Episode 8: Marko Ahtisaari, CEO of The Sync Project & Nadya Peek, researcher at MIT

Nadya Peek is a leading researcher on digital fabrication. She is about to start as a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. Nadya is working towards a world where manufacturing is as accessible to individuals as computing is today. Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project that is developing music as precision medicine. Previously he worked as the head of design at Nokia.

They met at a CNC milling machine at Massachusetts Institute of Technology a few years ago and started sharing ideas around manufacturing - and then decided to form a band called Construction. Nadya and Marko threw a gig during Helsinki Design Week and kindly agreed to join us for a podcast. Although personal digital fabrication is not yet accessible for the common people as such, are we on the verge of a revolution? What is the role of human design in it? Marko and Nadya share their insights and tell us how to get started if you get excited about digital manufacturing. They also tell the story of how did the two of them end up forming a band.