TRACEY NGUYEN
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RMIT
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SEMESTER 1
2015
The Maker Ecology C o m m u n i t y D e v e l o p m e n t & S u s t a i n a b l e I n n o v a t i o n
M D I T M A J O R P R O J E C T PA R T A
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maker culture | global & local
PART ONE
the maker network | online platform
PART TWO
makerspaces | strategic design
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Idea Makers
Connecting People Accessible to All
Sharing knowlege and skills
Bottom up
DIY Craftspeople
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Technologist
Biohackers
Smaller Scale
Cost Efficient
maker culture? The maker culture is a complex ecosystem, and its definition can be approached various ways. The concept that most makers primarily identify with is the element of community and accessibility in creating. There are numerous methods of creating and the maker culture celebrates this diversity, e.g. from low-tech (sewing and woodworking) to high-tech (3d printing and biohacking). However ‘it’s the story not of tools but of people’ (wearemakers.org), this movement provides a social framework and an environment where: • communication & collaboration are facilitated • people share knowledge and skills • tools and technology are democratized • thinking and making are a fluid process • everyone is intrinsically creative • products & strategies are custom & personalised • individuals have the ability to make • the ability to continue creating through failure is encouraged for progress • we shape and change the world around us
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work and play in a world where anybody can make anything anywhere.
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the real project is not specifically the tools, but ... in asking how you live,
- Neil Gershenfeld from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
e.g. timber, makerspace...
MELBOURNE & BEYOND
project vision
+ Space + Materials
MAKER NETWORK
UPCOMING EVENTS
Search
PART ONE
+ Events
TODAY • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location
To design strategies that will optimise the benefits of the current maker culture through encouraging sustainable innovation and community development.
TOMORROW • 9:00 Maker faire @ location JUNE 1st • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location JUNE 2nd • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Maker faire @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location
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A VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTHER SEES HER ULTRASOUND THANKS TO 3D PRINTING A Huggies-sponsored clip showing visually impaired mother-to-be Tatiana Guerra as she “sees” her unborn child for the first time with a 3D printed ultrasound has racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube. A São Paulo-based digital production outfit known as “The Goodfellas” ...Read more » By George LeVines, 05/17/2015 @ 4:54 pm HAITI COMMUNITERE: ECOEFFICIENCY Jesse Baker, Tom Cemo, and Scott Skamnes visited the Haiti Communitere Resource Center to locally source and build a 48 sq foot aquaponics system. Within the modular system, fish are raised symbiotically with plant production through a closed system that uses 90% less water than regular agriculture. By Haiti Communitere
The Maker Network Online Platform
PART TWO
Makerspace Strategic Design Physical Spaces
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bottom up investigating
Lack of understanding of local resources • Tool: map / app of the existing • Inform easier planning for future resources • Local, sustainable and cheaper ways of sourcing materials
There is an emerging niche of makerspaces in victoria and around australia.
Instead of just making - a movement towards liberal arts
Lack of connection with one another and resource
• Melbourne’s maker network
More involment of the general public/ students
Humanitarian applications: christchurch communitere - haiti & phillippine
Lack of connection with one another Graduates lack of exploration after graduation Due to accessibility.
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M3 - maribyrnong maker map Maker faire in melbourne needs to diversify
Limited access to current students
First makerspace in a highschool
Christchurch example of makerspaces for disaster relief • Australia’s extreme weather/natural disaster (bush fires)
Lauriston girls’ school w/ standford university
The maker map
accessibility for everyone
OPEN SOURCE MULTIDISCIPLINARY
LEARNING SOCIAL EQUITY
CROWD SOURCE
GLOBAL
COLLABORATION LOCAL
COMMUNICATION
COMMUNITY
INNOVATION
SUSTAINABILITY
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Created on mapbox.com
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Search Difficulty
2012 CCHS 2013 Space Tank Studio 2013 Footscray maker lab 2014 Make-Create 2014 Library at the Docks In progress Northern Makers
Crowd sourced (manual)
red icons = makerspaces/hackerspace
It was proven difficult to find the spaces relating to the Melbourne’s maker community. Searching on google was not very helpful.
