RAFT

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RAFT is a research network that aims to support and explore the changing identity of creative practices.

The network brings together researchers in digital technologies and traditional ways of making, exploring how designers and makers can use technologies to develop new thinking and practice.

Network members include designers, makers, educators, students, technologists and researchers from a range of material-based disciplines. Their aim is to regularly come together through workshops, talks and networking events to further explore the frictions and opportunities that emerging technologies can bring into their practices.

Unified through the shared interest of exploring the potential of handcrafted and digital technologies, members are linked across a diverse range of material based disciplines in order to provide peer support and interaction in the making process. The spaces between these disciplines are the places they try to pry open.

The Network aims to work collaboratively on projects and connect its own developmental pathways and practices as a research cohort.

Members believe that their awareness of the changing identity of creative design practices within an increasingly technologized environment motivates them to openly explore the group identity through research activities.

As well as staff and students from across Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), the group currently includes the musicians, jewellers, active researchers from Glasgow School of Art and artists. The Network is also partnered with Craft Scotland, with whom it co-delivers the residential public talks series.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL