{"id":582,"date":"2010-09-07T03:50:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T03:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/582-lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:58:42","slug":"lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft","title":{"rendered":"Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Max Fraser in partnership with the Crafts Council, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftscouncil.org.uk\/collection-and-exhibitions\/exhibitions\/touring-exhibitions\/view\/digital-craft\">Lab Craft<\/a>: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft will look at the use of technology as an extension to the capabilities of the human hand at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tentlondon.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tent London<\/a> as part of the <b>London Design Festival<\/b>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1780 --><!-- s9ymdb:1780 --><\/p>\n<p><i>Lab Craft will challenge the relationship between the hand and machine in contemporary craft. It will focus on tangible outcomes through the examination of new practice, while exploring the impact of technology within craft practice and will feature the work of 26 designers including Tord Boontje and Michael Eden. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1781 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dzn_Lab-Craft-at-Tent-London-22.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1782 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dzn_Lab-Craft-at-Tent-London-92.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This exploration of the tensions between craft and digital design is something that is also being discussed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designandcraft2010.be\/\" target=\"_blank\">Design and Craft : a History of Convergences and Divergences<\/a> to be held in Brussels on the 20-22nd of September, 2010, immediately prior to the London Design Festival. <\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1783 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dzn_Lab-Craft-at-Tent-London-12.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1784 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dzn_Lab-Craft-at-Tent-London-82.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:1785 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/dzn_Lab-Craft-at-Tent-London-32.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\"><\/p>\n<p>I would love to know your take on the term &#8216;Craft&#8217; in relation to digitally fabricated items?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Is it it still craft if the makers hand does not touch the raw material, tool or even the end product?<\/p>\n<p>How do you see your role? as a digital maker? 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CG Artist?<\/p>\n<p>Images from top to bottom from Lynne MacLachlan, Assa Ashuach, Michael Eden, Justin Marshall and Liam Hopkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curated by Max Fraser in partnership with the Crafts Council, Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft will look at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,478],"tags":[480,482,477],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shapeways","category-community","tag-4-art","tag-6-inspiration","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft - Shapeways Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Curated by Max Fraser in partnership with the Crafts Council, Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft will look at the use of technology as an\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Duann\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Duann\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/#\/schema\/person\/848d6ff12be3ccf4dc1dcd672000dc28\"},\"headline\":\"Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft\",\"datePublished\":\"2010-09-07T03:50:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-03T16:58:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft\"},\"wordCount\":221,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"keywords\":[\"Art\",\"Inspiration\",\"What's Hot\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Shapeways\",\"The Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/prodshapeblog.wpenginepowered.com\/lab-craft-digital-adventures-in-contemporary-craft\",\"name\":\"Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft - 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