The Digital Bespoke?
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The Digital Bespoke?

Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Digital Bespoke?

Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization

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About This Book

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specifications. The author argues that the modes of customization offered by digital fabrication and mass production have more in common with their industrial predecessors than with craft-based customization.

Using case studies of historical and current practices from Europe, Africa, and North America to ground her theory, she investigates where digital fabrication technologies have developed from and how their uses differ from existing modes of production. Digital fabrication and mass customization are concepts encompassing broad ecosystems of technologies and practices. Both are increasingly implemented and hyped. As such, it is imperative to address not just their potential, but their challenges.

Written for a scholarly audience and for design practitioners concerned with the social and political impacts of digital fabrication and mass customization, this book will be a useful reference point for students and researchers in digital and analogue design, technology, and material culture.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2021
ISBN
9781000475449
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Preface
  10. 1 The map, the territory, and the jeans
  11. 2 Definitions
  12. 3 A known customer
  13. 4 The tailor online
  14. 5 Interfaces between bodies and standards
  15. 6 Mission control and other considerations
  16. 7 The role of the user in custom goods
  17. 8 Labour, bodies, infrastructure
  18. 9 Conclusion/future
  19. Appendix I: Glossary
  20. Appendix II: Configurator walk-throughs
  21. Appendix III: Interview guide from Toronto-phase 3D PrintAbility interviews
  22. Index