Additive Manufacturing & Consumer Products in Commercially Produced 3D-Printed Footwear:

Ideal for anyone interested in industrial design, fashion design, materials science, and additive manufacturing - come see one of the world’s largest collections of commercially produced 3D-printed shoes in person!

Please join Dr Laia Mogas-Soldevila's students in an interactive lecture across science and design featuring a 3d-printed shoe collection by her collaborator Dr. James C. Weaver (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT & Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University).

Dr. James C. Weaver runs the Wide-Field Electron Optics Laboratory and leads the Biologically Inspired Materials and Design Group. Working at the interface between zoology, materials science, biomedical engineering, and multi-material 3D printing, his main research interests focus on investigating structure-function relationships in hierarchically ordered biological composites and the advanced fabrication of their synthetic analogues. He has played critical roles in the development of new model systems for the study of a wide range of biomineralization processes and is an internationally recognized and award-winning scanning electron microscopist. With a strong history of national and international academic and industrial collaborations, he has coauthored more than 150 journal articles in the biological, physical, and geological sciences. His work has been featured on the covers of more than 40 scientific journals and he has contributed to numerous collaborative art installations, which have been exhibited in Berlin, Boston, Frankfurt, London, New York, Paris, and San Francisco.