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Stacy Jo Scott wrote a new blog post: Unfold interview–the virtual potter’s wheel 1 year, 4 months ago
An interview with Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen of Unfold design studio, the creators of l’Artisan Électronique, a “virtual potter’s wheel”. As a “virtual potter’s wheel” L’Artisan Electronique stands at an interesting cross-roads between materiality and the digital ephemera. It dematerializes the process of creation, separating the maker…[Read more] -
Stacy Jo Scott wrote a new blog post: At-Home 3D Printing and the Return of a Craft Utopia: Part 2 1 year, 8 months ago
In assuming that at-home 3D printing will upset and revolutionize the currently unsustainable corporate-driven marketplace, we are also assuming that those who use this technology will act counter to such forces. This is a big assumption. As we saw in Part 1, even well-known idealists like William Morris suffered from the dichotomy of market…[Read more] -
Stacy Jo Scott wrote a new blog post: At-Home 3D Printing and the Return of a Craft Utopia: Part 1 1 year, 8 months ago
“The Web was just the proof of concept. Now the revolution hits the real world” (Anderson 1). With these words Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine joins Makerbot and RepRap creators and countless breathless bloggers in heralding the dawn of a technology that promises to bring to bear the same force that upturned media industries to [...]
Stacy’s interview is well worth reading. It opens up a new front in the understanding of craft’s relation to digital technology. If it is the irregularity of the handmade that makes it more interesting than the mathematical precision of rapid prototyping, what happens when technology embraces imprecision?