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Abstract

This thesis explores architecture as the creative agency of the artist and the artisan in the Creative Industries to foster communication and respect between cultures. The characteristics of the liberative space inhabited by the artist are identified and defined.

By celebrating the process of production in the act of making, the digital crafter wilfully engages and disengages with the individual and the ritual of routine existence in an agitation against the iconoclast and the frustrating of cultural democracy. Instead, social commonalities in cultural norms are promoted to foster respect and cross-cultural dialogue in art and community.