Project description
Turning trash into crafts
Imagine what an artisan can make with the right materials and tools. The EU-funded RRREMAKER project will develop an AI platform for the design and production of handcrafted goods based on the availability of used objects and collected recyclable waste. The platform will analyse the information on what is available and relay this to digital manufacturers and traditional crafters, designers/creative companies, and green companies. More than sharing information, the project will integrate cutting-edge algorithms of generative design, as well as experimental data, in order to predict, amongst others, structures, forms, materials, colours and ornaments. Also, the platform will be able to analyse goods already on the market and propose changes to make them innovative and more appealing.
Objective
The extensive objective of this RISE programme, called RRREMAKER, is to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) based maker platform for the design and production of handcrafted, rapid prototyped and reconditioned products, based on the availability of used goods and recyclable waste collected, getting inputs from, and connecting together, digital manufacturers and traditional crafts, designers/creative companies and green companies, establishing a new hybrid managing model based on the communities of knowledge, ecodesign and democratization invention, integrating orange, sharing and circular economy.
As a disruptive approach, besides being a framework in which the different fields involved can share information, the proposed intelligent computational platform itself will be a main actor in the creative process, by integrating cutting-edge algorithms of generative design, as genetic and superquadric-based algorithms, machine learning classifiers, algorithms for big data, cloud computing, and experimental data will predict structures, forms, materials, colours, ornaments, etc, based on traditional artisan and innovative design parameters, and recycling materials. The platform will also be a “sorting point” to share information between recyclable material collectors and ecodesigners/green manufacturers, connecting them to each other. Also, based on the sales information archived, the platform will be able to generate maps of features of the goods already on the market and automatically propose to the manufacturers changes to make them innovative and more appealing.
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18071 Granada
Spain