Terre Mécanique began as an artistic
and material research project with Skylar Tibbits,
Bjorn Sparrman,
and the MIT Self-Assembly Lab,
alongside the early evolution of Rapid Liquid Printing.
Using programmable materials
and large-scale 4D printing,
the work examined how force produces form.
Earlier works used movement,
camera systems,
and performance to study how bodies organize space,
volume,
and duration.
Terre Mécanique extended this inquiry into industrial fabrication
and material behavior,
which later informed the development of Mass Movement.
Together with Elysian Landscapes and the MIT Self-Assembly Lab,
Mass Movement is a co-evolving system of movement research and time-based media,
ecological design,
and programmable material research,
without a single disciplinary lead.
Movement is both method and medium.
The dancer is a biological form,
an accumulation shaped,
like land and water,
by gravity, pressure, and time.
