Embodied Fabrication: Computer Aided Spacemaking

Abstract

This paper discusses work from two digital fabrication seminars taught at the University of California Berkeley: Fabricating Space and Thick Skinned. The full-scale installations explore relationships among the body, digital design, and making. They combine investigations of perceptual and spatial effects with digital modeling processes and full-scale CNC fabrication, focusing in particular on how new media practices forge alternative methods of representing and constructing corporeal and sensorial experience.