The Digital Bespoke?: Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization

The Digital Bespoke? is about mass customization, 3D printing, human bodies, and the step towards digitally built objects made to individual specifications. The author argues that the modes of customization offered by digital fabrication and mass production have more in common with their industrial predecessors than with craft-based customization. Using case studies of historical and current practices from Europe, Africa, and North America to ground her theory, she investigates where digital fabrication technologies have developed from and how their uses differ from existing modes of production. Digital fabrication and mass customization are concepts encompassing broad ecosystems of technologies and practices. Both are increasingly implemented and hyped. As such, it is imperative to address not just their potential, but their challenges. Written for a scholarly audience and for design practitioners concerned with the social and political impacts of digital fabrication and mass customization, this book will be a useful reference point for students and researchers in digital and analogue design, technology, and material culture.Additional ISBNs0367221292, 1032131217, 0429273401, 9780367221294, 9781032131214, 9780429273407The Digital Bespoke?: Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization 1st Edition is written by ginger coons and published by Routledge. ISBNs for The Digital Bespoke? are 9781000475449, 1000475441 and the print ISBNs are 9780367221294, 0367221292. Additional ISBNs include 0367221292, 1032131217, 0429273401, 9780367221294, 9781032131214, 9780429273407.