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What’s personal fabrication?

Design your own hat with an on-line design tool and choose your own knitting granny on Goldenhook. This concept is not (really) about design-your-own or about Mass Customization. It’s much more about the story behind the products – and probably even more important – about the story behind the knitting grannies.

Is personal fabrication from now on more about getting things made by the person we like and not so much about getting the things made exactly like we want them? Both sides are important I think. The functionality of physical goods could be perfect, if a machine produces all the things exactly like we need them. But at the same time it could be a boring world. Without carrying stories or personality, things aren’t really interesting for human beings.

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  • http://federicoweber.com Federico Weber

    I think Personal Fabrication is a way to embed inside an object personal feelings and stories. It’s like finding into the production process the satisfaction of discovering on a flea market the strange things, that is almost one of it’s own kind. I think it’s not about the production technology, to me it’s more important the kind of experience you had while you create the objects, and what you can remember of it, owning and using it.

  • http://federicoweber.com Federico Weber

    I think Personal Fabrication is a way to embed inside an object personal feelings and stories. It’s like finding into the production process the satisfaction of discovering on a flea market the strange things, that is almost one of it’s own kind. I think it’s not about the production technology, to me it’s more important the kind of experience you had while you create the objects, and what you can remember of it, owning and using it.

  • Andreas

    Federico, you absolutely got the point! Embedding personal feelings and stories inside an object is the name of the game. Technology is the enabler. Compare it with books: Printing a book isn’t (after many years of exciting developments in print) a big deal anymore. It’s not about printing a book, it’s more about What was written in the book. The ideas, the fears, the hopes, the memories…

  • Andreas

    Federico, you absolutely got the point! Embedding personal feelings and stories inside an object is the name of the game. Technology is the enabler. Compare it with books: Printing a book isn’t (after many years of exciting developments in print) a big deal anymore. It’s not about printing a book, it’s more about What was written in the book. The ideas, the fears, the hopes, the memories…

  • max191

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