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The second term made use of by practitioners that indicates increased
conceptual and technical skill applied to the innovative use of computer-based
design and fabrication technologies is ‘sophistication’. This was unpacked to
result in three subcategories of distinction. The first of these assigns a value to
the stage in the production cycle (Production Stage - see Table 8) of the objects
within which the use of digital design and fabrication tools are integrated into
the process. The scope of this category applies to the technological aspects of
the conception or design of the objects, the production or fabrication of the
objects and the consumption or reception of the objects by users or an audience.
The researcher has chosen to add more value for each stage that computerbased
technologies are applied within.
Production Stage
Value
Conception 1
Production 1
Consumption 1
Conception & Production 2
Production & Consumption 2
Conception & Consumption 2
Conception & Production &
3
Consumption
Table 8: The stage in the production cycle within which the use of digital design
and fabrication tools are integrated into the process
Since this study is concerned with objects produced by computer-based design
and fabrication technologies, most objects fall into the ‘Conception &
Production’ category by definition. There are exceptions. For example, ‘Dtower’
(Figure 30) a public art piece by architect Lars Spuybroek and artist Q. S.
Serafijn that was commissioned by the city of Doetinchem in the Netherlands.
This work maps and displays the emotions of the local community by changing
colour in response to surveys conducted of fifty local residents on the internet.
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