ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the missing body of knowledge that bridges interior design to digital fabrication. It provides the praxis of experimental prototyping and integrated technology to show how the use of digital fabrication is inherent to the interior scales of body, object and enclosure. If the lens shifts and the discourse are placed in the field of interiors, then a new practice begins to emerge in the discipline, one that reflects the integration of design strategies informed by digital fabrication tools and processes while addressing interior design professional practice. Digital fabrication inherently draws into question its relationship to traditional forms of craftsmanship and authorship, in the context and scale of interior design. A list of design strategies is connected directly to the realm of digital fabrication but inherently falls under the larger umbrella of interior design since the themes seamlessly span both areas.
