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Craft & the Digital World
A passion for working with materials and processes is fundamental to craft. Makers – quick to explore, transform and create new materials and processes – are early adopters in the material world: studio glass furnaces, knitting machines, paper clay and the new sustainable composite materials profiled here, are all part of an ongoing tradition of maker-led innovation.
But what happens when makers’ work takes them beyond traditional craft materials – clay, wood, fabric – and into the realm of post-industrial, digital manufacturing and communication technologies?
In this briefing note, issued in the week of the FutureEverything conference, we look at how makers are harnessing digital tools ranging from rapid prototyping and Quick Response (QR) codes to Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) and augmented reality, to push the boundaries of both the physical and the digital worlds.
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