Making a Difference/ A Difference of Making, Bozar

Surveying three decades of 3D-printing, Bozar has teamed up Belgian industry leader Materalise (celebrating its 25-anniversary) and curator Marta Malé-Almany to present Making A Difference/ A Difference in Making. With such a paradoxical yet playful title, this exhibition looks at all pluralistic aspects of the groundbreaking technology – a tool that can both foster peace and war, act as a means and outcome – while analyzing its implications on  individual, societal and environmental levels. By showing how 3D-printing has most recently engaged new modes of material and function – be it bio-plastics or even natural wood and ceramics – Making A Difference/ A Difference in Making presents everything from scaffolding that can assist nature, as in Tomas Libertiny’s The Gate – allowing bees to create hives on human-scale arches, or made-to-measure prostheses. The offering also explores high-end applications such as like Dror’s collapsible Volume.MGX lamp or Patrick Jouin’s Creating Complexity, Non-Assembly Required stool – both produced by MGX, Materialise’s design branch – but also the role of open source, cross-disciplinary and user-centered models.

The exhibtion logo plays on its anagram-like title.

O98XYZ by Earl Stewart © Earl Stewart

One Shot by Patrick Jouin © Thomas Duval

  Helix Tripod, based on a drawing by Giambattista Piranesi Actum ©Arte and Fondazione Giorgio Cini Onlus

CaCO3 Stoneware by Laura Lynn Jansen and Thomas Vailly © Floor Knaapen

Fractal.MGX by Jan Wertel © Stéphane Briolant

Making A Difference/ A Difference a Making run till 7 June.