Digital Fabrication in Interior Design: Body, Object, Enclosure

Jonathon Anderson is the Associate Chair and an Associate Professor of Interior Design at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Additionally, Jonathon serves as the Director of The Creative School Design + Technology Lab. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from Savannah College of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Southern Illinois University. His work explores how industrial manufacturing, robotics and CNC technologies influence the design and making processes. As a result, the work is characterized by innovative and explorative methods that result in interconnected design, fine art and technology solutions. From this non-traditional process emerges a provocative, complex design language that visually communicates at varied scales and emphasizes corporeal and phenomenological experiences. To Jonathon, making is not only a practice but a form of critical thinking. Lois Weinthal is Chair of Interior Design at The Creative School and Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Her research and practice investigate the relationship between architecture, interiors, clothing and objects resulting in works that take on an experimental nature. Her teaching explores these topics where theoretical discussions in seminars are put into practice in the design studio. She is the editor of Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory, co-editor of After Taste: Expanded Practice in Interior Design, and co-editor of The Handbook of Interior Architecture and Design. Lois has received grants from the Graham Foundation, Fulbright, SSHRC and DAAD, and has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally. Previously, she was Director of the Interior Design Program at Parsons The New School for Design and Graduate Advisor for the Master of Interior Design Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Lois studied architecture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Rhode Island School of Design. She currently holds the position of Honorary Professor at the Glasgow School of Art.

Introduction Part I: Body 1. Iris van Herpen: The Art of Fashioning the Future 2. Great Mistakes 3. Fashion and Technology: The Intangible as a Working Material 4. Random Bodies: PRAXIS: Random International Part II: Object 5. An Architectural Romance between Subject and Object 6. Materiality and Objecthood: Reflections on the Work of Geoffrey Mann 7. Soft Objects: PRAXIS: Assa Studio 8. The Rise of the Generalist: Imaginative Architectural Practices in the Age of Digital Technology 9. The Role of the Hand in Digital Design 10. Emerging Objects Part III: Enclosure 11. Emergent Enclosures: Granular Architectures 12. Three Ensembles 13. Occupying Categorical Limits: Material, Attitude and Assembly: PRAXIS: FreelandBuck 14. Conical Hinges: Shaping Ambiguous Enclosures 15. The Figure in Translation Endnote - Trajectory: Cradling Bodies: Trajectories of Minds, Objects and Enclosures