I was able to map out the spaces around Melbourne that catered for the maker community with the help of Matthew Wilcox from CityLab Melbourne, Rex Hazard from Communitere and a facebook makers group.
Accessibility to All
As a student, it can be expensive to buy new materials and tools. This is an obstacle that we need to overcome to have the ability to continue creating.
Mapping the Maker Movement
Local & Reusuable Resources
Interaction
Globally our cosumerist behaviour has produce an abundance of waste. It is damaging to our natural environment and our own health. By tackling this issue locally we can help stop and even reverse the damages that have already taken place.
Rapid spatial growth but lack of connection and awareness of the local culture.
Sustainability can be a worn out expression, and used vicariously to shadow our consumerist ways. Yet this is exactly the reason why we need to realistically strive for sustainability within our community and the natural environment that supports us. This is a global issue that needs to dealt with on a local level. To sustain such a movement we must look to local resources and upcycling objects.
melbourne maker culture
New & Rapidly Growing
In researching about the Melbourne maker community, it is evident that there has been a recent influx in this grassroots movement. However it has been found that there is this lack of connectivity between makers, as well as makerspaces around Melbourne and its neighbouring communities. This is an impediment towards the accessibility that is necessary for this culture. How can we overcome this?
Visting makerspaces, attending talks, and interacting with makers - in these interactions there was a clear indication towards a lack of disconnection in the maker community, in terms of finding makerspaces and accessing tools. 11
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MAKER NETWORK
+ Space + Materials
MAKER NETWORK e.g. timber, makerspace...
UPCOMING EVENTS
Search sourc+ Events
TODAY • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location TOMORROW • 9:00 Maker faire @ location JUNE 1st • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location JUNE 2nd • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 14th • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 25th • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 30th • 9:00 Maker faire @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location
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A VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTHER SEES HER ULTRASOUND THANKS TO 3D PRINTING A Huggies-sponsored clip showing visually impaired mother-to-be Tatiana Guerra as she “sees” her unborn child for the first time with a 3D printed ultrasound has racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube. A São Paulo-based digital production outfit known as “The Goodfellas” ...Read more » By George LeVines, 05/17/2015 @ 4:54 pm HAITI COMMUNITERE: ECOEFFICIENCY Jesse Baker, Tom Cemo, and Scott Skamnes visited the Haiti Communitere Resource Center to locally source and build a 48 sq foot aquaponics system. Within the modular system, fish are raised symbiotically with plant production through a closed system that uses 90% less water than regular agriculture. By Haiti Communitere
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users
short term
continuous
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THE MAKER NETWORK
Mapping spaces
Mapping reusuable resources
Events
User profile
Residential
space profile
Content/Blog
Crowd Sourced
Spaces
Industrial
Commercial
maker profile
opportunities
reusuable materials & tools
Facilitate communication & collaboration mapping, events & social media
Sustainable resource sharing space, materials & skills
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2013 - “Created by Renee DiResta and Nick Pinkston, the open source DIY outlettracking Google Map tries to illuminate all the SF makerspaces and related establishments, dividing them by category and plotting them out geographically. The project, which started at a hackathon at DiResta’s office, is doubly open source. Not only do Pinkston and DiResta draw on the crowd for data (you can add resources that aren’t yet on the map), the whole project is forked on GitHub, so users can help develop the map itself.” • currently the last activity was 2 years ago • global focus
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“M3: Maribyrnong Maker Map 1. M3 will help local artisans and makers to know who is doing what in their community, to create connections and collaboration among local makers. This can support the competitiveness and effectiveness of maker enterprises in the Maribyrnong region. 2. M3 will also provide a map of resources currently being wasted, such as factory or commercial outputs, that could be useful for local makers as build resources. This will help makers transform waste into new products and works. 3. M3 will allow a greater appreciation for the regions rich qualities, locales, assets and people, and help the community and world re-visualise and appreciate the region in a new light.�
precedents
• smaller scale community focus
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According to OECD
AUSTRALIA
2002 2010
690kg PPY 986kg PPY or rubbish filling a 3-bedroom house annually
Largest producer of waste
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of landfills are by HOUSEHOLDS
Promoting Sustainable Options of Making
• Aside from encouraging industrial and commercial waste management. This platform aims at focusing on household waste management, as it occupies 50% of landfills. We are often omitted from the true extent of our social and ecological footprint, this engagment will show us that we all have the ability to act and to be mindful of the impact of our actions.
