https://www.mattdonovan.ca/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-23 https://www.mattdonovan.ca/about daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.mattdonovan.ca/work daily 1.0 2026-03-27 https://www.mattdonovan.ca/work/industrial-design monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/1bf20312-c840-44f3-b26e-d54d32d68f03/RCweb.jpg The Work - /Industrial design The Robotic Chair (Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea, and Matt Donovan) is an autonomous robot that collapses into six separate pieces, then drives across the floor to reassemble itself and stand upright—only to fall apart again and repeat the performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/478eb33b-4c1f-449b-9c52-1b26f5440ac3/RTweb.jpg The Work - /Industrial design The Robotic Table (Max Dean and Raffaello D’Andrea) is an autonomous robot that attempts to have a relationship with visitors through movement. I was responsible for the mechanical design and fabrication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/c66a1b0b-96e2-474f-badb-fac94eb88591/BCweb.jpg The Work - /Industrial design The Balancing Cube is an autonomous robot that balances on a point. It was produced as part of a masters level project class at ETH Zurich. I consulted with students around mechanical design and fabrication issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/11a6a96e-c10f-43fa-87c5-7135539b36d1/DFAweb.jpg The Work - /Industrial design The Distributed Flight Array is a group of autonomous robots that can fall apart, reconfigure themselves, and take flight again. It was produced as part of a masters level project class at ETH Zurich. I consulted with students around mechanical design and fabrication issues. https://www.mattdonovan.ca/work/design monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/785f702f-5f56-4a1a-8180-531303d570c6/IMG_3866.jpg The Work - /Design work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/44874f7b-8a84-4e2a-b5e0-6eff38c9955c/IMG_3867.jpg The Work - /Design work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/8d4dd523-6797-4250-9713-c104598c6e03/IMG_3868.jpg The Work - /Design work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/788ae3c1-b4c8-44dd-bc32-27f3f3c7cd97/IMG_3870.jpg The Work - /Design work https://www.mattdonovan.ca/work/collaborative monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/55968706-e65b-49a6-ab36-fcaec069104d/Impressions.jpg The Work - /Collaborative artwork Impressions (2005-2018) is an installation consisting of two opposing walls, each with a single column of text in which the two sides of an argument are deconstructed and intertwined into a mirrored set of low and high relief text. Each wall is a mould of the other, and the dialectic becomes decipherable only by considering both sides together. With text adapted from Plato’s Pheadrus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/6fdb519d-7641-43af-977b-a208272514dd/Landscape.jpg The Work - /Collaborative artwork Landscape (2012) is an installation consisting of many words suspended in space such that when a viewer stands at the ideal vantage point, they perceive a perfectly justified block of text on the gallery wall. With text adapted from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/da73dc6f-bc51-45d1-bef7-59ab6c5c3bb4/RustGarden.jpg The Work - /Collaborative artwork Rustgarden (2018) consists of 707,349 steel letters representing every single character from Hugh MacLennan’s 1945 novel Two Solitudes, a CanLit classic hailed as the first novel to explore the dual Canadian identity. Designed to be walked on, touched and rearranged, the artwork asks us to reinterpret Two Solitudes in a contemporary context that is at once personal and political: to redefine for ourselves what it means to be Canadian today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/0777f4b6-6d9d-4611-ac3f-3a424e6fe89d/Listen.jpg The Work - /Collaborative artwork Listen (2023) is a site-specific installation that first appears as a jumble of upside-down words rising from the Museum’s infinity pool. Those who search for the right vantage point will see the words align, revealing a hidden phrase reflected in the water. The work draws from a line attributed to Rumi: “There is a voice that does not use words. Listen.” It invites viewers to pause, shift perspective, and discover meaning that emerges only through stillness and attention. https://www.mattdonovan.ca/work/lego monthly 0.5 2026-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/7e9b8d92-413b-4557-ab6c-16868f7b670c/Bubblegum.JPG The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/9053f081-3c0a-4196-a7e4-3d28ab66250a/GreenWave.jpg The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/1758649905197-7XA2GWA9ROA8T6WGZOZ7/Weave_TurquiseBluePink.png The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/0052925d-6a07-44bf-a3b5-86603ff3393f/MS_logo.JPG The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/d019b727-d6a6-4071-95cb-da1335afad3c/Ladybugs.jpg The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/5e972a68-d89f-4cc5-8846-adac18ac62f6/Monarchs.jpg The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/06145b20-b805-47e6-8671-63f35883e0a3/Honeybees.jpg The Work - /Lego artwork https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68d1b1e46c193507a287ef22/956f92a8-f88c-4336-b668-9fe5c74aa4ae/DigitalWave3.jpg The Work - /Lego artwork