Design

From building skyscrapers to creating video games and everything in between, design integrates form, function, experience and context to generate solutions. The entwining of art, science and technology is fundamental to the process. See how this plays out in the work of our Confluence storytellers.

My life’s work

Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer

Destructive testing and art

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Instruments are magical

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Making things is breaking things

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Our attachment to the cymbals

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Our voices came together

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Brainstorming and glass printing

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project

Printing the glass cymbals

Tod Machover, composer & inventor
Zoe Laughlin, materials engineer
Michael Stern, The Glass Cymbal Project