Sharing Reusable Resources
Crowd Source Mapping
• Engagement and integration of fringe communities and demographic: Creating a viable economic position for lower income earners, opportunities for young people and students to experiment with new crafts, and retiree to continue to being active within the community.
Accessible to Fringe Groups
Local & Cheap
Rapid Prototyping
HOUSEHOLDS
• Connect makers with local resources from waste materials, tools to skills. Offering the viability needed for makers to cheaply and quickly connect with resources. And engage private households and individuals to the practice of recycle, reuse, reduce. This ecosystem of resources is sustainable and cheap, promoting experimentation, risk taking, failing and in turn more chances for innovation. 19
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When compared to mass production processes, digital manufacturing has the potential to reduce material, waste and energy, at least for small batches, and may mitigate negative impacts connected to supply chains. However toxicity of especially additive manufacturing materials remains a concern, as well as the high energy consumption of digital fabrication.
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- ‘Anticipated environmental sustainability of personal fabrication’ (Cindy Kohtala, Sampsa Hyysalo)
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The participants in this study were well able to envision the future of making, but they appeared to differ in their capacity to anticipate environmental issues: those competent and interested in assessing environmental impacts were different people from those competent and interested in keeping track of rapidly evolving new technologies and materials for making. This gap in practitioner orientation and competence is therefore potentially problematic.
- ‘Anticipated environmental sustainability of personal fabrication’ (Cindy Kohtala, Sampsa Hyysalo)
maker space for disaster relief REX HAZARD EXAMPLE OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION USING LOCAL & REUSABLE RESOURCES MEDIA LAB MELBOURNE OPENLAB TALK 08.03.2015 & MEET UP 09.03.2015 MAKERS SPACES • Provides room for mistakes and therefore innovation • Adapt and change for current needs Government/ oversea aid initiatives often take longer due to restrictions & bureaucracy to build and fix. Makers spaces offer tools and space for locals to start the process before hand. • Haiti communitere • Philippines communitere INNOVATION THROUGH MAKERS SPACES • A large amount oxygen tanks were donated without connector parts. With the help of 3D printers the community were able to make customized connectors for the tanks to be used in hospitals • At one makers space there were a large amount of chain saws availiable that were hardly used. However over in another village there were an abundance of logs that needed to be cleared. A system was devised so that the loggers would be able to use the chain saws and the makers space would be able to use some of the logs. • After the disaster styrofoams were littered every where in the Phillippines. the materials were collected to be reused to 23
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RHoK ideation night identifying user personas
collaboration May 20th Presentation at RHoK Information night April 9th Application submitted
Meet Every six weeks to continue project MARCH
APRIL
March 24th Discussion about project with RHoK
April 15th Presentation at RHoK Ideation night
MAY
FUTURE
May 30th-31st RHoK Hack-a-thon
Being an architect & design student, I have a limited skill set in coding and software developing. Hence to be able to make my project possible I needed to collaborate with people who possess the skills and knowledge that I don’t have and learn from them. This gave me the opportunity to be a part of the maker culture – collaborate, share and learn. My process began unintentionally through sharing my initial mapbox maker network map on a Facebook group for Melbourne makers. The map was greeted positively, as well as having members sending me through spaces to add to it. I was then introduced to a committee member of ‘Random Hacks of Kindness’ that was interested in helping me take the project further. Being involved with RHoK took me out of my comfort zone and taught me a lot more about leadership and collaboration.
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5 ‘CHANGEMAKER’ PROJECTS @ RHoK HACK-A-THON 26
EVERYONE ON THE DAY
PITCH AFTER HACKATHON
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team and tasks
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1. first mapping of makerspaces with online research
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With already established makerspaces, how do we create new ones that support the existing system? do they know about each other? does locality determines the type of skills and tools available? can we create a database to support this growth?
