Comments on: Research: 3D printing, the Arts and Crafts Movement and the Democratization of Art https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/research-3d-printing-the-arts-and-crafts-movement-and-the-democratization-of-art/2014/11/02 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:34:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: markus petz https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/research-3d-printing-the-arts-and-crafts-movement-and-the-democratization-of-art/2014/11/02/comment-page-1#comment-953773 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:34:45 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=46655#comment-953773 I have highlighted that there is a commonality of approach here between Maker culture and also Arts & Crafts. YET some from the maker culture erroneously tell me they are different – I cannot see the difference. So good luck if you can find it.

My understanding is that ARTS & CRAFTS were not against machines per se – but against mass produced poor quality articles rather than well made quality skilled items. A cynic would say judging by the poor quality 3D printed items commonly made from p2p mass shared templates and blue prints that they are opposites. BUT the 3D eutopian dream is not for over priced plastic rubbish even if that is what is realised today.

It is a misunderstanding in the same way that people think th Luddites were against machines – when what they were against was the loss of their livelihoods – this was even more valid in India where weavers who continued to weave had their thumbs removed so that they were not able to even try and compete no modernize. A similar affect was vistited upon the Enlish weavers as they could not (I think) get the capital to open their own centres of production using the new tech – even if they had wanted to.

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