The Digital Bespoke? - Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2022
Authors:	ginger coons
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	172
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-22129-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Product design Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-22129-2
Barcode:	9780367221294

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