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2. Mapping with localised knowledge (crowd source)
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MAP
before RHoK hackaton initital conceptual user experience design
MAKERSPACES CO-WORKING SPACE SKILLED SPECIALISTS RESOURCES - BUSINESSES MISPLACED RESOURCES WORKSHOPS
BLOG - UPDATES ON THE MAKER COMMUNITY
MAKER FAIRES STARTUPS INNOVATIVE COMPANIES SCHOOLS-CONNECT LIBRARIES MOBILE MAKERSPACE MOBILE TOOL LIBRARIES
PROMO SPACE FOR STARTUPS
EVENTS/WORKSHOP LISTING
OTHER OPPORTUNITIES..
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Outcome at RHoK hackathon
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archievements at RHoK hackathon • Leveraging the work from http://themakermap.com/ • Replacing the backend of an existing system for robustification of data source, providing platform for growth • Proposed integration into their platform • Planned feature set for future releases and continued growth…
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future planning • Translate what makers love into blog content • Helping fringe communities to find their strengths (e.g shape future of young kids) • Tighter integration with 3rd parties • social; this is social at its core • meetup.com, kickstarter for potential commercialisation • create maker profiles for a personal content experience
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Launch Page shows a board of activities offered on the site + Space + Materials
MAKER NETWORK e.g. timber, makerspace...
UPCOMING EVENTS
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TODAY • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location TOMORROW • 9:00 Maker faire @ location JUNE 1st • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location JUNE 2nd • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Maker faire @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location
BLOG
A VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTHER SEES HER ULTRASOUND THANKS TO 3D PRINTING A Huggies-sponsored clip showing visually impaired mother-to-be Tatiana Guerra as she “sees” her unborn child for the first time with a 3D printed ultrasound has racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube. A São Paulo-based digital production outfit known as “The Goodfellas” ...Read more » By George LeVines, 05/17/2015 @ 4:54 pm HAITI COMMUNITERE: ECOEFFICIENCY Jesse Baker, Tom Cemo, and Scott Skamnes visited the Haiti Communitere Resource Center to locally source and build a 48 sq foot aquaponics system. Within the modular system, fish are raised symbiotically with plant production through a closed system that uses 90% less water than regular agriculture. By Haiti Communitere
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+ Space + Materials
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blog content layout
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BLOG
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TODAY • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location
A VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTHER SEES HER ULTRASOUND THANKS TO 3D PRINTING A Huggies-sponsored clip showing visually impaired mother-to-be Tatiana Guerra as she “sees” her unborn child for the first time with a 3D printed ultrasound has racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube. A São Paulo-based digital production outfit known as “The Goodfellas” ...Read more » By George LeVines, 05/17/2015 @ 4:54 pm HAITI COMMUNITERE: ECOEFFICIENCY Jesse Baker, Tom Cemo, and Scott Skamnes visited the Haiti Communitere Resource Center to locally source and build a 48 sq foot aquaponics system. Within the modular system, fish are raised symbiotically with plant production through a closed system that uses 90% less water than regular agriculture. By Haiti Communitere
TOMORROW • 9:00 Maker faire @ location JUNE 1st • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location
A VISUALLY IMPAIRED MOTHER SEES HER ULTRASOUND THANKS TO 3D PRINTING A Huggies-sponsored clip showing visually impaired mother-to-be Tatiana Guerra as she “sees” her unborn child for the first time with a 3D printed ultrasound has racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube. A São Paulo-based digital production outfit known as “The Goodfellas” ...Read more » By George LeVines, 05/17/2015 @ 4:54 pm
JUNE 2nd • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 13:00 Arduino @ location • 14:00 3D printing @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location
HAITI COMMUNITERE: ECOEFFICIENCY Jesse Baker, Tom Cemo, and Scott Skamnes visited the Haiti Communitere Resource Center to locally source and build a 48 sq foot aquaponics system. Within the modular system, fish are raised symbiotically with plant production through a closed system that uses 90% less water than regular agriculture. By Haiti Communitere
JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location JUNE 2nd • 9:00 Maker faire @ location • 12:00 Making for kids @ location
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MAKER NETWORK arduino
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SPACE TANK Makerspace | Co-working
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ABOUT: ”Space Tank is a studio by and for creatives. Located in Melbourne’s inner north, the studio is inspired by Melbourne’s flourishing underground arts scene and by Holger’s desire to get involved in a more direct way with creative people. In the experience of the Space Tank team, there are three main services that are in great demand by people who make things: machinery, technology, and a space to work in! The nature of supply and demand however means often creative people cannot get access to what they need. Enter Space Tank Studio. The organisation aims to develop a more level playing field by providing a one stop workshop and studio concept that democratises the use of space and equipment.”
