Podcasts
Lily Yung (John Dickenson, George Ang, Sherman Lang) Jeweller, Designer., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This podcast is intended for educational use only.
Traditional craft and mass manufacturing are two extremes of production systems that cater to meet the needs in our daily life. Early craftsmen spent many hours on repetitive and laborious handwork. The industrial revolution has improved their productivity and the quality of their wares by means of machines and engineering. Mass production has greatly reduced costs and improved quality but also increased standardization. This trend towards uniformity has sparked a greater desire from consumers for one-of-a-kind objects and with it a resurgence of fine crafts.
The increasing demand for unique objects suggests that the industrial era that has saturated us with goods in identical multiples is now at a close. A fine craft artist must think of ways to reconcile the craft tradition and our fast paced technological society. The manufacturer must work towards means to integrate multiple products and designs into the production system. Combining the creativity of the artist and the latest tools and technologies of the manufacturing industry would enable them to remain competitive and to meet future challenges in the global market. This was the basis of Yung's recent Artist in Residence for Research (AIRes ) project at the Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute in London, Ontario.
{AIRes is a joint program between the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Research Council}
We will present the design generative software developed during the residency, work produced and how the use of computer aided technologies impact on a fine craft practitioner.
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Dans son exposé, l'auteure explore l'interface entre les procédés manufacturriers d'aujourd'hui et la production artisanale contemporaine, et la nécessité et les avantages qu'ont les deux à se rejoindre. Elle présente le logiciel développé durant son séjour à l'Institut des Technologies Manufacturières, à Londres en Ontario.