Abstract
This paper focuses on the growing field of creative practice that aligns physical and digital spaces, processes and experiences. This field recognises the potential for heightening human expression and sensibility through practice that engages multi-disciplinary, hybrid approaches taken from computing, engineering, e-textiles, craft and design. Craft practice is explored within a broader field of making, which in this research, is applied to the design of responsive objects in a move towards more nuanced, empathetic interfaces. The situated body is central to comprehending the nature of experience, as we perceive the world through multiple sensory modes. Key commentators have framed an engagement with felt human life, leveraging its expression as a vehicle for enhanced relations with technology. Our physical sensorium is mirrored in the apparatus of technological systems that utilise artificial sensing, affective or cognitive schemas, and are a central influence on the development of embodied technological practices. Undertaking a making practice generates artefacts, which respond to these contexts. Firsthand involvement in a hybrid making practice by the researcher builds a rich body of work that contributes experience and tacit knowledge of digital craft principles. Textile structures are combined with computational capability to create micro, self-contained control systems that afford temporal, interactive form. Collaborative strategies and co-creation are central to the practice, sharing ideas, material contributions and dialogue during making processes. Methods evolve as a continual negotiation between intention, action and impulse revealing practice as a series of interconnected relationships that move between disciplines, contributors and skill.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2017.123
Citation
Hernandez, L.(2017) Uncovering Digital Craft Methods in the Design of Enhanced Objects and Surfaces, in Elvin Karana, Elisa Giaccardi, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristina Niedderer, Serena Camere (eds.), Alive. Active. Adaptive. International Conference on Experiential Knowledge and Emerging Materials, 19-20 June 2017, Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2017.123
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Uncovering Digital Craft Methods in the Design of Enhanced Objects and Surfaces
This paper focuses on the growing field of creative practice that aligns physical and digital spaces, processes and experiences. This field recognises the potential for heightening human expression and sensibility through practice that engages multi-disciplinary, hybrid approaches taken from computing, engineering, e-textiles, craft and design. Craft practice is explored within a broader field of making, which in this research, is applied to the design of responsive objects in a move towards more nuanced, empathetic interfaces. The situated body is central to comprehending the nature of experience, as we perceive the world through multiple sensory modes. Key commentators have framed an engagement with felt human life, leveraging its expression as a vehicle for enhanced relations with technology. Our physical sensorium is mirrored in the apparatus of technological systems that utilise artificial sensing, affective or cognitive schemas, and are a central influence on the development of embodied technological practices. Undertaking a making practice generates artefacts, which respond to these contexts. Firsthand involvement in a hybrid making practice by the researcher builds a rich body of work that contributes experience and tacit knowledge of digital craft principles. Textile structures are combined with computational capability to create micro, self-contained control systems that afford temporal, interactive form. Collaborative strategies and co-creation are central to the practice, sharing ideas, material contributions and dialogue during making processes. Methods evolve as a continual negotiation between intention, action and impulse revealing practice as a series of interconnected relationships that move between disciplines, contributors and skill.