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- Two-Week Session, Monday February 4th - Sunday February 17th, 2019
- SFPC, 155 Bank Street, West Village, NYC
- 6:30pm - 9:30pm, Evening Classes
- Apply now! – deadline is January 21st, 2019
How does our understanding of technology change when abstractions become tangible? In this course, paper acts as a bridge between code, mathematics, and our human sensory experience of the world.
When we fold, we imbue an inert material with pattern, structure, animation, function, and interface; a crease in paper is a re-programming of the material's memory. Folded structures give us a means to touch and manipulate difficult problems and unlike simple machines (limited by static friction), folding systems can be applied at any scale, from nanometer to spacecraft scale. With an increased knowledge of folding mechanisms can we build more sustainable, ecologically-aware technology?
Lead by paper engineer and designer Kelli Anderson and origami artist and developer Robby Kraft, SFPC's two-week session will explore the wide variety of ways that a piece of paper can produce function.
Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Camera
- learn how folding can be used to augment or replace traditional engineering methods
- foundational methods in kirigami and pop-ups
- contemporary origami design from uniaxial bases to software based computational flat-foldability
- an introduction to silkscreened electronics
- an introduction to prototyping methods, manufacturing, code-based modeling and testing strategies
Class meets weekday evenings 6:30 - 9:30 pm, ten times between February 4th - 15th, with a final student showcase on Sunday, February 17.
Students will have access to resources and mentorship by leading practitioners in the field to create ambitious paper projects. We want to encourage students to invent new folding-as-tech projects that no one has seen before or reinvent ancient techniques anew with software and hardware. No prior coding or craft experience is necessary. Admissions is based on essay and previous work samples.
“The distant universe and our immediate world can both be found in paper.” – Kenya Hara
- Kelli Anderson (Co-Organizer) - Kelli Anderson is a designer/paper engineer who draws, photographs, cuts, prints, codes, and creates stop-motion videos. She is also known for her work for NPR, The New Yorker, Wired, and MoMA—as well as branding/space redesigns for Russ & Daughters and momofuku. Her books, This Book Is a Planetarium and This Book is a Camera, are collections of functional pop-up contraptions that elucidate scientific principles in tactile terms.
- Robby Kraft (Co-Organizer, On-Site Support) - Robby is an origami artist, creative engineer, instructor, and toolmaker. He's the creator of Rabbit Ear, the origami software design tool, and is proficient in all disciplines of origami including advanced folding, design, and mathematics and software simulation.
- Simon Arizpe - Simon is a paper engineer and illustrator. His pop-up book work has received the Award of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators and the Museum of Comic Book Art and Cartooning. The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum Library and the Columbia University Library have acquired his work for their rare book collections.
- Pam Liou - Pam is a computational designer and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work examines tensions between craftsmanship, technology and commerce, revealing the hidden sociopolitical infrastructures undergirding human industry. Her research centers around recoupling the consumer with the producer through design literacy and mass customization, fostering intimacy and efficacy through a dialectical creation process.
- Coralie Gourguechon - Coralie Gourguechon is a designer and a paper electronics maker. Her projects aim to to demystify electronics by simplifying the execution of simple circuits in a graphical way and using paper.
- Taeyoon Choi (Session Advisor) - Taeyoon is an artist, a co-founder of School for Poetic Computation, an adjunct professor at NYU ITP and a former fellow at Data and Society. In 2018, Taeyoon is working on Distributed Web of Care and ongoing research with a critical perspective towards technology, ethics, justice and sensitivity to the concept of personhood.
Kelli Anderson - This Book is a Planetarium
Coralie Gourguechon - Paper electronic modules
Robby Kraft - orthogonal Voronoi molecules
Classes are held in the evenings Monday-Friday from 6:30-9:30pm. SFPC space will be open for students on weekdays between 4pm-6:30pm for office hours and work. The session will culminate in a showcase / party on the evening of Sunday, February 17th, open to the public, where students can exhibit and present their projects from the two weeks.
Students will have full access to the space during open hours for the two weeks of the session to work on projects between classes and mentors will be readily available for technical, conceptual, and artistic guidance.
- Come to all classes and thoughtfully engage with your classmates and teachers.
- We are looking for autodidacts from all backgrounds who are curious, generous and open.
- We welcome students with a broad array of technical and artistic experiences–no experience level is required.
- A laptop computer will be useful for some sessions.
- All other materials and supplies will be provided by SFPC.
Rabbit Ear, creative coding origami library
Apply here by January 21st, 2019.
We accept up to 18 students. We will respond to your application within 3 weeks of submission. Rolling admissions means there are fewer and fewer slots the longer you wait, so if you’re interested in the program get your application in early!
SFPC admissions is highly competitive. Every session, we receive up to 80 applicants and select 18. We focus on creating diversity among our student body. We work with a group of alumni and teachers to review and select students based on their work samples and essays.
$2,000 USD for the 2-week program. You’ll also need to cover your own cost of living, including housing and meals (recent alumni report this to be in the range of $500 - $900). Upon acceptance, payment of full tuition, your space in the class will be reserved. SFPC tuition goes directly to paying for the teachers, organizers, materials and space that make sessions like this possible; our finances are open source.
We are completely self-funded, which dramatically limits our ability to offer scholarships. In Code-Paper-Scissors, we are offering two work-study opportunity to a qualified applicant who would be expected to work 10 hrs/week in exchange for a 50% reduction of tuition. We’re particularly looking out for women, people of color, disabled person, people under-represented in the field of art + technology, and those with financial need.
Please note that if you apply for work study, we will consider your application separately from the general admissions applications, since we have little flexibility regarding scholarships. This is for people who absolutely need assistance to participate in SFPC. Occasionally, students have received support from cultural foundations, schools or current employers and we are happy to provide supporting materials as proof of acceptance.
- If you are accepted and need to cancel, we can give you 100% refund up to January 15th, 2019.
- 50% refund between January 15th – January 31st, 2019.
- 25% refund between February 1st – February 4th, 2019.
- No refunds can be given after the first day of class.
- Participation is not transferrable to another person.
space filling origami by Robby, rendered in Origami Simulator by Amanda Ghassaei.
We are located at 155 Bank Street, in the courtyard of the Westbeth Artists' Community in Manhattan's West Village, New York City.
Feel free to contact organizer Robby Kraft (robbykraft@gmail.com) with any questions about the session, or info@sfpc.io for any general questions about finances or the school.
