Who's who
Tavs Jorgensen
Research Fellow
Sustainable Design Research Centre
Autonomatic Research Group
Keywords: Post Industrial Production, Digital Manufacturing, Human Computer Interaction, Applied Arts, Craft
Research interests
My research is located in the wider context of post-industrial production focused on exploring how digital design and manufacturing tools can be used as the foundation for new models of creative practice in a borderline area between craft, design and digital production.
Within this field I have a number of specific project under continual development. One of the central projects over recent years has been the investigation of emerging gestural computer interfaces and the possibility of using these to facilitate a visual evidence of the ‘hand of the maker' in the aesthetics of artefacts designed and produced via digital tools.
Other research interests include: Universal Tooling, Pinscreen, and Rapid Manufacturing and CNC open source fabrication.
Recent outputs
The digitally ‘hand made' object, Physicality Workshop, Human Computer Interaction Conference, Churchill College Cambridge 01/09/ 2009
Non object ive, Lotz Design Festival, Poland, 15.10.2009-31.10.2009
Know How, Tallinn, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Estonia, 14.11.2009-21.02.2010
From Virtual Line to Physical Form, The Wills Lane Gallery, (solo show) St. Ives, 29.03.2009-25.04.2009
Object Factory II, Museum of Art and Design, New York, USA, 06.05.2009-13.09.2009
Selected earlier outputs
Jorgensen, T (2005) Binary Tools (conference paper) In the Making - Nordic Design Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 29/5 - 31/5 2005.
Jorgensen, T (2007) Conducting Form (conference paper) Design Enquiries, Stockholm, Sweden 2007,
New Craft Future Voices (2007) (exhibition) (‘Hello we are Autonomatic') Dundee, Scotland,2007,
Interface (2006), (touring exhibition, invited); also disseminated at Sydney Myer International Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Gallery, Australia 2006 and ‘The Art of Dansk', Chelsea Art Museum, New York, 2007
Current research / forthcoming outputs:
Abstract accepted for: Design and Craft, Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies, ICDHS 2010 September 2010, Brussels, Belgium
Abstract accepted for: ‘Creativity and Innovation in Glass' symposium, University of Wolverhampton, August 2010
2D-3D, Organized and curated by the Centre for Fine Print Research, international touring from September 2010
DRAW, Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, curated and organised by CA&D, RCA, April 2010.
Crafts Council online exhibition, launch date July 2010
Indside Out, Exhibition, organised by Institute for Creative Technologies, De Mont fort University and ARRK, Australia. Venues: Object Gallery, Sydney, June 2010 (UK Venue to be confirmed)
Manufactured Brilliance and Beauty in Daily Life, curated by the Ceramics Research Center, Arizona State University Art Museum, USA late 2010
Membership of learned societies, subject associations
Fellow of the RSA, Fellow of the HEA, Member of the Devon and Exeter Institution.
I am particularly interested in supervising research in Post industrial design and Production
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