The Digital Crafting Network

Good building culture traditionally relied on a sharing of knowledge between design practice and craft. The architect received crafts training and the craftsman was understood as an established part of the knowledge chain of building. In Scandinavia in particular this tie has led to an internationally renowned building culture based firmly on a deep understanding of craft, detail and material and resulting in high architectural quality. Where industrialisation created fundamental rifts in this knowledge sharing focusing on standardisation and mass production, the recent development of computer controlled fabrication enables a new focus on the highly specified and the customised.

The research network investigates how new digital production methods are instigating profound changes in the design and building of architecture. Developing the term digital crafting, the network examines how the maturing of interfaces between the design space of the architect and the production space of the manufacturer is leading to the shaping of a new material practice in architecture.

The Digital Crafting Blog

More infos on the currentt activities within the networks activities can be found in the digitalcrafting blog http://www.digitalcrafting.dk.

The research network is supported by:
The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities.

Organisers:
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Claus Peder Pedersen
Martin Tamke

Participants:
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts – School of Architecture – Centre for IT and Architecture (CITA)
Aarhus School of Architecture
Kolding School of Design
Technical University of Denmark
Danish Technological Institute
The Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory