Engineering and Technology

Use wind to power a motor and light an LED.

Follow the process of revitalizing the Buchanan Mall in the Western Addition.

Explore the anatomy and evolution of Theo Jansen's strandbeests.

Join curator Marina McDougall for a conversation with photographer Lena Herzog.

Explore the creative process behind Theo Jansen's extraordinary strandbeests.

Join Theo Jansen and watch the strandbeests come alive.

Bulk up your understanding of the "muscles" that move Theo Jansen's strandbeests.

Be mesmerized by the PVC structure that allows Strandbeests to walk.

Experience strandbeests, kinetic sculptures that blur the lines between art, machine, and life.

Get a glimpse of artist and physicist Theo Jansen's strandbeests.

Who designs the strandbeests—Theo Jansen, or the PVC tubes themselves?