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Manufacturing
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Jesús Llinares on Andreu World’s Path to Circular Design
The CEO of the Spanish furniture manufacturer speaks to METROPOLIS about the company’s history, approach to circularity, and recent research into bio-based materials.
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Tsz Yan Ng is Pushing the Boundaries of Material Innovation
Developed with support from the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Robotic Needle Felting is a novel additive manufacturing technique for nonwoven textiles.
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NewLab Puts Down Roots in Detroit
Architecture firm Civilian helps transform Albert Kahn’s Detroit Book Depository into a sprawling incubator for innovations in mobility technology.
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Women-Led Manufacturers Are Modeling Innovative Ways to Engage Designers
Collectively, these companies are ushering in a new era of intuitive, fast, user-friendly models for business.
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Some Place Studio Designs a Sleek Sunlit Office for an Austrian Factory
For its first built project, New York and Vienna–based firm Some Place Studio injects some unpredictability into a company specializing in precision manufacturing.
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MIT, Steelcase to 3D Print Custom Designs on Demand
In its quest to create the ultimate customizable furniture, Steelcase teamed up with MIT to develop a new digital fabrication technology.
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The Materials & Tools Taking Making Into the Future
The relationship between digital technology and craft underwent a rapid transformation from antagonistic to symbiotic in the past decade. Now a vanguard of makers, entrepreneurs, and institutions is taking the next step.
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Shenzhen Moves Beyond Its Manufacturing Past, Embraces Design Future
The young Chinese city is shedding its reputation for cheap or counterfeit goods and being recognized as an international design and manufacturing powerhouse.
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Marriott Teams Up With West Elm for New Furniture Collection
A collaboration between Marriott and West Elm leads to crossover innovations between hospitality and manufacturing.
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Urban Think Tank Distl: We Need Manufacturing Back in Our City Cores
In Canada’s largest city, three urban strategists argue that manufacturing desperately needs to make its return to urban cores.
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Game Changers 2016: Co-Working Space Ponyride Detroit
Many have pegged Detroit’s comeback to a rebirth of manufacturing. A collaborative working space shows the way forward by linking entrepreneurial making with urban growth.
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Profiles
Liam Casey Plans to Disrupt Manufacturing—by Producing Less
Can making less help us innovate more? This supply-chain guru, who has worked with giants like Apple, is forging connections between sustainable manufacturing and emerging entrepreneurs.
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Profiles
Portland’s ADX: A Makerspace with Urban Ambitions
The founder of Portland's ADX on sharing, hard work, and the next generation of makers
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A New Technology Recreates Geologic Processes in Four Hours
A Spanish surface manufacturer develops a new technology that mimics the way nature forms the hardest rocks.
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Why Carpet Manufacturer Interface Is Embracing Biophilia
In the post–Ray Anderson era, Interface sets itself even higher goals.