Project Four
Manifesto Draft
Technology Apocalypse
“DIY it’s in our DNA”
“DIY its in our DNA”, a quote heavily recognized within the
culture of New Zealand. DIY creates a sense of satisfaction that is not
provided when purchasing a product produced and crafted by an external source,
that is why us New Zealanders love it so much. DIY was not always a favorable
concept for industrial design as it was more efficient to purchase goods from a
mass producer as buying raw materials without any process would be more costly
than purchasing the product from large companies whom mass produced the same
desired product for the consumer. Although as times have past the tables have
turned as mass production will soon see no future as consumers will be able to
make their own products in their own households as technologies which were
previously untouchable by the average person is now accessible for everywhere
and for everyone. In the past DIY was traditionally a process from which
instructions were necessary and with the combination of raw materials, time and
effort you could make almost anything with your bare hands, but now it is as
easy as having a file and clicking “print”!
Three Dimensional
Revolution
3D printers are effectively just amazing, they can produce
anything you require from so many different material bases, creating cogs to
repair mechanical components of your toy to a full sized car! “Three
dimensional printers have built guns, bikinis, shoes, egg cups and iPhone
cases. But one New Zealand man has taken the next big thing to the next level.
He is printing a car”, how many people born from the early 19th
century can say they have seen a machine print out the shell of a full sized
vehicle. Ivan Stentch has taken 3D printing to the extreme with his 3D printed
Aston Martin, which is just the start of the revolution, which has many more
extremes to come.
3D printers are easily accessible, reasonably prices and
cheap to run. The advantages for 3D printing is endless, including revenues
looking into making the most accurately design products with a small margin of
era and having fully customizable designs and products to scream your
individuality and imagination. “Ask a factory today to make you a single hammer
to your own design and you will be presented with a bill for thousands of
dollars. The makers would have to produce a mold, cast the head, machine it to
a suitable finish, turn a wooden handle and then assemble the parts. To do that
for one hammer would be prohibitively expensive. If you were producing
thousands of hammers, each one of them would be much cheaper, thanks to
economies of scale. For a 3D printer, though, economies of scale will matter
much less. Its software can be endlessly tweaked and it can make just about
anything.”, express how 3D printing is slowly going to trump mass production
and soon every house hold will have a 3D printer ready to create any shape,
form or design desired.
DIY and 3D Printing
Integration
Integration of DIY and 3D printing opens a whole new world
for industrial design and creating consumer products. Consumers who wish to DIY
can differentiate the original process and take out the section for raw
materials as you can go straight from creating or downloading a file to being
one step away form printing the perfect product desired. 3D printing not only
creates DIY for new products but also for fixing broken products, which is also
a major part of New Zealand culture. A 3D printer can easily print that cracked
piece form your favorite bowl or the perfect screw head piece to access what’s
locked behind. 3D printers are soon to be a product, which you will find,
situated in every household situation next to your ink printer ready to unleash
your dreams and potential.
Efficiency is
everything
Consumers are very conscious of the smallest details when it
comes to sustainability and the efficiency of a product from the start to the
finish of production. Mass produced design is extremely inefficient with large
amounts of waste material and the high use of resources when producing these
goods for us including postage and travel cost. 3D printing is an effective
mean of producing goods with no waste which makes it extremely efficient
especially in contrast to mass production as that has a number of negatives
which effort the sustainability of future design.
With a number of different 3D printing materials including
plastics, metals and dio-degradable biopolymers your design can be printed to
exactly what is required from you the designer. “The 3D production ecosystem
will have major effects in each of the three major stages of the
design-build-deliver model. It will change the nature of design, it will
increase the interactivity between design and production, and it will radically
localize manufacturing.”
Individuality
New Zealanders love being exclusive and expressing their
individuality. 3D printing makes this easy, as everyone becomes a designer when
they are behind the screen creating their individual products to be printed.
With the use of many CAD software available on the market it is extremely easy
to create anything you want which screams you individuality.
As well as creating your own files to print there is a large
online data base for all your DIY needs, websites such as www.grabcad.com
provides a database on which you can upload your files for other people to down
load to use and even then the files are further customizable to be made to your
prefrences. “More recently, digital media, such as social computing and other
collaboration technologies, have increased participation in DIY endeavors by
providing newer and often more powerful digital tools and new ways to share information.20
Kunznetov and Pau- los argue that “an emerging body of tools allows enthusiasts
to collaboratively critique, brainstorm, and troubleshoot their work, often in
real-time. This accessibility and decentralization has enabled large
communities to form around the transfer of DIY information, attracting
individuals who are curious, passionate, and/or heavily involved in DIY work”
express the large online community that promotes DIY and 3D printing.
Conclusion
Every household should contain a 3D printer, as there are
many beneficial aspects including being efficient, sustainable and expresses
individuality. 3D printers are easily accessible and help to reduce waste
through mass production. Every New Zealander needs a 3D printer to aid and
assist their DIY addiction.
Bibliography:
Petrick,
I. J., & Simpson, T. W. (2013). 3D printing disrupts manufacturing.
Research Technology Management, 56(6), 12-16. Retrieved from
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Lukens, J. (2013). DIY Infrastructure and the Scope of Design Practice.
Summer 2013, Vol. 29, No. 3,
Pages 14-27. Retrieved from
http://www.mitpressjournals.org.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/doi/abs/10.1162/DESI_a_00218#.VD2tqL7lelI
Day, Simon.
(2013). Kiwi 3D printing an Aston Martin. Retrieved from
http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/videos/8995908/Kiwi-3D-printing-an-Aston-Martin
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