Subterranean Reflections And The Futuristic Cave
At the pace of under-earthly light, our processes are sprawling through dark hollow subterranean arms. Our vision encompasses a series of installations (sculptural constellations) and interpretative performances within Tawney’s palatial rooms, and reaches toward a digital and physical ‘Future Cave’ through sculptural installation and immersive projections in ICAT’s ‘Cube Studio’ in Spring of 2019.
FamilySong: Prototyping and Implementing Devices for Remote Family Connection
Struggling to connect at a distance, families separated by migration devise ways to establish simple ways of communication between grandparents and their very young grandchildren. The grandchildren are sometimes pre-verbal. With FamilySong, we propose the creation of a shared-experience of listening to music, as a means of maintaining connection without disturbing other home activities.
Virtual IAWA
This new visualizing tool provides an interactive platform that assists one to browse the collections of the International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA) to gain multiple cross-readings from the breadth of the archive.
Evaluating the feasibility of using sound to track honey bee recruitment dances
Update: The bees are awake and Roger and Ricardo are studying sound propagation within observation hives. Audio/video recording of dances resumes next week.
Parametric Sign Shack
The Parametric Sign Shack is an exploration in curvilinear surfaces constructed of two dimensional panels.
Does America Need More Innovators?
Corporate executives, politicians, and school board leaders agree—Americans must innovate. But critics have begun to question the unceasing promotion of innovation, pointing out its gadget-centric shallowness, the lack of diversity among innovators, and the unequal distribution of innovation's burdens and rewards.
Researchers develop method to improve 3D-printed prosthetics by integrating electronic sensors
With the growth of 3D printing, it’s entirely possible to 3D print your own prosthetic from models found in open-source databases.
But those models lack personalized electronic user interfaces like those found in costly, state-of-the-art prosthetics.
Now, a Virginia Tech professor and his interdisciplinary team of undergraduate student researchers have made inroads in integrating electronic sensors with personalized 3D-printed prosthetics — a development that could one day lead to more affordable electric-powered prosthetics.
ACCelerate Festival to showcase exploration, innovation across ACC
Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian Institution are leading the second ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian Creativity and Innovation Festival on April 5-7, 2019, at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
The three-day festival is a unique opportunity for schools across the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) to convene and celebrate creative exploration and research happening at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD).
2019 ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day Proposals
ICAT Creativity and Innovation Day will be held on Monday, May 6, 2018, from 10 AM to 4 PM. This event is a celebration of innovation and process at the nexus of science, engineering, arts, and design (SEAD). The event features projects funded by ICAT, projects from transdisciplinary courses, projects with ICAT-affiliated faculty, and community projects that work at the nexus of SEAD.
We are a collection of artists, designers, engineers, and scientists coming together in a living laboratory that fosters creativity and promotes critical reflection.
The Cube is highly-adaptable and has been used to create immersive environments, intimate performances, audio and visual installations, research, and experimental investigations of all kinds.
Proposals must be transdisciplinary in nature and explore some aspect of technology and at least two of the following areas represented by the Institute and its studios...
