Reinterpreting da Vinci: Precise Is More

Students from the Escola Superior de Design. Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave (IPCA) in Barcelos (Portugal) and EINA students, worked together on the workshop “Precise Is More” (PIM), held during the second week of July, to work on the importance of achieving the technical aspects of design from a creative and historical mindset.

This workshop is the result of the collaboration between the two organisations to develop innovation in teaching as part of a global strategy of continuous growth in the quality of teaching.

The students had to design a structure or artefact that would reinterpret one of Leonardo da Vinci’s many weapons inventions: the catapult, and study the parabolic movement that this design causes in the development of a projectile when launched by the machine that they have created.

The structure was exhibited and tested to see how it worked on the last day of the workshop, Friday 31 July. The students had to calculate the exact location of the catapult they created to ensure that the projectiles always fell on the surface of the fountain at the entrance to EINA in the Jardins de Can Sentmenat.

“Precise Is More”, led by Raúl Oliva, teacher of Physics Applied to Design and the Introduction to Physics on the Bachelor's Degree in Design, will be taking over the workshop “Slower Is More” (SIM) held in Barcelos in January 2018.