{"product_id":"mixed-reality-fabrication-9781638401902","title":"Mixed Reality Fabrication","description":"\u003cb\u003eMixed Reality Fabrication challenges the conventional focus on automation\u003cbr\u003eand precision in digital fabrication, instead advocating for approaches\u003cbr\u003ethat bridge the gap between digital design and the wide tolerances, \u003cbr\u003eimprovisation and non-uniform materials common to traditional craft\u003cbr\u003epractices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis book promotes a humanist philosophy of technology, emphasizing the value\u003cbr\u003eof human labour, craft traditions, and local adaptation while revealing\u003cbr\u003eopportunities for reduced documentation complexity, accelerated\u003cbr\u003eknowledge transfer, waste reduction, and increased design freedom.\u003cbr\u003eMaking by hand in mixed reality opens up a broad space of designs\u003cbr\u003echaracterized by stochasticity, formed curves, networks and field conditions\u003cbr\u003ethat would otherwise be impractical to draw and build.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeveral case-study projects from the scale of sculptural pieces to small\u003cbr\u003epavilions illustrate how working within immersive mixed reality\u003cbr\u003eenvironments can empower skilled craftspeople to realize complex digital\u003cbr\u003edesigns through subjective interpretation of simple digital models, and\u003cbr\u003edemonstrates the potential of mixed reality to reshape the relationship\u003cbr\u003ebetween designing and making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Actar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781638401902\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Gwyllim Jahn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750031814837,"sku":"9781638401902","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mixed-reality-fabrication-9781638401902","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}