Week 2 Goals

#1: Read articles/research how 3D printing is being used in the field of Museum and Art Education

#2: Download 3D Design software and start playing around with it.

#3: Talk to Deana Dart about the idea of making 3D manipulitables for an outreach kit for the exhibit we are planing in my AAD 510 class.

GOAL #1

I read these articles:

3-D Printing: MUSEUM QUALITY

3D SCANNING AND REPLICATION FOR MUSEUM AND CULTURAL HERITAGE APPLICATIONS

Museums and 3D Printing: More Than a Workshop Novelty, Connecting to Collections and the Classroom

These talk about the use of 3D printing in museums. 3D printing technology can be used in many different areas of the museum from the being the objects themselves, to education tools, to helping in conservation and documentation. It can even be used to reverse engineer pieces of objects to make casts for missing pieces without having to touch the object, which could cause damage.

The last article talks specifically about museum programing in education that deals with 3D printing. It talks about a program that allows museum professionals visiting the Art Institute of Chicago to use their phones and the 123 Catch app to scan objects and work with software to edit the objects and make the scans perfect and print the objects for themselves. This is exactly what I want to do with my project this term (except I would like to use the printed objects for further education programs).

GOAL #2

I did not get so far on goal number two as I had hoped (I was super sick this week). I did download Fusion 360 onto my computer but I was not able to play around with it at all or do any tutorials. I will start playing around with it this next week as I start week 3!

 

GOAL #3

I actually chose not to do this this week because Deana seemed really stressed this week about the exhibit that we are starting to plan and the sheer amount of work that we will be doing over the next ten weeks. Since we won’t even have objects and be starting to plan education programs until atlas week 4 or 5, I figured I would wait and talk to her then about the matter.