Decentring the Human in Digital Making - Towards Embodied Mattering
Charlotte Nordmoen · 2020
The key objective for this research is to understand how materials shape the outcome of craft practice to create embodied ways of making and being with technology, that supports our material existence as bodies in a more-than-human world. To achieve this, I will use a mixed-method approach consisting of ethnography, experimental lab work, as well as research-through design and making workshops. The first half of the PhD is concerned with understanding the relationship woodworkers and hand carvers have with their material as well as values connected with their work and craft process. An ethnography of woodcarvers lays the foundation for a lab experiment using a custom-built apparatus for augmenting hand carving experience. I will draw on insights gained in the first part of the PhD to develop novel processes for embodied making with machines using research-through-design methods.