Editorial: Digital Capture: 3D imaging in Art, Design and Architecture

This is the third special issue that Clear+Park (C+P) have edited for AIS, and working with them has once again been a hugely enjoyable experience. In all our collaborations, we have enjoyed enormous freedom in the type of projects that can be included, especially the license to mix practice-based projects and speculative approaches alongside more traditional academic text-led pieces.

In this edition, we look at the technologies of digital capture: 3D scanning, photogrammetry and depth, and motion detecting technologies. The introduction of these instrumental forms of capture has allowed highly accurate processes by which objects and spaces can be surveyed, mapped and digitised. Currently, this information is predominantly used to catalogue, record and document spaces and artefacts as part of a digital project workflow, often within a construction or heritage context.