From Movies to Moving In: Just-in-Time Manufacturing, Powered by 3D Printing

Presentation by Julia Koerner, Founder JK3D at JK Design GmbH and Associate Adjunct Professor UCLA AUD as part of Altair's Future.Industry 2024 conference.

Julia Koerner will present her remarkable projects in fashion, product design and architecture, which are rethinking design towards a new future and are exhibited worldwide in renowned museum collections. Her brand JK3D focuses on local, on demand, just in time production and the sourcing of local materials while at the same time implementing digital design workflows. This enables her to build upon novel digital aesthetics while also having a positive impact on our cultural heritage, society and environment. Julia Koerner will showcase her collaborations with Haute Couture Fashion Houses in Paris as well as her cutting edge collaborations with the Hollywood movie industry, such as Marvel’s Academy Award winning films Black Panther and Wakanda Forever. In addition to recent technology collaborations with 3D printing companies such as Stratasys innovating on textile 3D printing and Swarovski’s early research on 3D printing with glass and further her award winning architecture design "Cactus Homes" for affordable housing for ICON Build's Initiative 99. Julia Koerner will alao touch upon her academic career teaching for more than a decade at the top public University in the US, University of California Los Angeles, where she holds an Associate Adjunct Professor position and is the Director of Summer Programs.