Digital Fabrication: Body, Object, Enclosure
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Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure draws together emerging topics of making that span primary forms of craftsmanship to digital fabrication in order to theoretically and practically analyze the innovative and interdisciplinary relationship between digital fabrication technology and interior design. The history of making in interior design is aligned with traditional crafts, but a parallel discourse with digital fabrication has yet to be made evident.
This book repositions the praxis of experimental prototyping and integrated technology to show how the use of digital fabrication is inherent to the interior scales of body, objects and enclosure. These three scales act as a central theme to frame contributions that reinforce the interdisciplinary nature of interior design and reinterpret traditional crafts by integrating new methods of making into conventional workflows. Featuring significant international practitioners and researchers, the selected contributions represent the ever-increasing interdisciplinary nature of design, demonstrating a breadth of disciplines.
Contribution: “Materiality and Objecthood: Reflections on the Work of Geoffrey Mann” in Anderson and Weinthal, eds., Digital Fabrication: Body, Object, Enclosure (Routledge, 2022)
Abstract
Scottish artist and designer Geoffrey Mann (born 1980) engages traditional craft techniques whilst simultaneously exploring the possibilities of recent developments in computer-controlled additive methods, such as 3D printing. Working principally in glass, porcelain, and bronze, Mann’s projects explore the social histories of materials and perception. This essay analyzes several recent projects in the context of nineteenth-century experiments in chronophotography undertaken by French polymath Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904), and English-born photographer and inventor Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904). With an emphasis on the utility of material objects to both Marey’s and Muybridge’s investigations, the essay argues that objecthood and materiality are, and will continue to be, pivotal categories for further exploration across the fields of design, philosophy, and the sciences.
About the Book
Edited by Jonathon Anderson and Lois Weinthal
Published by Routledge, 2021
245 pages
ISBN: 978-1000452198
Phillip Denny, “Materiality and Objecthood: Reflections on the Work of Geoffrey Mann” in Anderson and Weinthal, eds., Digital Fabrication: Body, Object, Enclosure (Routledge, 2022)