Digital Bespoke? - Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies and the step towards digitally-built objects made to individual specifications.

List of contents

1. The map, the Territory, and the Jeans 2. Definitions 3. A Known Customer 4. The Tailor Online 5. Interfaces between Bodies and Standards 6. Mission Control and Other Considerations 7. The Role of the User in Custom Goods 8. Labour, Bodies, Infrastructure 9. Conclusion/Future

About the author

A researcher, educator, and designer, ginger "all-lower-case" coons studies and intervenes in the intersections of individuality, mass standards, and new production technologies. She is interested in the place of the user in the production process, and how individuals take control of the goods they use. She holds a BFA in design from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and an MI and PhD in information from the University of Toronto. She has been a member of the Critical Making Lab (Toronto, Canada) and the Digital Cultures Research Centre (Bristol, UK), and is now a Principal Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Summary

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies and the step towards digitally-built objects made to individual specifications.

Product details

• Authors: ginger coons, Ginger (Uwe Bristol Coons
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9781032131214
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3213121-4
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Architectural structure & design, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, Architectural structure and design, Architecture: professional practice, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / CAD-CAM