Collaborative Robot Drawing: Beyond Optimization

Saturday, April 5 | 2 – 3:30PM
In-person at InterAccess (32 Lisgar Street, Toronto)
FREE, register here

Work together with the Universal Collaborative (UR) robot arm to draw paper illustrations from digital designs.
The event will include a brief overview of robot arms, insights into how artists, makers, and designers program them using visual-based scripting software, and will conclude with live interactive demonstrations. Afterwards, participants are invited to stay in a more casual setting to further develop their drawings and make their own take-away artwork.

SCHEDULE

2 – 3:30PM: Presentation & interactive demonstration
3:30 – 6PM: Informal drawing session

Presented as part of Beyond Optimization: ROB|ARCH Retrospective, on view at InterAccess between Mar 19 - Apr 5, 2025.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Maria Yablonina is a Toronto-based artist, designer, and technologist working across the fields of computational design, robotics, and critical technology. Much of their work involves development of custom robotic systems from scratch - a practice that forces them to reconsider relationships between the technical, the built, and the natural environments. Working in art, design, and engineering research, Maria argues for a practice that moves beyond the design of objects towards the design of processes that enable new ways of making and thinking with craft and technology.

Maria holds a PhD in Engineering and a Master of Science in Architecture from the University of Stuttgart. Maria is an Assistant Professor at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto and a faculty member of the Robotics Institute at the University of Toronto.

ABOUT ROB|ARCH 2024

ROB|ARCH 2024 was hosted in Toronto, Canada, from May 21-25, 2024 as a collaboration between the University of Toronto (UofT) and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). The conference featured a series of eight workshops and three days of programming, including keynotes by Sougwen Chung, Brian Ringley, and Yusuke Obuchi, and a special session by the Association for Robots in Architecture.

ROB|ARCH 2024 invited leading researchers from around the world to host three-day intensive workshops in Toronto, Canada. Each workshop focused on the creative uses of robotic production, ranging from the testing of architectural interventions to robotic performance and filming to the design of objects and installations. Participants engaged in hands-on explorations while learning how to program the robots and produce the work on display at InterAccess.

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