Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication

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Title	Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication
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Year	2026
Language	English (en)
Location	Canada
License	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Cite as	Romani, A., Gurrey, P., Clendinning, I., Ke, J., and Pearce, J. (2026) Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication, in Simeone, L., Gray, C. M., Verhoeven, A., de Götzen, A., Bakırlıoğlu, Y., Zohar, H., Stead, M., and Buwert, P. (eds.), DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1127 academia OA,

Hybrid craft can help envision more sustainable futures, recognizing the human-nature-technology interdependence in ecological making practices. Beyond industrial and research applications, digital fabrication offers new aesthetic and formal possibilities to designers, artists, and practitioners, exploring new materialities and narratives to foster sustainable discourses through hybrid craft and reflective making. This paper explores how hybrid craft and digital fabrication can foster sustainable materialities and narratives to reflect on human-nature-technology relationships and advance sustainability discourses through Janus, a collaborative case study combining local natural elements with 3D printing and crafts. By showcasing a corn stalk alongside its 3D scanned and 3D printed counterpart, the artwork challenges existing human-centric biases and contemporary extractive systems, highlighting human impacts on nature, technological mediation, and sustainability narratives emerging from natural and technological materialities, e.g., different growing patterns, timescales, and perceptions. Similar artifacts foster collaboration and provoke discussions on sustainable practices, acknowledging post-anthropocentric perspectives toward sustainable futures.

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Keywords	Sustainability, Provocative artifacts, 3D printing, Collaborative design, additive manufacturing, Design for Additive Manufacturing, DfAM; open design
SDG	SDG12 Responsible consumption and production
Authors	Alessia Romania, Philip Gurrey, Imogen Clendinning, Junyu Ked, Joshua M. Pearce
License	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Organizations	Free Appropriate Sustainable Technology, Western
Language	English (en)
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Created	June 3, 2026 by Joshua M. Pearce
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Cite as	Alessia Romania, Philip Gurrey, Imogen Clendinning, Junyu Ked, Joshua M. Pearce (2026). "Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication". Appropedia. Retrieved June 4, 2026.
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