[ecrea] Call for Papers: Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st Century

**CALL FOR PAPERS**
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**INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM | Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry in the 21st 
Century**
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**May 15-16-17 2018 @ Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City**
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**Abstracts submission deadline: February 15th, 2018**


The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, is organizing, with the 
collaboration of Politecnico di Milano, "Digital Meets Handmade: Jewelry 
in the 21st Century*”*,**an international symposium dedicated to the 
topic of jewelry design and manufacturing.**

The conference will take place on the 15th, 16th, 17th of May 2018 at 
FIT in NY.

You can find more information about the call for proposals and the 
submissions procedure on http://www.fitnyc.edu/jewelry-design/symposium/


**TOPICS**

There has been a seismic shift in jewelry design and manufacturing in 
recent years. As digital design and model making have speeded up the 
process, they have proven themselves invaluable as tools of the trade. 
But every tool, hand-held or digital, leaves its mark. This symposium 
will provide an arena for debate on how digital technology and making by 
hand duel for influence in the esthetics, the use , and the cultural 
contexts of jewelry as both a manufactured product and as an applied 
artform.

*—* How does digital design and manufacturing influence and intermesh 
with  contexts for jewelry in cultures around the world?
— Can (or should)  the distinctive “tool mark” of digital design and 3-D 
printing over-take the reverence for hand craftsmanship in the perceived 
quality of jewelry?
— As many designers, artisans, and manufacturers begin to integrate 
digital and handmade in their jewelry production, how will valuation be 
effected?  measured?
— What role does the education of play in the  evolution of best 
practices in design and manufacturing, digital and handmade? Is a hybrid 
approach viable in the 21^st  Century?

The discussion will not only be oriented to the outcome of different 
crafting procedures, but it is intended to propose reflection on the 
production and distribution processes for jewelry. The implications 
“digital vs handmade in social context will be explored. The question of 
how the integration of digital technology effects sustainability will be 
examined—both in manufacturing, and in how if effects the perceived 
value of the jewelry—monetarily and as art.

And finally, the symposium is intended to foster debate and research in 
the didactics of jewelry as an applied art, through of critical analysis 
and discovery.


**KEY DATES**

Abstracts submission deadline: *February 15th, 2018*
Notification due: *March 2018*
Conference: *May 15-16-17, 2018*

You can find more information about the call for proposals and how to 
submit the abstracts on http://www.fitnyc.edu/jewelry-design/symposium.





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