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FABCRAFT explores the intersection of advanced digitalfabrication methods, informed by computational design, with traditionalcraft-based practices. Traditional craft-based methods of production such asweaving and basket-making share a common trait with 21st century design andfabrication methodologies; they arebased on Procedural, Bottom- Up Component Strategies, combining many smallpieces or operations into a unified whole. While twentieth century constructionand product design methods relied on standardized “tooling” for production ofidentical parts in assembly-line processes, twenty-first century design andproduction practices increasingly embrace the possibilities afforded bycomputationally derived forms and robotic or “CNC” computer controlledfabrication capable of modeling, sequencing, cutting and even assemblingthousands of unique individual parts into a structurally optimized complexgeometric assemblage.
FABCRAFT explores the intersection of advanced digitalfabrication methods, informed by computational design, with traditionalcraft-based practices. Traditional craft-based methods of production such asweaving and basket-making share a common trait with 21st century design andfabrication methodologies; they arebased on Procedural, Bottom- Up Component Strategies, combining many smallpieces or operations into a unified whole. While twentieth century constructionand product design methods relied on standardized “tooling” for production ofidentical parts in assembly-line processes, twenty-first century design andproduction practices increasingly embrace the possibilities afforded bycomputationally derived forms and robotic or “CNC” computer controlledfabrication capable of modeling, sequencing, cutting and even assemblingthousands of unique individual parts into a structurally optimized complexgeometric assemblage.
Increasingly, architects and designers are criticallyengaging these new technologies to both re-assess and re-think the trajectoriesof modern design, embracing both craft and computation.
The unanticipatedresult of this approach is a new “open-source” collective intelligence, relyingincreasingly not on machine intelligence, but rather on human interaction andinnovation, across previously unrelated disciplines.
- Text Courtesy of Santiago Perez
- Text Courtesy of Santiago Perez
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