Craft in the Digital Age

Modern digital technologies offer new platforms for designing, testing, and fabricating the physical world. Design technology has become more user-friendly, allowing individuals to use and manipulate the ever-increasing amount of available data. Rapid prototyping and digital fabrication methods have modernized the way people design and make. In this course we will survey the history of craft and how the recent shift from analogue methods to digital production alter our understanding of our world.