{"id":283,"date":"2013-01-12T18:51:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/?p=283"},"modified":"2013-02-14T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:48:14","slug":"making-space-at-the-iff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theiff.org\/current\/news\/making-space-at-the-iff\/","title":{"rendered":"making space at the IFF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Network of linked octahedrons constructed from folded business cards by Jacob Dotson<\/a> at the IFF’s making space exhibition.<\/p><\/div>\n

News Flash<\/strong>: On January 22, 2013, the New York Times<\/strong> Science section ran an essay<\/a> about the IFF’s explorations in spatial play.<\/em><\/p>\n

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EVENT SCHEDULE:\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>From January through May, 2013, the IFF will be holding workshops and lectures in conjunction with our current exhibition\u00a0making space<\/a>. <\/strong>Here\u00a0<\/strong>is the schedule for January and February.<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 5, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop: <\/strong>Business card origami<\/em><\/strong>
\nMargaret Wertheim (Director, Institute For Figuring)
\nLearn basic techniques of business card origami.<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 12, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop: <\/strong>Mosely Snowflake Sponge Tower #1<\/em>
\nMargaret Wertheim + Christina Simons (Institute For Figuring)
\nJoin us as we begin to construct an amazing Snowflake Fractal Tower from 6000 business cards<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 19, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop: <\/strong>Topology and Geometry<\/em>
\nMargaret Wertheim (Director, Institute For Figuring)
\nEver wonder what\u2019s the difference between topology and geometry? Come find out through mathematical play.<\/p>\n

Saturday, January 26, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop:<\/strong> Constructing hyperbolic surfaces with paper annuli<\/em>
\nDr. Darryl Yong (Dept. of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College)
\nA rare opportunity to make an annulus model of hyperbolic space discovered by geometer Bill Thurston<\/p>\n

Thursday, January 31, 7:30-9pm
\nFilm Screening:<\/strong> \u201cPaper and Stick Thing Film\u201d<\/em>
\nBeautiful, rarely seen film about Ron Resch\u2019s pioneering 1960\u2019s research on mathematical folding and tensegrity structures. Followed by discussion with liberation geometer Jacob Dotson.<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 2, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop:\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong>Mosely Snowflake Sponge Tower #2<\/em>
\n<\/strong>Margaret Wertheim + Christina Simons (Institute For Figuring)
\nConstruction continues on our Snowflake Fractal Tower.<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 9, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop: <\/strong>Mosely Snowflake Sponge Tower #3<\/em>
\nChristina Simons (Institute For Figuring)
\nConstruction continues on our Snowflake Fractal Tower.<\/p>\n

Thursday, February 14, 7:30-9pm
\nFilm Screening:<\/strong> \u201cNot Knot\u201d<\/em>
\nLegendary film from the Minnesota Geometry Center about mathematical knots.
\nFollowed by a discussion with Dr. Francis Bonahon (Chair, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Southern California).<\/p>\n

Saturday, February 16
\n<\/strong>New Year Parade in Chinatown @ 1:00pm
\nWhile celebrating the Year of the Snake in the neighborhood, drop by the IFF to fold for a while.<\/p>\n

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Saturday, February 23, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop:<\/strong> Pleating Parabaloids<\/em>
\nDavid Orozco (Artist, Los Angeles)
\nLearn to pleat paper into parabaloids, geometric surfaces curving in two directions at once.<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 2, 3-6pm
\nWorkshop: <\/strong><\/strong>Weaving platonic solids from bamboo<\/em>
\nJacob Dotson<\/a> (Liberation geometer, Los Angeles)
\nNetworks of polyhedra linked together like 3D spider-webs. Come and learn this beautiful Platonic artform<\/p>\n

ALSO COMING UP IN MARCH:<\/strong> Caltech physicist Dr. Sean Carroll<\/strong> explains particles and fields; UCSD fiber artist Kathryn Harris<\/strong> shows how to bead geometric forms; and Dr. Jeannine Mosely<\/strong> recounts the history of fractal origami.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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