Robot Workshop with FSD.Temp

For this follow up to the MYOB (Make Your Own Brick) workshop, bring a brick or just watch and chat as a low-cost, low-impact robot places bricks to create a wall and planter in the NATURE Lab yard.

Bricks have shaped the industrial and visual language of Troy for centuries, while advances in technology and manufacturing are shaping questions about our collective future. In part 2 of our brick series, participants are invited to bring their own bricks to the NATURElab yard, where a low-cost, low-impact robot will use them to build a wall and planter. This event is an invitation to witness, discuss, and participate in the robot’s “work”.  The robot was built by FSD.TEMP, a temporary creative group exploring the accessibility of complex and expensive technologies through experimentation, hyper-local materials, and community collaboration.  

This is the second of two events from FSD.TEMP hosted by the NATURE lab, made possible by the Capital Region Arts Thrive & Grow grant.  Arts Thrive & Grow is funded by New York State & the New York State Council on the Arts, with support from Governor Kathy Hochul, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins, and local elected officials, including Senators Jake Ashby and Patricia Fahy and Assemblymembers Scott H. Bendett, John T. McDonald III, Angelo Santabarbara, Phil Steck, and Mary Beth Walsh.

About FSD.TEMP:

Julian Goldman is a founding industrial designer at Fun Stuff Design in Troy, NY and an internationally exhibiting designer/artist focused on the point at which novel technology and materials touch society. 

Claire Moriarty is a designer, researcher & educator combining advanced technology, aesthetics & responsive systems. Her work centers on the fabrication of architectural-scale, multi-media interventions. She is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture. 

Dierdre Shea is a multidisciplinary object-designer investigating meaningful ecosystems in product and manufacturing through sustainable materials, creative experimentation and novel technology. She is a founding industrial designer at Fun Stuff Design.

Riley Studebaker is a lecturer at the RPI School of Architecture where he focuses on robotic labor embedded in the built environment.