Panel: Blockchain for Designers and Artisans

(Archive) Apprenticeship 2.0

A handcrafting experience in VR that expands the possibilities of human-machine symbiosis.

This project was part of DDW 2020

Virtual maker space simulates passage of time — © Bolor Amgalan

This project is part of: Panel: Blockchain for Designers and Artisans

Apprenticeship 2.0 is an immersive VR experience and a digital design tool that uses particle-based simulated yarns with realistic material properties. Enabling a new form of craft preservation practice, it provokes discussion about human-machine symbiosis in the 21st century.

Today it is more important than ever to take pride in human abilities and direct inevitable technological change to support human creativity and craftsmanship. As VR/AR/XR technologies take center stage, innovative approaches to creating true sense of emb

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