SPACES -
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MAKERSPACE RETAIL SERVICE
MATERIALS + EVENTS +
TOOL: 3D print, laser cut, arduino, EVENTS: 3D print, laser cut, woodwork, metal work, maker faire, make for kids.
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PART TWO MAKERSPACES | STRATEGIC DESIGN 38
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Design a spatial system for a makerspace that will inform a better community and sustainable practice
Makerspaces > shipping containers > installations Accessible to everyone,space for creating, learning & teaching
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Sturdy, durable, modularity, transport, lightweight, availibilty, cost, sustainability.
Create conversation & awareness
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Mobile makerspace for limited time frames. Travels to schools/ community/businesses with spaces that can only be accessed at certain hours e.G. After school/weekends
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Temporary & Minimal space. Temporary makerspace - For festivals - Test drive intervention - Easily removed
Community’s decision to create a permanent yet flexible makerspace. - Upgrade on temporary spaces - Successful integration - Crating a community engagement center - Permanent and sustainable
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In strategic design, synthesis suggests resolving into a course of action, whereas analysis suggests a presentation of data. Analysis tells you how things are, at least in theory, whereas synthesis suggests how things could be.
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- Dan Hill
..is the “meta”, the invisible context. Strategic design must be able to engage with the messy politic and reorientate the architecture of society.
TROJAN HORSES
... “contains the seeds of multiple strategic outcomes; the Platform elements enable those strategic outcomes to be diffused elsewhere, with prototyping of different layers ensuring its ongoing development”
dark matter & trojan horses a strategic design vocabulary
DARK MATTER
by dan hill
Strategic design is predicated on exactly this positioning: inside not outside, long-term not short, the pig not the lipstick
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MAKERSPACES | STRATEGIC DESIGN • Provide a physical connection to the community • Open source education - build skills & social equity • Using containers for mobility, sustainability, costefficiency & a modular construction. • Create temporary installation on the makerspaces to promote the maker culture. • Introducing the maker culture into schools and fringe communities. • Utilizing unoccupied spaces temporarily. • Better accessibility for remote communities and lowfunding schools • Locate areas that don’t have a makerspace presence • Use as much usable resources to make installation
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Programs for
UNI STUDENTS & GRADUATES INSTALLATIONS
OPEN SOURCE EDUCATION
to learn and teach.
reflecting the possibility of using makerspaces
VACANT SPACES
used to temporarily facilitate makerspaces
MAKERSPACES
MOBILE
TEMPORARY
PERMANENT
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UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | WHY? Students from universities will provide the staffing as well as professionals. Provide a seamless transition for graduates who identify themselves as makers in transitioning into the working environment with skills. Continue to encourage graduates’ curiosity, experimental and innovative mind set beyond their years as a student. Provide an environment for students to practice their skills and those in the industry to be upto date with new technology and methods
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Stakeholders • Shipping container businesses • Schools • City councils • Technology companies • Businesses who invest in sustainable ventures • Waste management companies • Vacant land owners
Users? Everyone! Accessibility: Fringe communities • Young people • Students • Low income earners • People with disabilities • Retirees • Rural towns • Post-disaster
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INTITUTION LIBRARY? EXHIBITION CENTRE?
STUDENTS/ GRADUATES
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MAKER IN RESIDENCE
PUBLIC TRANSPORT
SCHOOL? CAFE/ INTERNET CAFE
MAKERSPACE SCHOOLS
STARTUP/S
MOBILE MAKER HUB/S
DISASTER RELIEF
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ARTISAN STORE/S SMALLER COMMUNITIES
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MISPLACED RESOURCES
intial reorientation of makerspace
research questions for part B
QUESTIONS FOR CURRENT MAKERSPACES • How has this makerspace tackled sustainability and efficiency? • How are your materials sourced? e.g. locally? recycled? • Would you like more information on the types of resources available? • What are the current type/proffession of people using the space? • What other skills/program would you like to introduce within the makerspace? • What out of the norm skills/program have been developed due to the space? • Have the space grown? and how has it? • How has your community benefited from this space?
