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40. If so, what role if any does technology play in this?
Practitioner 1 No answer.
Practitioner 2 In design it’ll be very similar; people doing things in nontechnological
way, but the main innovations are going to
relate to what’s possible or how people are able to use
technology.
Practitioner 3 They determine a lot about what the pieces are like and that’s
the reason we use them.
Practitioner 4 It’s a very central role and it’s a central crossover point it’s
allowing people to move from one area into another
because there are common technologies starting to
emerge or similar technologies or tools which they can use in
one discipline that they can transfer to another.
Practitioner 5 I think technology is a catalyst at this point, but as we
discussed earlier, maybe in ten years time the technology will
be something different, but it’s never going to stand still. It’s
helping how it’s emerging, but 100 years ago a kick wheel
was the latest tech but now it’s traditional.
Practitioner 6 Digital technologies do open up the potential for new
practices through the creation of data which can be used
for a variety of applications and to control widely differing
forms of output device. The ability to transmit data quickly
and accurately also opens up new forms of working
practice. However for me the useful, interesting, successful
and/or convincing applications of digital technologies do
tend to come from people who have concentrated in a
particular field of practice.
The practitioners were asked if they thought there is a trend towards an
emerging, hybrid discipline and what role if any technology plays in this. Only 2
(33%) of the practitioners were definitive in their support of this proposition.
However, the practitioners were more confident in supporting the notion that
technologies were increasing opportunities in this prospective area. Existing
academic structures were identified by 1 (17%) practitioner as an impediment to
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