Making Design Tools Like a Weaver: Four Rules
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Abstract
What would happen if we designed CAD systems like a weaver designs cloth? Drawing from our ongoing collaborations with weavers, we suggest four rules to bring these qualities to your own practice: follow the materials, privilege the present and personal, form kinships with the past, and design systems of notations.
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Summer 2023
65 pages
ISSN:1528-4972
EISSN:1528-4980
DOI:10.1145/3605197
- Editors:
- Karan Ahuja,
- Jiayi Li
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives International 4.0 License.
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Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
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Published: 16 June 2023
Published in XRDS Volume 29, Issue 4
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