[AD201401_02] High Definition: Zero Tolerance in Design and Production

The issue delivers much that is exciting at the cutting edge of technology with Tobias Nolte and Andrew Witt’s description of the self-optimisation system that Gehry Technologies developed for the  realisation of the Fondation Louis Vuitton art museum in Paris (pp 82–9). Skylar Tibbits also provides an insightful account of the 4D printing processes that the Self-Assembly Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is collaborating on with multi-material printing company Stratasys Ltd (pp 116–121). New developments in technology often highlight or accentuate existing possibilities and preoccupations in design. This is an important aspect that Sheil gives space to in the issue by dedicating several articles to defining a high-definition approach and the perceptions surrounding it, whether informed by innovative or conventional techniques — see Ilona Gaynor and Benedict Singleton (pp 48–53), Birgir Örn Jónsson (pp 54–9) and Michael Webb’s (pp 60–73) articles.

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