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THE LARGEST GROWING AREA TO PRODUCE MAKERSPACES ARE
LIBRARIES
PROVIDES BETTER ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY AN ALREADY ESTABLISHED FORM OF COMMUNITY OLD WAYS OF LEARNING COMBINED WITH NEW WAYS
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community & mobile makerspace precedents
The Makerspace at Fayetteville Free Library 51
MEN’S SHED Established in the 90’s to PROMOTE HEALTH & WELL-BEING IN MEN -increase social interaction & quality of life. - tasks including “restoring furniture and fixing lawn mowers” however, the organisation has evolved to include all age and gender
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MIT mobile fab lab, started 2007
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FryskLab Mobile fablab in a old librarybus
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Make with Moto
Spark truck, staffed by students from Stanford to promote early creativity before high school
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MOBILE MAKERSPACE/ TOOL LIBRARY DISASTER RELIEF
COMMUNITERE IN HAITI & PHILIPPINES MOBILE TOOL LIBRARY
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POST-DISASTER CHRISTCHURCH: MAKERCRATE > PERMANENT FABLAB
MOBILE MAKERSPACE/ TOOL LIBRARY FOR SCHOOL/COMMUNITIES THAT CAN NOT AFFORD A FABLAB OR ARE NEW TO THE CONCEPT OF MAKERSPACES
THE ONLY FABLAB AVAILABLE IN A VICTORIAN HIGHSCHOOL
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shipping containers | why?
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shipping containers | sustainable intervention precedents
james & maus architects infiniski manifesto house Bioclimate & modular architecture
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phooey architects children’s activity centre exposed materials showcases the true contruction and upcycling of container.
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lot-ek puma city temporary & modular that has all the services needed for habitation
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shigeru ban architects normadic museum majority of the containers are sourced in the local area as the museum travels around the world
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melbourne international design week an example of the flexibility and mobility of shipping containers in high density area e.g Melbourne CBD
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these are the projects we do together testing grounds an example of government supported art hub that lease out temporary vacant spaces . and designer’s use of pallets and modified shipping containers
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site visit shipping containers | sustainable intervention
• $2500 Per containers + $300 for transportation • modification with structural integrity intact • Testing grounds was given 2 years to run the space, now it has been extended to 5 years. • The designers are now planning to build more permanent structures to cater for the influx of activity - phasing out containers
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3000 acres victoria Example of temporary Vacant sites used for urban farming
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SBS interactive map youth unemployment helps analyse and prioritise which community might need a makerspace intervention
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CBD Denser development & limited space SOLUTION Schools on the fringe of the CBD or public places can provide the space for multiple schools to interact in. OUTER METROPOLITAN AREA Less dense + more space SOLUTION All schools will be on rotation in the week, the programs welcomes all students from the municipal to interact and collaborate as a community. COUNTRY TOWNS Isolated from neighboring schools . SOLUTION Schools + wider community = Longer visits
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makerspace for schools spatial analysis An excel file of all the highschools in Victoria was imported on to google mymaps. A selection of schools were analysed on the amount of space it could providE for makerspaces and it’s local context to incoporate other schools or the wider community
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Plug in to charge your devices with solar power
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future | proposal & exploration
The design of the shipping containers for temporary spaces and its transition to long term community spaces will be better clearly designed as a kit-of-parts. For the mobile makerspace, a bus or van seems like a better suited option than a truck with shipping container due to travel cost and space efficiency 78
Implimenting modular structures that understands structural systems, services, layout, & equipments.
Funding and maintenance How to create profit to maintain space? Rent out part of the maker space to businesses Creating a fablab aim at those who don’t have time to use the space but has the money to use the service
Business/financial approach Donations • Tech companies etc. Government funding • Melbourne city small business funding Renting the makerspaces out to industries, businesses & city councils • Programs, Equipments, Service... Create a pitch for kickstarter or grants 79
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