This is a curricular resource for a digital fabrication (3D Printing) lesson that challenges (secondary-level or higher) students to create an artifact for a specific physical body.
Drawing on the varied practices of artists such as Sonya Clark, Stelarc, Rebecca Horn, and Neri Oxman, students will critically examine how artworks might extend, ornament, or connect human bodies.
Students then are tasked with collecting relevant data on a specific body in their life – this might include quantitative physical measurements, and/or qualitative interviews – to develop a 3D printable artifact specifically for that individual.
This was developed as part of the larger curricular facet of Aaron Knochel’s MAKE3D project at The Pennsylvania State University.
A teaching resource based on this curriculum was published in Volume 73, Issue 5 of Art Education journal.
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