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FAll 2020: ARCH 401 Professor: Shelby Doyle Iowa State University Site: Des Moines, Iowa Team of Two: Stevie Flores, YanJiu Bai

Through the view from the book, staying with the trouble, we are shifting from Anthropocene to Chthulucene and facing the Cyborg future. We are falling into connection with digital products and gradually changing our daily lives. When 3D printers and other digital fabrication become more affordable for families, how do we gradually learn the interaction and live with robotics in the future?

We propose constructing a digital fabrication lab facing the public in Des Moines, Iowa. As a starting point, the lab provides the platform for the public to learn and participate in digital fabrication. The process can cultivate the abilities of Human-Computer Interaction and coexist with robotics in the future. At the same time, cultivating the digital fabrication culture is re-meaning and reusing the abundant industrial context, so it becomes the nudge of the Industrial transformation, which brings development and more possibilities for Des Moines.