Collaborative Research: FW-HTF-RM: Expanding Rural Ceramics Craft and Computational Fabrication: A Synergy

合作研究：FW-HTF-RM：扩大乡村陶瓷工艺和计算制造：协同作用

• 批准号: 2026218
• 负责人: Leah Buechley
• 金额: $ 81.86万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2026218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; FW; HTF; RM

The aim of this project is to synergistically create new career opportunities for rural craftspeople by blending long-standing craft traditions with new computational fabrication technologies, and to develop new computational fabrication techniques inspired by craft traditions. Craft businesses keep vital cultural traditions alive, contribute significantly to regional economies, and provide communities with a sense of identity and purpose. Craftspeople and their businesses play significant roles in rural areas, where employment options are limited, and communities have a strong sense of identity and pride that is rooted in local craft traditions. Computational fabrication combines computational design, (using computer programming and algorithms to create digital designs), with digital fabrication. Computational fabrication has, thus far, been explored primarily in contexts of academic research and industrial manufacturing. However, as the availability of fabrication machines diversifies, computational fabrication grows compatible with small to medium volume manufacturing craft practices. This project will introduce computational fabrication to new constituents and broaden the development of computational fabrication technologies to represent diverse community cultural forms, values, and needs. It will engage several hundred rural craft practitioners in NM and CA with new opportunities to grow their businesses and creative practices through engagement with computational fabrication and a unique co-development process. It will also engage diverse, rural, middle- and high-school students and teachers in computation, design, fabrication, and entrepreneurship through a series of outreach activities.The team of researchers will partner with rural craftspeople, in New Mexico and California, to co-develop new software, construction techniques, and business strategies that integrate computational design, digital fabrication, and traditional craft. The project will focus on ceramics, while working to ensure that research findings are generalizable to other craft domains. Through a methodology of workshops, interviews, and co-design residencies, the project is expected to develop transformational research contributions–involving practices, methodologies, techniques, and theory across fields–by (1) developing new forms of computational fabrication inspired by craft traditions; (2) investigating new syntheses of ceramic craft practices and traditions, community economics, HCI theory, and computational fabrication technologies; (3) exploring how the co-design and co-development of technology can integrate cultural, economic, and technological concerns; (4) applying Value Chain Analysis to ascertain the economic and cultural viability of new forms of rural production that blend traditional craft and computational fabrication; (5) developing deeper understandings of the unique challenges and opportunities facing rural craft businesses to contribute to studies across a range of fields–including developmental economics, international management, geography, and sociology–which are concerned with the increasing segregation of and inequalities between rural and urban communities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的目的是通过将长期的手工艺传统与新的计算制造技术相结合，为农村手工艺者创造新的职业机会，并开发受手工艺传统启发的新的计算制造技术。手工艺企业保持着重要的文化传统，为区域经济做出了重大贡献，并为社区提供了认同感和目的感。工匠及其企业在农村地区发挥着重要作用，那里的就业选择有限，社区有一种强烈的认同感和自豪感，这种认同感和自豪感植根于当地的手工艺传统。计算制造将计算设计（使用计算机编程和算法来创建数字设计）与数字制造相结合。到目前为止，计算制造主要在学术研究和工业制造的背景下进行探索。然而，随着制造机器的可用性多样化，计算制造与中小批量制造工艺实践兼容。该项目将把计算制造引入新的组成部分，并扩大计算制造技术的发展，以代表不同的社区文化形式，价值观和需求。它将吸引新墨西哥州和加利福尼亚州的数百名农村手工艺从业者，通过参与计算制造和独特的共同开发过程，为他们的业务和创造性实践提供新的机会。该项目还将通过一系列的推广活动，让不同的农村、初中和高中学生和教师参与计算、设计、制造和创业。研究人员团队将与新墨西哥州和加州的农村手工艺者合作，共同开发新的软件、建筑技术和商业战略，将计算设计、数字制造和传统工艺相结合。该项目将侧重于陶瓷，同时努力确保研究成果可推广到其他工艺领域。通过研讨会、访谈和共同设计驻地的方法，该项目预计将通过以下方式发展转型研究贡献-涉及跨领域的实践、方法、技术和理论：（1）开发受工艺传统启发的新形式的计算制造;（2）调查陶瓷工艺实践和传统、社区经济学、人机交互理论和计算制造技术的新综合;（3）探索技术的共同设计和共同开发如何整合文化、经济和技术问题;（4）应用价值链分析来确定融合传统工艺和计算制造的新型农村生产的经济和文化可行性;（5）加深对农村手工艺企业面临的独特挑战和机遇的理解，为一系列领域的研究做出贡献-包括发展经济学、国际管理学、地理学和社会学，这些学科关注城乡社区之间日益加剧的隔离和不平等。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS

迈向互利：反思艺术家驻地作为 DIS 合作方式

• DOI: 10.1145/3563703.3591452
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: DIS '23 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
• 作者: Devendorf, Laura;Buechley, Leah;Howell, Noura;Jacobs, Jennifer;Kao, Cindy Hsin-Liu;Murer, Martin;Rosner, Daniela;Ross, Nica;Soden, Robert;Tso, Jared
• 通讯作者: Tso, Jared

Slabforge: Design Software for Slab-Based Ceramics

• DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517663
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Melody Horn;Amy Traylor;L. Buechley

A Computational Fabrication Course: Exploring Philosophical Reflection, Real-World Use, Personal Expression, and Social Connection

计算制造课程：探索哲学反思、现实世界的使用、个人表达和社会联系

• DOI: 10.1145/3559400.3562006
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication (SCF '22
• 作者: Buechley, Leah;Bustos, Alyshia;Edreva, Eleonora;Fenske, Tyler;Fresquez, Reuben;Hafer, Samuel;Handey, Aislinn;Louie, Michelle;Ng, John;Shen, Alan
• 通讯作者: Shen, Alan