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From To Reference
Expensive Technology
(More) Less-expensive
Technology
(see section 2.1)
Manufacturing Making (see section 2.1)
Centralised Design Distributed Design (see section 2.7)
Standardised Production Personalised Production (see section 2.7)
Disciplinary Transdisciplinary (see section 2.8)
Communities of Practice Communities of Interest (see section 2.8.3)
Tools for Productivity
Tools for
Experimentation
(see section 2.6.1)
Artists or Designers Hybrid Practitioners (see section 2.9)
Aesthetic Contemplation Interactivity (see section 2.9.5)
Parts Systems (see section 4.2.1)
Table 19: Observed trends from conventional models of practice towards
characteristics of a ‘technology-led practice’
These ‘technology-led practitioners’ are actively investigating and exploiting
computer technologies to achieve innovation. The research has shown there are
practitioners working that consider their work to ‘blur the conventional
boundaries of art and design practice’ (see section 4.4). However, the
practitioners contacted for this study were not definite in their support of the
proposition that this represents a trend towards a new hybrid art and design
discipline. Although they would support the notion that computer-based tools
were increasing their opportunities for a more economically sustainable
practice.
This study proposed that collectively these practitioners working across
disciplinary ‘perimeters, boundaries and borders’ might form a community of
interest that shares a common technology-based discourse that exists in the
space between conventional, creative disciplines. The researcher has pointed to
computer-based tools as the basis for a ‘Lingua Franca’ - a common language -
through which a synthesis of formal vocabulary, methods and knowledge can
happen for these practitioners. The research has presented how the artifacts
made by these practitioners - as ‘boundary objects’ - can perform as a means of
coordination and alignment across disciplines and as a means of translation
between them. The work happening between disciplines has also been shown to
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