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the detriment of the latter. As tutors we should be aware of prioritising
knowledge over craft. Finally, many of these issues have come out of the Bureau
for European Design Associations. Designers, design students and design
practitioners are asked to trawl through vast seas of data, information and
knowledge and help create even more data, knowledge and information and
how best can we as designers create environments to manipulate or utilise those
vast amounts of data, knowledge and information in a creative way.
9.2 Tavs Jørgensen
Tavs Jørgensen’s projects merge traditional methods in furniture making,
ceramics and foundry work with new technologies such as rapid prototyping,
digitising and motion capture. The aesthetics of his work reflect the
construction process used to make them. Jørgensen is currently Research
Fellow in 3D Digital Production at the Autonomatic Research Cluster,
University College Falmouth, where he is exploring new interfaces between
human gesture and computer-aided design (CAD)/computer-aided
manufacturing (CAM).
Tavs Jørgensen
www.oktavius.co.uk
We’ve already seen a bit of ceramics and I have to confess that is also my
background - I am a potter by trade. But a few years ago I got interested in the
digital tools that were becoming available for us to create. These present such
fantastic possibilities and offer an array of different ways of creating and give
such creative opportunities that certainly as a potter I find incredibly exciting.
However, there are also things about the practice of working with material and
form directly, intuitively and physically which is still valuable. My research is
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