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Slit-Folding

The publication in the Book Origami8 entitled "Slit-Folding—Actuating Curved Creases by Closing Tailored Openings" by R. Foschi, R. Maleczek, K. Mundilova, S. Nishimoto, and T. Tachi. has been published

Applied folded tubes for curved folding

The publication in the Book Origami8 entitled „Applied folded tubes for curved folding“ by M. Bernhard, G. Lobe, R. Maderebner, R. Maleczek, and C. Preisinger. has been published in January 2026!

QuadFold @ IHF2025

QUADFOLD applied folding for timber plates The QuadFold @ IHF An experience in folding thin wooden plates.Inspired by students, supported by research and theFFG, fabricated by experts. Finally assembled andactuated…

Lecture at GCD 2025

On November 28 i gave a talk at the GCD Symposium in Vienna Austria about Fabrication-Driven Scaling Strategies for Curved folds.

AAG 2025 Boston Workshop

Happy to Part of the Workshop at the AAG2025 on "Design and Manufacturing of Cellular Origami for Architecture", together with Alfonso Parra Rubio, Tomohiro Tachi, Erik Demaine, Daiki Kanaoka, Riccardo…

GCD25 – Workshop

Very proud to be part of the GCD25 Workshop on Pressure Based Motion. From November 24-28 at the TU Vienna together with the GCD, the ACD and the TachiLab!

T-Umbrella @ IASS2025

At the IASS Conference 2025 in Mexico City the "T-Umbrella: a case study for an inflatable rigid-ruling curved folding mechanism" project was exhibited and presented by Clemens Preisinger.

Fold and Snap – Flatpacking a wooden Beam

Joint Paper and Presentation @IASS2024 Zurich, with Marcus Bernhard, Roland Maderebner and Clemens Preisinger. Made Possible bythe research project “Plates2Structures-THINK.WOOD.Innovation” (FFG No.: 907048) - Funding Association of Austria (FFG) and…

Lecture @ 7OSME

Rupert will present his collaborative research at the 7OSME in Oxford.

Lecture @ IASS2018

Rupert will give a lectureon July 16th at the IASS 2018 in Cambridge about his current research project on curved folded wooden structures. He is also part of the SMG…