Skylar Tibbits

Associate Professor
Department
Department of Architecture
Technology Areas
Chemicals & Materials: Composites, Fabrics & Textiles, Metals, Polymers / Industrial Engineering & Automation: Manufacturing & Equipment / Sensing & Imaging: Chemical & Radiation Sensing / Biotechnology: Sensors & Monitoring / Environmental Engineering: Sustainability & Recycling
Impact Areas
Advanced Materials, Sustainable Future, Healthy Living, Uncharted Frontiers

Innovating at the intersection of design and technology, advancing self-assembly and programmable material technologies for revolutionary manufacturing and construction processes.

Background and Experience

Skylar Tibbits is an Associate Professor of Design Research in the Department of Architecture where he teaches graduate and undergraduate design studios and coordinate's MIT's undergraduate Design programs. Tibbits is also the co-director and founder of the Self-Assembly Lab housed at MIT’s Morningside Academy for Design. The Self-Assembly Lab focuses on self-assembly and programmable material technologies for novel manufacturing, products and construction processes.

Technologies

4D: Printing Multi-Material Shape Change

Technology / Case number: #16494J
Skylar Tibbits / Daniel Dikovsky / Shai Hirsch
Technology Areas: Industrial Engineering & Automation
Impact Areas: Advanced Materials
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