Digital Design and Technology Integration

Students from Design Studies 546, a capstone interdisciplinary studio that brings together students from across the College, collaborated on a project that developed low-carbon 3D-printed concrete made from decommissioned wind turbines and corn stover ash.

Shelby Doyle is working alongside Pete Evans, an assistant professor of industrial design, and other ISU faculty and staff on the 3D Affordable Innovative Technologies Housing Project. The project involves a collaboration among Iowa State, Iowa Central Community College and the private construction firm Brunow Contracting to address a lack of affordable housing in rural communities.

Johnny DiBlasi, an assistant professor of art and visual culture, recently received a $10,000 grant from the Iowa Arts Council to develop “Transcoded Ecologies,” a project that fuses artificial intelligence and plant biodata into an art installation that incorporates light and sound. The concept involves sensors that track data produced by tree saplings and an artificial intelligence program that translates the data into a dynamic artistic experience.