Vision

Submissions: (16th)
  Research Summary
  Goal
  Rough Blueprint (design, input, output, materials and mechanism + how it works)
  Impact
  Audience

History of Manufacturing
Industrial Revolutions: 18th Century, 20th Century, 21st Century

  Textile Industry: Began with the art of turning organic materials (grasses & reeds) into usable forms (fabrics: cloths). But near the end of the 18th Century, due to the industrial revolution that had brought on the evolution of machines, the method of producing textiles became larger with its possibilities of mass production.


  Assembly Lines: Began with the idea of producing a product faster for mass production, as the need for instant consumer gratification increased during the late 19th century and into most of the 20th century. This age is also highlighted the emerging fact of the exploitation of natural and synthetic materials (plastics, lighter metals & new alloys).


  Digital Applications: Began with the digitization of information to be electronically kept/used. This became an even faster way to share and utilize information (images, reports & calculations), which began during the 20th century but only now during the 21st century has the accessibility and function of digital applications taken off and spread into various directions (Computer Generated Imaging (CGI), 3D printing & CNC CAD/CAM programming).


New way of looking into the future for product making.
-Design for the individual
-Importance of consumer preferences
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The changes that have been made in production and manufacturing:
-From individual handcrafting to a larger scale of 'One size fits all' motto for mechanical production and manufacturing.
-Then to fit in with the faster paced life production and manufacturing increased speed to suit new lifestyle of era with assembly lines.
-Now lifestyle demands of instant gratification has become possible through realizing digital imagination and fabrication into real life production by the click of a button with 3D printers.

Innovations in Practices, Processes & Products

Problem To Solution (4 Step Plan)
Input:
Data input of capital letters equating to numbers. Each letter number will be how many lines/edges there are to the letter. For example A=3 C=1 M=4 T=2 etc.

Material:
Material used will be a polymorph (polycaprolactone), a plastic the has a low heating point and can be easily mouldable.


Mechanism:
It will a mechanism that injects the material onto a platform of  your choosing through droplets.

Output:
The droplets on the platform will be a visual representation of the word and its letters.



Development of idea:
To further explore the dimentions of the application and visual narration of the design.









Side Notes:
Exploration into various Aspects
  Social/ Society
  Cultural
  Environmental
  Economic
  Science/ Biology
  Engineering

Digital to Physical

Idea of abstraction and distortion of what we know and think is right (Questing the possibilities that exist that can't be changed)

Using a rotating platform
Using Negative space design
Destruction to produce something New
Scuplting