Innovation / Saudi Arabia31.12.1969
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A New Lab for Digital Craft Opens in Riyadh
A research studio pairing master artisans with computational designers begins its first cohort.
Majlis Tech6 Min Read
The lab's premise is unfashionably slow: eighteen months per project, with craftspeople holding authorship alongside engineers.
Its first outputs are joinery systems derived from historic woodwork, cut on five-axis machines but assembled by hand.
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