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identifies with the Design community). The address of this practitioners’
website is indicated (http://www.futurefactories.com/). There is a space for any
additional descriptive information about the object (Notes – nothing here in this
case because extensive information is recorded elsewhere about this project).
The approximate scale of the objects is stated (Furniture). And that each object
consists of a combination of parts (Assembly) is registered and given a value (2).
This value is also restated as the indicator of the complexity of the objects so
calculations can be performed with this category. The stage in the production
cycle within which the use of digital design and fabrication technologies is
integrated into the process is pointed out. This project was generated digitally
by using algorithms which evolve structures and objects based on
predetermined rules, conditions and variables. It has been output using SLS®
technology. Therefore the design of the objects and the fabrication of the
objects are indicated and given a value (Conception & Production 2). The
technological reception of these objects by users or an audience could have been
included in this case as the physical objects were shown alongside a screen onto
which the rule-based, parametric metamorphosis of the chair design was rearprojected
in real-time. However, the researcher chose not to include this aspect
of the project as it served to act more as documentation of the process of making
rather than an integral component of the work. This value is also restated as the
indicator of the stages of production that utilise computer-based design and
fabrication technologies.
The level to which computer-based design and fabrication technologies have
been integrated within the practitioner’s practice is recorded. This
practitioner’s practice can be defined by computer-based technologies. Dean is
exploring innovative applications beyond the application of these technologies
within a conventional industrial context. Therefore the relevant category is
indicated and given a value (Appropriation-Invention 3). This value is also
restated as a separate category to indicate the adoption level of the objects.
These objects are fully functional as chairs. However, presented in the
exhibition they act as a static focus for the aesthetic contemplation of the viewer.
Both the user and the object are agents for each other. However, only the user is
a subject in this relationship. Therefore the relevant category of user-object
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