Cicatr/ci
3D printing and sculpting art for individual and collective expression
Research collaboration
- 📅 · Period:
Oct 2017 – Oct 2018 // June 2021 – Oct 2021 💰 · Collaboration:
Research collaboration, Il Bullone, Fondazione Near Onlus.🏛 · Main facility:
+LAB, Politecnico di Milano, Italy🤝 · Partners:
1 academic/industrial partner and 1 non-profit organization, Italy (fabrication and manufacturing focus). More partners and follow-up are listed herehere.⭐ · My Role:
Master Thesis Student, Artist (first period), 3D printing specialist - large format 3D printing (second period)🏫 · My Affiliation:
Master Thesis Student in Design & Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano (Italy) (first period) Research Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta", Politecnico di Milano (Italy) (second period)🏷️ · Keywords:
3D printing, sculpting, Codesign, arts, exhibition, collaboration, large-format 3D printing, sculpture, venus, david, artwork, expression, visual media, 3d modeling, parametric design.
Overview
B.EAUTYlities is a research project developed at +Lab, the 3D printing research laboratory of Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Il Bullone and Fondazione NEAR Onlus. The project focused on co-design to develop customizable, low-cost assistive products for people living with cancer treatments and chronic diseases, using low-cost 3D printing and parametric design. Patient co-designers, in this case members of the B.Live community, joined a multidisciplinary team of designers and medical staff in a workshop session, contributing personal briefs corresponding to specific daily-life needs arising from their treatments. The project led to a codesign activity carried out with one of the participants, which resulted in two 3D-printed customizable assistive products to manage a peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) during daily routines: IF, a customizable bracelet designed to protect the catheter during outdoor activities, and THEN, a customizable waterproof product enabling silicone cold-casting for use during showers and beauty-care routines. Both products are distributed with open-source licenses and made available via parametric online configurators on ShapeDiver, allowing users to customize their devices and fabricate them with desktop-size 3D printers. 1
