{"id":39613,"date":"2015-07-29T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/authenticity-in-the-digital-age\/"},"modified":"2015-07-29T15:42:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T15:42:16","slug":"authenticity-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/authenticity-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/our.risd.edu\/post\/125346999664\/authenticity-in-the-digital-age\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">ourrisd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What happens<br \/>\nto the notion of place when objects are created and disseminated online? As makers and consumers, are we willing to accept the global, hybrid aesthetic that has<br \/>\ndeveloped in our increasingly digital world?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/ea1ecd7c8363575c4c487432aa68c592\/tumblr_inline_ns96f0hrJq1r4920y_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>These are<br \/>\nsome of the questions raised by Associate Professor of Industrial Design <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/academics\/industrial-design\/faculty\/Paolo-Cardini\/\">Paolo<br \/>\nCardini<\/a><\/b>\u00a0in an interesting opinion piece posted earlier this month on\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3048364\/how-local-influences-drive-design-in-the-digital-age\">Fast<br \/>\nCompany<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that digital tools provide vast possibilities,\u201d<br \/>\nCardini writes, \u201cbut at the same time, they expose us to the threat of<br \/>\naesthetic and cultural homogenization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The designer goes on to underscore the point by noting: \u201cYou cannot really say where a website has been designed or where a code has been written or where a piece of plastic has been printed; you can eventually only recognize which kind of tool has been used to shape them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/92f18ea1af52eb7fc0cf114a5c32c4be\/tumblr_inline_ns972vi9G11r4920y_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><i>Slater Mill in Pawtucket, RI<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, objects made by hand or from analogue production tend to be connected to local resources and reveal something about the era and culture in which they\u2019re produced.\u00a0The textiles industry took off in Rhode Island, among other places, because it was \u201chistorically based on water-powered mills and located in regions with streams and rivers; paper umbrellas were created to protect nobility from sunlight in response to a social demand for pale skin characteristic of specific cultures,\u201d Cardini writes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/dfa9513a1ce4f462d0a4a41bc0155070\/tumblr_inline_nrwjzrp4Zj1riitg8_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Cardini<br \/>\nproposes localized product design and points to several<br \/>\nprojects that have successfully added an element of place to a digitally<br \/>\nproduced object. His own design for a 3D-printed necklace, for example (<i>pictured above<\/i>), takes its shape from code determined by the<br \/>\nphysical location and gross domestic product of the place in which it is made.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>abstract data as geo-tag or geo-marker, place-making, situatedness or situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ourrisd: What happens to the notion of place when objects are created and disseminated online? As makers and consumers, are we willing to accept the global, hybrid aesthetic that has developed in our increasingly digital world? These are some of the questions raised by Associate Professor of Industrial Design Paolo Cardini\u00a0in an interesting opinion piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-39613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-critical-toys"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-aiV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}