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Category<br />

Image<br />

Result<br />

Title<br />

Holy Ghost<br />

Date 2006<br />

Image Source<br />

PBB_Dean.jpg<br />

Code<br />

PBB<br />

Maker<br />

FutureFactories<br />

Discipline<br />

Design<br />

Website<br />

http://www.futurefactories.com/<br />

Notes<br />

Scale<br />

Furniture<br />

Structure Assembly 2<br />

Complexity 2<br />

Production Stage Conception & Production 2<br />

Production 2<br />

Technological Adoption Appropriation Invention 3<br />

Adoption 3<br />

User Object Relationship Reciprocal User 2<br />

Relationship 2<br />

Sophistication 7<br />

Total 9<br />

Tools<br />

SLS®<br />

Enterprise<br />

Non-commercial<br />

Designed Object<br />

Generative<br />

Table 12: A sample of the information stored in the object database<br />

To illustrate how this formalised system of analysis works when applied to a<br />

specific object there now follows the example of Lionel T. Dean’s ‘Holy Ghost’<br />

commissioned for the ‘PBB’ exhibition (Table 12). The first ten categories<br />

record descriptive information about the object or objects. This includes an<br />

image of the object, the title (‘Holy Ghost’) of the work and the date (2006) it<br />

was produced. The file name of the indicative image was recorded<br />

(PBB_Dean.jpg). An indication of the source of the object was also recorded<br />

(PBB for the ‘Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders’ exhibition). The name of the<br />

practitioner is also recorded (FutureFactories is the name of Dean’s company)<br />

and an indication of their disciplinary background (Lionel T. Dean primarily<br />

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