"Craftsmanship requires a fusion of skill, soul, and patience; it's not just about making things but making things that tell stories." - Unknown
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"In the heart of every craftsman lies a dream not just of creation, but of sharing that creation with the world. It is this shared dream that builds bridges between cultures and generations." - Anon.
"In the heart of every craftsman lies a dream to create something that can tell their story long after they're gone." - Anonymous
"Craftsmanship is a dialogue between the heart, hands, and materials. To make something with your hands is to engage in a conversation with creativity itself." - Unknown
"Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world." - Brené Brown
blast from the past
Shapeways announces customers can order parts in silver
March 2011
https://www.core77.com/posts/18760/shapeways-get-your-rp-on-in-silver-18760
Core77Shapeways: Get your RP on in silver - Core77A pretty exciting development in Rapid Prototyping is the combination of old and new technologies to give users even more materials choices. For example, RP company Shapeways announced yesterday that users can now order parts in silver, which should be a boon to jewelry designers, among others.
The part is not...
I presented this paper in the international fab lab meeting FAB24, in the Research Papers sessions in August in Puebla.
Would be happy to discuss with solarpunkodons.
'Solarpunk as a maker imaginary"
https://zenodo.org/records/13221345
#FAB24 #makers #solarpunk #climate #MakerCulture #OpenDesign
ZenodoSolarpunk as a maker imaginaryThe characteristics of ‘solarpunk’ as an eco-feminist future vision resonates with maker cultures that espouse autonomous development of products and technologies that use renewable energy sources, foster community resilience, accord with principles of environmental justice, and highlight symbiosis with nature and natural systems, even in urban contexts. In this study, we examined solarpunk in online discourse, project descriptions, Fab Academy project concepts, and academic publications, to see how it has travelled from its origins as a sci-fi literary genre to other creative fields, especially design, engineering and fab lab contexts. While there is no agreement on what constitutes solarpunk and what not, we see potential for the concept as a sociotechnical imaginary to motivate fablabbers into more environmentally oriented work in the face of environmental and social crises. Solarpunk may provide impetus in maker culture for alternative organizing and community governance models, to strengthen resistance to capitalist encroachment, precarity and collapse, in a way that is still pragmatic, anti-dystopian and materialist. The study also provides STS insights into how sociotechnical imaginaries may be shaped from below.
Think About 3D Printing Differently
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/f38f18c8-6b5a-4944-93a2-a8b2971d8651
have you completed a doctoral dissertation or master's thesis on #FabLabs #Makers #MakerCulture #makerspace #DigitalFabrication #OpenDesign #LocalProduction recently? can others read it?
let me know, I'll add it to this list
https://www.cindykohtala.fi/2021/05/25/research-on-making/
www.cindykohtala.fiDissertations on fab labs and maker culture – Cindy Kohtala
re-boosting this
the theme of EASST 2024 will be Making and Doing Transformations
I have been looking at the fab lab maker movement as an industrial transitions movement (David J Hess in Undone Science)
(cf my Mastodon Summer School presentation in 2020)
--anyone interested in joining forces?
#STS #makers #MakerCulture #grassroots #design #FabLabs #GrassrootsInnovationMovements
https://scholar.social/@ckohtala/110106528705048611
Scholar Socialckohtala (@ckohtala@scholar.social)prepping for EASST 2024: are there researchers in the intersections of design, STS and sustainability transformations planning to submit a panel?
I'm particularly interested in DIY maker culture, materialist sustainability activism and social movements / social innovation, peer production, shared community workshops, fab labs. would luv to co-host a panel and/or submit a paper to a relevant panel.
#EASST #EASST24 #STS #design #DesignResearch #OpenDesign #Makers