{"id":141454,"key":"Hybrid_craft_practices_for_sustainable_materialities_and_narratives_through_digital_fabrication","title":"Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication","latest":{"id":1250166,"timestamp":"2026-06-03T16:00:58Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{FAST notice}}\n\n[[File:Placorn.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Publication data\n| type = Paper\n| 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 [https://www.academia.edu/168135158/Hybrid_craft_practices_for_sustainable_materialities_and_narratives_Hybrid_craft_practices_for_sustainable_materialities_and_narratives_through_digital_fabrication_through_digital_fabrication academia OA],\n| completed = 2026\n| location = Canada\n}}\n\nHybrid 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.\n\n{{Pearce publications notice}}\n\n== See also ==\n\n* [[Design of Alternatives to Stained Glass with Open-Source Distributed Additive Manufacturing for Energy Efficiency and Economic Savings]]\n\n{{Page data\n| title-tag = Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication\n| keywords = Sustainability, Provocative artifacts, 3D printing, Collaborative design, additive manufacturing, Design for Additive Manufacturing, DfAM; open design,\n| sdg = SDG12 Responsible consumption and production\n| published = 2026\n| organizations = Free Appropriate Sustainable Technology, Western\n| license = CC-BY-SA-4.0\n| language = en\n| authors = Alessia Romania, Philip Gurrey, Imogen Clendinning, Junyu Ked, User:J.M.Pearce\n}}\n\n[[Category:Open hardware]]\n[[Category:Open source]]\n[[Category:Distributed manufacturing]]\n[[Category:DIY]]\n[[Category:Energy efficiency]]"}