Research Project: Full Freeform Fabrication – A Paradigm-shift in Design
Principal Researcher: Prof. Steinar Killi _ siv. ing. NTNU
Research Period: 1997 -
Research Status: ongoing

The emergence of production technology that have no limits in shape (full freeform fabrication) will lead to new products. How will the approach to design, the design process and its related concerns and methods change? And what will be the new output of a changed design process? These are the principle inquires of this research.

The goal of this research is to map three groups of product design: [i] enhanced design, [ii] custom design and [iii] experimental design. Moreover, the aim is to investigate whether there are new ways of informing and conducting a design process using fff (full freeform fabrication).

Furthermore it is intended to investigate the related repercussions of the development of these advanced freeform fabrication techniques with regards to architecture and the material systems that facilitate performance-oriented design in general.