Post Industrial Manufacturing Research Projects

Description

Undertaken by Paul Atkinson:

"two Post Industrial Manufacturing research projects, Automake and FutureFactories.

Both of these systems utilize computer generated random elements and consumer decision-making processes within flexible schemes defined by a designer and a craftsman/ maker. The results have changed the perceptions of consumers towards the products that they create and the processes of design, as well as their perceptions of their own capabilities. The systems not only liberate the designer from the sterile perfection of the manufactured form, but also free the consumer from the dictatorship of owning identical products. Clearly, Post Industrial Manufacturing systems will change the meaning of design." (http://issuu.com/openp2pdesign/docs/cis.doc_open-design)