MArch Thesis
This is Your Brain on Design
This thesis is about the brain, the computer and craft. The bond between maker and made breaks in the digital realm — the digital cannot yet replicate the phenomenology of craft. Digital objects and the physical brain clash through a tenuous interface. This thesis proposes a gradual dissolution of this interface through studying doppelganger processes — one vested in traditional ceramic handicraft and the other in Brain Computer Interaction and modeling software. It breaks apart the designer’s hand into a gradient of intentionality and utilizes brain waves to mediate digital matter. Instead of presenting processes as oppositional, this thesis proposes that the digital and the physical become mutual protagonists in the art of making.