19:07:35 +0200

Our Biomaterials Fab research at MIT Media Lab has been shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival AWARDS “Experimental - Future Projects” section

Participating in “Under Pressure: Urban Housing Symposium”...

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:51:12 +0200

Participating in “Under Pressure: Urban Housing Symposium” @PennDesign next Friday, Oct. 28, 2016 - Spreading the word on novel research in Biomaterial Functional Architectures.

Laia is now an interdisciplinary researcher at the Tufts BME...

Sun, 02 Oct 2016 01:41:04 +0200

Laia is now an interdisciplinary researcher at the Tufts BME Silklab with Prof. Omenetto investigating new biomaterial functional architectures in design.

Online! Process fotos from our past 2 years of research...

Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:00:00 +0100

Online! Process fotos from our past 2 years of research @mitmedialab, Mediated Matter Group. Building sustainable bio-plastic products and inventing the Water-based Digital Fabrication Platform.
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“Inspired by aqueous material formation the Water-based Digital Fabrication Platform offers a new perspective on water-based manufacturing combining an age-old crustacean-derived material with robotic fabrication and synthetic biology to form constructs that utilize graded material properties for hydration-guided self-assembly.”
(http://goo.gl/2dQXAu)
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Research and Design by the Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab. Lead researchers include Jorge Duro-Royo, Laia Mogas-Soldevila, Daniel Lizardo and Neri Oxman (Director). Additional researchers include Markus Kayser, William Patrick, Sunanda Sharma, John Klein, Chikara Inamura and Steven Keating. The Water-based Digital Fabrication Platform development was supported in part by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA-21). Collaborators include Dr. James Weaver, Prof. Javier G. Fernandez, Prof. Katia Bertoldi, Prof. Pamela Silver, Prof. Prof. Tim Lu, Allen Chen, Stephanie Hays, Eléonore Tham, Johannes Overvelde and Dan Robertson.

Jorge presenting at ACADIA 2015 last week! “COMPUTATIONAL...

Wed, 28 Oct 2015 17:36:58 +0100

Jorge presenting at ACADIA 2015 last week! “COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGIES, Design in the Anthropocene”, University of Cincinnati, SAID, “Session 04: Biomimesis II”, showing our work @MITMediaLab - MediatedMatterGroup.
Full schedule: http://2015.acadia.org/schedule.html
Conference website: http://2015.acadia.org/index.html

Image captured by @archinate (https://goo.gl/1TRhai)

Article for Laia’s upcoming talk at IASS is out and can be read...

Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:28:31 +0200

Article for Laia’s upcoming talk at IASS is out and can be read here ! IASS 2015 Amsterdam, Digital Architecture [Arc1] Session, presenting “DESIGNING THE OCEAN PAVILION: Biomaterial Templating of Structural, Manufacturing and Environmental Performance”, work @mitmedialab, MediatedMatterGroup.

New Materials Research Report

Tue, 21 Jul 2015 23:20:48 +0200

Latest paper on material-based design research, focusing on bio-material explorations, is out and...