Outputs (18)

Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the light of an unprecedented climate emergency, there is an urgent need to reconsider the materials we use for the construction of our buildings and to explore alternative material systems that are abundant, easy to source, and exhibit increased... Read More about Robotic additive manufacturing of lichen composites for air quality monitoring.

Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion (2024)
Digital Artefact

This booklet covers research exploring innovative approaches with the ceramic extrusion process. The research was carried out from October 2021 to April 2024 and led by Dr Tavs Jorgensen, Associate Professor at the Centre for Print Research (CFPR) at... Read More about Innovation with impact: Interdisciplinary approaches and empirical research with ceramic extrusion.

Framed oneliner square and oneliner round (2024)
Physical Artefact

The pieces explore how new digital interfaces can capture lines and mark making drawn free hand in space. The aim is to find workflows to use such lines directly as the basis for designed artefacts. The choice of glass as medium is down to the mate... Read More about Framed oneliner square and oneliner round.

Digital toolmaking for earth building components: The use of low-cost extruder and 3D printing to develop new fabrication approaches for cob and light earth bricks (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on ongoing research into innovative methods for extruding cob and light earth building components, aiming to establish a cost-effective fabrication system. The paper provides a brief contextual overview of related work and outlines... Read More about Digital toolmaking for earth building components: The use of low-cost extruder and 3D printing to develop new fabrication approaches for cob and light earth bricks.

Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion (2023)
Journal Article

This paper details practice-based research exploring new creative possibilities involving the ceramic extrusion process. The paper begins by providing a short overview of the extrusion technique, its charac-teristics and some contextual coverage of t... Read More about Twisting clay - Creative research to explore the complex rheology in ceramic extrusion.

Extrusion of ceramic matrix composites (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Ceramic Matrix Composites (CMCs) have been gaining increasing attention as an exceptionally useful material for challenging environments such as high temperature applications in Aerospace. However, their production has so far been limited to particul... Read More about Extrusion of ceramic matrix composites.

Development of novel solutions for robotic 3D ceramic paste printing (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

3D printing with polymer-based mediums is ubiquitous in many sectors with a broad range of technologies maturing and providing a very good level choice both in terms of cost and quality. However, with the ceramic medium some challenges still remain t... Read More about Development of novel solutions for robotic 3D ceramic paste printing.

Ceramic extrusion research (2023)
Exhibition / Performance

Developing concept system for robotics open heart surgery (2022)
Digital Artefact

Research interests in the healthcare field have for some time been growing within CFPR. A connection with Dr Muhammad Bilal from UWE’s Big Data Enterprise and Artificial Intelligence Lab is, in particular, developing some promising healthcare researc... Read More about Developing concept system for robotics open heart surgery.

New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper and presentation concern the development of new methods with ceramic profile extrusion with the aim of expanding the creative exploration of architectural ceramic components. The project has established fast tooling workflows for the creat... Read More about New approaches with ceramic profile extrusion.

The use of low-cost 3D printing technology to develop fabrication tools for clay profile extrusion (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on interim results from ongoing research which investigate how low-cost 3D printing technologies can assist innovation with the clay extrusion process.
The project explores the possibility of using standard plastic filament 3D pr... Read More about The use of low-cost 3D printing technology to develop fabrication tools for clay profile extrusion.

Ceramic profile extrusion: New tooling approaches to re-appropriate the use of a heritage medium in architecture (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The ceramic medium is extremely prevalent in our build environment. This medium is used in architecture in a myriad of applications in the shape of: bricks, cladding, roofing and tiles for interior/exterior surfaces. The use of red terracotta is char... Read More about Ceramic profile extrusion: New tooling approaches to re-appropriate the use of a heritage medium in architecture.

Smart Tooling for Ceramic Extrusion (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will outline research into ceramic profile extrusion. The research was initiated as creative explorations within the author's own craft practice. However, the project has since developed into a UKRI funded project, with global compa... Read More about Smart Tooling for Ceramic Extrusion.

Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler (2019)
Journal Article

Abstract: This paper describes research concerning the creation of a novel sheet glass forming system based on the Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) principle. The paper will initially outline some of the theoretical and technical background for the r... Read More about Tools for tooling: Digital fabrication technology as the innovation enabler.

Neo-industrial biography, glass working and re-configurable toolmaking (2015)
Exhibition / Performance

The title for this exhibition (and presentation) is a reference to Samuel Smiles book: “Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Toolmakers” (1863).
In this book Smiles discusses how advances in tool making was the driving force for the first industr... Read More about Neo-industrial biography, glass working and re-configurable toolmaking.

Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation (2014)
Journal Article

This is a two-part paper; firstly, describing a collaborative research project aiming to provide innovation in glass investment casting through the exploration of digital fabrication methods. Secondly, illustrating examples of the artistic explorati... Read More about Reflection on a collaborative research project in digital moulding for glass casting and artistic interpretation.

Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition (2014)
Physical Artefact

Glass Bowls featured at “British Design: from William Morris to the Digital Revolution”

The exhibition was a participant of Russian-British 2014 Bilateral Year and took place in the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Intimate yet fundamental, this... Read More about Grey pin bowl at the "British Design: From William Morris to the Digital Revolution" exhibition.

Orbit series of glass bowls
Digital Artefact

This conference contribution is an exhibition of a series of glass bowls. These bowls are part of the output from the author’s investigation into a flexible tooling concepts known as Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) and the ‘Orbit’ series is the resu... Read More about Orbit series of glass bowls.