1st Edition
The Digital Bespoke? Promises and Pitfalls of Mass Customization
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Preface
1. The map, the territory, and the jeans
2. Definitions
3. A known customer
4. The tailor online
5. Interfaces between bodies and standards
6. Mission control and other considerations
7. The role of the user in custom goods
8. Labour, bodies, infrastructure
9. Conclusion/Future
Appendices
Appendix one: Glossary
Appendix two: Configurator walk-throughs
Appendix three: Interview guide from Toronto-phase 3D PrintAbility interviews
Index
Biography
A researcher, educator, and designer, ginger "all-lower-case" coons studies and intervenes in the intersections of individuality, mass standards, and new production technologies. She is interested in the place of the user in the production process, and how individuals take control of the goods they use. She holds a BFA in design from Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), and an MI and PhD in information from the University of Toronto. She has been a member of the Critical Making Lab (Toronto, Canada) and the Digital Cultures Research Centre (Bristol, UK), and is now a Principal Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
