At what size to innovate and the kind of problems to look for in social issues.
#1 - Innovating the product + how to get it there ( supply chain )
#2 - how to convert salt water into drinkable water ?
#3 - how to reduce wastage of bought veggies ?
#4 - how can algo's design a home ?
#5 - how to reduce respiratory illness in babies ?
#6 - how to create machine wash with no power ?
#8 - how to design a light with multiple purposes ?
#9 - how to use 3D printing for children ?
how additive printing helped a baby where metallic arms could not.
"Landscape House" is the brainchild of architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars. He describes it as "one surface folded in an endless Mobius band," or sort of a giant figure 8. According to its creator, walking through its continuous looping design will seamlessly merge indoors and outdoors in an effort to model nature itself.
Nature creates processes which create forms.
Build performance attributes into the materials, not separated from it like in buidings - where steel handles structural performance and glass which handles environmental performance.
The designer generates many options to match environmental constraints.
Nature / Bone done analysis, modeling and fabrication in one process.
Second skin - to map the pain profile of a patient and distribute hardness and softness according to the pain profile - for example for carpal tunnel syndrome,
We will build buildings with one material and vary its properties making it hard or soft, opaque or transparent.
“This will reverse the arrow of globalization,” Anderson said. “The centuries of quest for cheaper labor is over. Labor arbitrage no longer drives trade.” The advantages of speed and flexibility give the advantage to “locavore” manufacturing because “Closer is faster.” Innovation is released from the dead weight of large-batch commitments. Designers now can sit next to the robots building their designs and make adjustments in real time.