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Images for download on the MIT News office website are made available to non-commercial entities, press and the general public under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives license. You may not alter the images provided, other than to crop them to size. A credit line must be used when reproducing images; if one is not provided below, credit the images to "MIT." Previous image Next image While working as a lecturer in MIT’s Department of Architecture, Skylar Tibbits SM ’10 was also building art installations in galleries all over the world. Most of these installations featured complex structures created from algorithmically designed and computationally fabricated parts, building off Tibbits’ graduate work at the Institute. Late one night in 2011 he was working with his team for hours — painstakingly riveting and bolting together thousands of tiny parts — to install a corridor-spanning work called VoltaDom at MIT for the Institute’s 150th anniversary

As he invents programmable materials and self-organizing systems, Skylar Tibbits is pushing design boundaries while also solving real-world problems. Watch Video Adam Zewe | MIT News Publication Date : November 3, 2024 Press Inquiries Press Contact : Melanie Grados Email: mgrados@mit.edu Phone: 617-253-1682 MIT News Office Media Download ↓ Download Image Caption : “I wanted to learn a different discipline and really enter a different world. That is what brought me to MIT, and I never left,” Skylar Tibbits says. Credits : Photo: Adam Glanzman ↓ Download Image Caption : “If you were to ask someo

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