| 24. Engineering Art | |
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Offered by | ME, CE&C, APSE and ID |
Available in timeslot | D |
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Preferred entrance knowledge / skills |
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Student capacity | 64 |
Group size | 6 |
Contact person | Manolis Chatzigiannakis, e.c.chatzigiannakis@tue.nl |
Project description
How do we engineer art? How much science is involved in art? Science, engineering and art connect and intersect in multiple, yet subtle ways. Often art inspires scientists and engineers. In 1878, Van’t Hoff in his essay titled “Imagination in Science” listed artistic pursuits of every major scientist before his time. Poets and painters often capture natural phenomena with scientific precision and artistic charm. Oliver Andrews, in his book “Living Materials: A Sculptor’s Handbook”, exemplifies the importance of materials and of their processing in sculpting, stating that “whether quarried, mined harvested, or manufactured, all materials are expressions of the forces of nature. The artist encounters these forces in his work, as do architects, road builders, and scientists”. We increasingly affirm that creativity and aesthetics are an integral to good science, yet as educators we consistently struggle to facilitate the nurturing of such talents by the students. In the “Engineering Art” CBL project, students of different disciplines and backgrounds will work together to design, engineer and prepare an artistic object (e.g. painting, sculpture, short film). The project will involve the following steps:
- Develop a design idea of an “art object”,
- Use experiment, theory, or programming to engineer an “art object”.
Example challenges include: “Achieve van Gogh’s impasto technique with aqueous-based pigments” “Difficulties in conserving Piero Gilardi’s sculptures: Restoring art pieces made of polymer foam”. “Bubbles, foams, and wetting fluid-fronts: transient interactions with art”. “Can artificial intelligence generate (good) poems?”.
