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Figure 30: ‘D-tower’, 2004. Lars Spuybroek/NOX and Q. S. Serafijn<br />

Also the piece ‘Blusher’ (Figure 31) by architectural collective sixteen*(makers)<br />

which is a responsive gallery-based installation that incorporates embedded<br />

sensing and actuation technologies that changes its configuration based on the<br />

proximity of the audience. Both of these objects were designed by CAD,<br />

fabricated using CNC technologies and interact with their viewers by computerbased<br />

technologies. Therefore, both these objects have digital design and<br />

fabrication technologies integrated at the ‘Conception, Production and<br />

Consumption’ stages.<br />

Figure 31: ‘Blusher’, 2001. sixteen*(makers)<br />

The next subcategory of the ‘sophistication’ of an object is the level to which<br />

computer-based design and fabrication technologies have been integrated<br />

within a given practitioner’s practice. To do this the researcher has applied the<br />

phasing developed from the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow (ACOT) project<br />

(see section 3.6.1). This model is an evolutionary model divided into five<br />

phases, i.e. Entry, Adoption, Adaptation, Appropriation and Invention.<br />

Traditional methods are initially challenged by the introduction of technology<br />

and then gradually transformed by it. In early versions of the application of this<br />

model to the objects in the data set the researcher found that often determining<br />

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