TY - GEN
T1 - Workshop on EUD for supporting sustainability in maker communities
AU - Boden, Alexander
AU - Avram, Gabriela
AU - Posch, Irene
AU - Pipek, Volkmar
AU - Fitzpatrick, Geraldine
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Recently, there has been a proliferation of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) communities that can be generally included in the larger all-encompassing maker movement: Hackerspaces, FabLabs, Transition Town groups etc. Made possible by the new horizons opened by digital fabrication and the Internet, the maker movement has a great potential to foster sustainable living by supporting innovation in this field, facilitating its appropriation and propagating its practical use. However, technology-driven maker communities are often perceived as places for tech-savvy people and have difficulties to attract wider audiences. In this workshop, we would like to discuss how can EUD concepts support sustainability in maker communities by ensuring wider scale access to digital fabrication, supporting user innovation and leveraging knowledge sharing across communities.
AB - Recently, there has been a proliferation of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) communities that can be generally included in the larger all-encompassing maker movement: Hackerspaces, FabLabs, Transition Town groups etc. Made possible by the new horizons opened by digital fabrication and the Internet, the maker movement has a great potential to foster sustainable living by supporting innovation in this field, facilitating its appropriation and propagating its practical use. However, technology-driven maker communities are often perceived as places for tech-savvy people and have difficulties to attract wider audiences. In this workshop, we would like to discuss how can EUD concepts support sustainability in maker communities by ensuring wider scale access to digital fabrication, supporting user innovation and leveraging knowledge sharing across communities.
KW - culture of participation
KW - digital fabrication
KW - end user development
KW - maker communities
KW - prosumption
KW - sustainability
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84884397037&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_30
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38706-7_30
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84884397037
SN - 9783642387050
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 298
EP - 303
BT - End-User Development - 4th International Symposium, IS-EUD 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 4th International Symposium on End User Development, IS-EUD 2013
Y2 - 10 June 2013 through 13 June 2013
ER -