Paper title: |
Advanced Praxis: Synthesizing Digital and Craft in Design |
Authors: |
Stewart, Tonya; Kevin Sweet |
Summary: |
Digital fabrication practices have allowed for a level of exactitude and precision unattainable by the designer’s hand. While the design community has benefited tremendously from developments in technology, certain qualities reflective of craft have been lost as a result of the overwhelming dependency on computer-based processes. In order to reinvigorate a sense of craft and personal expression into design, modalities of education must evolve to incorporate these characteristics with contemporary digital techniques. By combining craft, digital tools and collaborative efforts a new breed of designer will emerge – one that finds a personal voice in a globalized world. This paper outlines these issues as they were explored in an experimental design studio that focused on the integration of craft with digital fabrication methods that included both students of graphic design and architecture. |
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Year of publication: |
2009 |
Keywords: |
digital fabrication; cross-disciplinary; design pedagogy |
Series: |
CUMINCADes:SIGRADI |
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Citation: |
Stewart, Tonya; Kevin Sweet (2009).
Advanced Praxis: Synthesizing Digital and Craft in Design. SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 16-18, 2009,
http://itc.scix.net/paper/sigradi2009_1195
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