Twenty-first Century Manufacture
24th Mar 2011; 18:00
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RSA Design Debate
The new technologies of designing and manufacturing promise to reinvigorate local production and to put a rapid prototype, a custom object and a perfect-fit within the reach of millions who never called themselves a designer or craftsman. But do enough of us know enough design to transform this promise into a manufacturing renaissance? While these new ways of making advance the interests of commercial manufacturers and craft hobbyists, do they also answer a universal human need to fabricate?Assa Ashuach presents a digital tool under development which allows anyone to specify 3-D objects within parameters set by the designer. Designer Sebastian Conran, open innovation entrepreneur, facilitator and author Roland Harwood and additive manufacturing expert Neil Hopkinson join the panel discussion.
Chair: Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of a new RSA Design & Society pamphlet 'The New Tin Ear: materials, manufacturing and the rise of the user-maker'.
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RSA Pamphlet
The New Tin Ear: Manufacturing, Materials and the Rise of the User-Maker
Hugh Aldersey-Williams, 2011
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