Re-configurable Pin Tooling for Studio Glass
- Submitting institution
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University of the West of England, Bristol
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1467593
- Type
- K - Design
- Open access status
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- Month
- January
- Year
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This output concerns a reconfigurable, sheet glass moulding concept based on the Reconfigurable Pin Tooling (RPT) principle. The tooling concept developed enables the creation of glass pieces with the possibility of creating infinite design variation from a single tooling device. Both the construction of the device, and the creative output from this tool, are entirely original.
In addition to the technical and artistic outputs, the research addresses wider theoretical concepts relating to notions of tool creation and independent innovator practice as a part of the knowledge contribution.
The practice elements within this research theme have been rigorously recorded through an IOS based research journal as a multi-modal database template. The journal has the capacity to record both quantitative and qualitative data in the shape of researcher observations and reflections via rich media fields.
The research has been widely recognised nationally and internationally at numerous exhibitions, in the UK at Trelissick House (Cornwall), Syon Park, Saachi Gallery, Christies Auction House (all London), and internationally at Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Salone de Mobile (Milan), Munich International Craft Fair, and Los Angeles Convention Centre, which included some of the UK’s most prominent designers and craft practitioners: Liz Ayliff, Nic Webb, Michael Eden, Hitomi Hosono, Peter Marigold and Colin Reid. The research leading to the creation of the tooling concept, as well as the creative output, was disseminated in the Journal ART (May 2019) and at the SIGGRAPH 2015 conference in Los Angeles.
While the outputs of the research are currently located in the field of applied arts, this research (both technically and theoretically) has potential significance much more widely. The tooling concept has already been the focus for explorations in furniture production by MARK Product, Cornwall (http://www.markproduct.com) and the theoretical aspects concerning notions of independent innovation have significance in wider interdisciplinary contexts.
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- Non-English
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