Matthew Gardiner Email & Phone Number

Dr Matthew Gardiner, artist, researcher and pioneer of the convergence of origami, folding and robotics and the inventor of Oribotics. Oribotics is a field of research that thrives on the aesthetic, biomechanic, and morphological connections between nature, origami and robotics. See matthewgardiner.netGardiner’s research-based practice contexts are team-based research collaborations with commercial and research entities; and his artistic practice which draws on experience extending across aesthetic and interactive experience design, parametric origami design, manufacturing, design of new digital fabrication methods, expert-level origami, curation and code. Gardiner’s philosophy on teaching art and design is based on Art Thinking, Design Thinking and Origami Thinking and seeks to allow students to discover methods that are informed by the naturally occurring relationships between concept, handwork & fabrication and social context. His artworks works portray a future wherein folding forms the fundamental fabric of life, and his artistic process explores Folding as Code for Matter, creating works that exhibit material intelligence. He is author of best-selling Everything Origami, Designer Origami and Ultimate Origami.

Listed skills include Art, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Web Design, and 9 others.