4D Printing, Volume 1: Between Disruptive Research and Industrial Applications

Any time objects and their (self-)organization are to be put into use,  their models and methods of thinking as well as their designing and  manufacturing need to be reinvented.

4D printing is a future  technology that is capable of bringing 3D objects to life. This ability,  which gives objects the power to change shape or properties over time  through energy stimulation from active materials and additive  manufacturing, makes it possible to envisage technological breakthroughs  while challenging the relationship between people and objects.

4D  Printing 1 presents the different facets of this technology, providing  an objective, critical and even disruptive viewpoint to enable its  existence and development, and to stimulate the creative drive that  industry, society and humanity need in the perpetual quest for evolution  and transformation.