Photos: Niklas Adrian Vindelev.
Instead of accelerating the demise of traditional craftsmanship, what if digital tools enhanced it and expanded the possibilities of what we can make?What if an architect could use a digital tool — a CNC machine, say — to create something with a distinctly human quality? How might the machine be applied to skills such as woodwork and metalwork? Could it be used to make objects with the aesthetic appeal, including the touch and feel, of a handmade object? Could it also make objects that can be scaled — objects with applicability to architecture?
These were the timely questions that three architects recently explored as residents at SPACE10 — IKEA’S external future-living lab. With a shared interest in exploring how digital tools can be applied to traditional techniques — and the potential of a CNC milling machine in particular — Yuan Chieh Yang, Benas Burdulis, and Emil Froege together found answers in three very different but eye-opening ways.
You can read and see more at Space10.
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The character Danerys Targaryen finally returned to Westeros on Sunday night’s Game of Thrones Season 7 premiere, but the actress, Emilia Clarke, shot the scene on a Northern Irish beach called Downhill Strand. Much of what viewers know as Westeros, in fact, is actually Northern Ireland, including parts of Winterfell, Slaver’s Bay, and the Kingsroad—all thanks to the nation’s open tracts of land and many surviving castles. To draw attention to this fact, Ireland’s tourism board commissioned a massive tapestry that details every episode of the series.
The 66-meter-long artwork is on display at the Ulster Museum in Belfast. A group of artisans including the museum’s director, Katherine Thomson, are embroidering each meter with characters and symbols that summarize each one of the episodes preceding Sunday’s “Dragonstone.” As Season 7 progresses, they’ll add more yardage to the tapestry to reflect new developments on the HBO juggernaut. By the end of season 7 it will be 77 meters long.
You can read and see more at The Creators Project.
That tapestry. Where do you put it afterward?? Worth seeing for the craft, even if you don’t follow the show.
Quite amazing.
I think it will stay at the Ulster Museum in Belfast as a permanent fixture.
It was more of a rhetorical question but I’m glad to hear that.
This feels a lot like a continuation of medieval tapestry art, where they put epics and myths and stories (in other words, popular fiction) on display. And the show has been quite central to Northern Ireland, as mentioned, so it’s only fitting that it gets immortalized in this way.
(The more I think about it, the more I like the idea and could list a few good shows that should be embroidered on tapestries. :D Though they have a less-specific location connection to anywhere.)