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CONCLUSION Our investigation into the sustainable potential of combining digital and traditional clay making processes has revolved around the figure of the robot: an piece of factory machinery rescued and given new life in the environment of the workshop. No longer one of many, this robot is now part of a cottage industry and as such its capacities are available to be experimented with in new ways – perhaps even used ‘wrongly’. Our understanding of sustainable practice is that it is one that is both culturally and ecologically sustainable – it makes with its environment whether inside or outside the workshop. A cottage industry-like practice allows us to look outside the modes of mass production. The robot is no longer fixed in its purpose to create cars, rather it is a tool that moves in space which can be used experimentally. Outside of industrial scale production, diverse materials, processes and tools can be combined: the arm of the robot, the feet of the cob-builder and the beak of the swallow. REFERENCES Geoff Larminie, ‘The Geology of the Chilterns’, Chloesbury and St Leonard’s Local History Group website, retrieved 20 December 2015, http://cholesbury.com/documents/hccpsgeology2003.pdf. Visco-Tec, The Endless Piston Principle, website, retrieved 5 January 2016, http://www.viscotec.de/en/ technology Raymond Williams, Keywords: A vocabulary of culture and society (London: Fourth Estate, 2014), 88. Gaston Bachelard, Translation by Kenneth Haltman, Earth and Riveries of Will: An essay on the imagimnation of matter (Dallas: The Dallas Institute Publications, 2002), 57. Rebecca Reid, in discussion with the author. February 14, 2015. Clay Workshop at Grymsdyke Farm, Buckinghamshire. “The Cob Buildings of Devon: History, Building Methods and Conservation.” Devon Historic Buildings Trust (January, 1992) Osman Attman, Green Architecture: Advanced Technologies and Materials (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010), 125. E. Morgan “Sticky Layers and Shimmering Weaves: a comparison of two human uses of spider silk.” Journal of Design History (Vol. 28:3, 2015) Mike Hansell, Built by Animals: The Natural History of Animal Architecture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 75. Paul Jaquin and Charles Augarde. Earth Building: History, Science and Conservation (Bracknell : IHS BRE Press, 2012), 33. Peter Goodfellow, Avian Architecture: How Birds Design, Engineer and Build (Lewes: Ivy Press, 2013), 84.