Published 30-09-2013
Keywords
- Digital Manufacturing Technologies,
- Digital Crafting,
- 3D Printing,
- Mechanical Reproduction,
- Contemporary Craft
- Machine-Made Products,
- Digitalisation of Manufacturing,
- Rapid Prototyping,
- Knitting,
- Digital Mapping Technology,
- 3D Objects,
- Workshop 2: Crafting with Digital Technologies ...More
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Abstract
The workshop Crafting with digital Technologies took place in September 2013, as part of the Making Futures 3 conference. The following paper reflects on the development of that workshop, and the context it was convened in, in order to discuss why digital crafting is a subject worthy of particular investigation. Through a presentation of the rationale behind the workshop’s scope, this paper presents an outline of what the author sees as the current social trajectory of digitally-aided manufacturing technologies. It will also show how the workshop led to the identification of interesting commonalities which suggest further avenues for research across the range of digital manufacturing technologies.