stockholm-font.stl

By delving into their collections and digitising artefacts, museums have opened up a whole new dimension: a storehouse of 3D-scanned objects. Fiona Herrod explores the opportunities that present themselves when such files become accessible to the public. In this age of the ‘digital craftsman’, every artefact can be reimagined, re-made and given a new use. Taking ‘stockholm-font.stl’ as the source file, a digital copy of a plaster font from the V&A Museum, and reconfiguring the file into a collection of household items, she speculates on how objects once reserved for the museum can be ‘democratised’ and enter the homes of the public. Scaled down into a bucket or stretched into a dustpan and brush: any artefact can have a new existence.