The Joy of Tensegrity Construction: Video Class and Kit

A Video and Hands-On Class and mail-order kit for Crafters, Spatial Medicine People, & Movement Enthusiasts.

Recorded from a live 3-Hour Workshop via Zoom.

About the Class

Join us to transform your understanding of movement & structure in this recorded masterclass. You will build your own tensegrity structures with our newly minted, 36-strut tensegrity kit. You'll make mind-bending ‘floating’ structures that demonstrate interconnected kinetics and fundamental structural principles found at every scale of biology. Tensegrity is everywhere!

Beginners and experienced builders alike are welcome.

What you’ll learn

• Foundational principles of tensegrity physics and geometry (spoiler: it was SPIRALS all along)
• Step-by-step guidance through multiple structure variations including how to make:
  • Mobile structures
  • Stable structures AND
  • how to COMBINE the two
  • plus! how to make virtually any known polyhedron
• Applications in art, biomechanics, movement therapy, and structural design
• Real-time troubleshooting and personalized feedback

In the Kit

• Minimo Kinetics latest 36-Strut TensegriBones Construction Kit featuring:
  • Patent-pending assembly method that makes tensegrity construction easier than ever before
  • A charming travel-sack for storage and transport

Your Instructor

Howdy, I’m Mike.

I’m an award-winning puppet artist with 18 years of experience creating collaborative events and objects that move with uncanny dynamism. As an inventor with two pending patents, I believe I've developed an intuitive system for building tensegrity structures—making complex concepts accessible to nearly anyone.

My journey from "supposedly smart kid with grades that claimed otherwise" to artist/product designer/engineer has been fueled by an intense desire to break down barriers to understanding. I sure didn't invent tensegrity (nature did that), but I've created a method that makes these endlessly fascinating structures a joy to build, to touch, and to play with.

My goal? To put these fundamental, but under-explored, principles into our hands— to gain a shared understanding of how our material existence is knit together. All this in the hope to build a more sustainable, balanced, and dynamic relationship with the structures and systems within and around us.

Ready to Transform Your Understanding?

Questions?  Email me here.