From Additive Manufacturing to 3D/4D Printing 2

Introduction

“In the first place, you learn that thinking too quickly might indeed be a very bad idea. So-called ‘infobesity’ surrounds us everywhere and it seriously undermines our creativity”. [LEW 16]

“The adjustment of the distance to the subject through disciplinary remoteness and the implicit reference to scientific purity is slightly analogous to geographical and cultural remoteness, in the case of the ethnology of exotic worlds. The extreme cultural difference (indeed disciplinary here) allows us to empirically produce what resemble conditions of objectivation. In particular, this makes it appear as if the observer was, in fact, looking from another world from a point situated away from the subject, although the said subject moved towards this point”. [LE 10]

“The practicality of creative genius is not realized until its existence is discovered”. [FIM 17]

“Rapidity demands and creates insensitivity to everything which can slow us down, to friction and forms of hesitation, which make us feel that we are not alone in the world. The process of slowing down is to once again become capable of learning, to meet with and recognize both what we have and what defines us. When in such a physical state, we can think and imagine and, in the same process, create relationships with others, of which we would not otherwise be able to encapsulate the essence”. [STE 13]

“It appears that comprehensive and systematic research is an inherent trend in the process of human thinking. One ...