Skylar Tibbits, a TED Fellow, is an artist and computational architect working on "smart" components that can assemble themselves.
Why you should listen to him:
Skylar Tibbits is a trained architect, designer and computer scientist whose research focuses on developing self-assembly technologies for large-scale structures in our physical environment. At MIT's Department of Architecture, he teaches a graduate design studio and co-teaches a seminar at MIT's Media Lab. Previously, he worked at a number of design offices including Zaha Hadid Architects, Asymptote Architecture, SKIII Space Variations and Point b Design. His work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum and the Beijing Biennale.
Tibbits has collaborated with a number of influential people over the years, including Neil Gershenfeld and The Center for Bits and Atoms, Erik and Marty Demaine at MIT, Adam Bly at SEED Media Group and Marc Fornes of THEVERYMANY. In 2007, he and Marc Fornes co-curated Scriptedbypurpose, the first exhibition focused exclusively on scripted processes within design. Also in 2007, he founded SJET, a multifaceted practice and research platform for experimental computation + design. SJET crosses disciplines from architecture + design, fabrication, computer science and robotics.
Quotes by Skylar Tibbits
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“There’s new possibilities for self-assembly, replication, repair in our physical structures, our buildings, machines. … Imagine if our buildings, our bridges, machines, all of our bricks could actually compute.”
