Fostering technical skills and creativity in the digital fabrication spaces: an open-ended prototyping approach
This paper explores the impact of a digital fabrication course on the development of digital fabrication skills and creativity. The course focused […]
Making The Future School: An Analysis of Teens’ Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project
Maker culture emphasizes informal, networked, self- and peer-led learning, motivated by fun and self-fulfillment, and learning through mistakes. However, studies often describe […]
Making The Future School: An Analysis of Teens’ Collaborative Digital Fabrication Project
Maker culture emphasizes informal, networked, self- and peer-led learning, motivated by fun and self-fulfillment, and learning through mistakes. However, studies often describe […]
The show must go on!
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for Fab Labs and makerspaces where the use of digital fabrication machines and working with physical materials […]
Sustainable Design and Prototyping Using Digital Fabrication Tools for Education
Prototyping physical artifacts is a fundamental activity for both product development in industrial and engineering design domains and the development of digital […]
STEAM in Oulu
There is an increased interest to integrate STEAM methodologies and digital fabrication processes into formal education. However, teachers have repeatedly reported a […]
Guidelines for empowering children to make and shape digital technology—case fab lab oulu
Digital technology design and making skills are seen as important ‘twenty-first century skills’ that children need to learn to become future changemakers, […]
A Framework to Analyse Digital Fabrication Projects
In this study, we formulate a framework to evaluate open-ended projects related to digital fabrication. The framework consists of two dimensions, i.e. […]
Capturing Prototype Progress in Digital Fabrication Education
The early (pre-requirement) stages of product development can provide relevant insights into the creative design process. At these stages, the communication of […]
“Document-while-doing”
Maker and DIY communities are constantly sharing tutorials, projects documentation, as well as design sketches and model files. Producing documentation of good […]