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The Makers Collective
2015 MDIT MAJOR PROJECT PART B by TRACEY NGUYEN S3239142
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CONTENTS
maker culture | my journey
PORTFOLIO | PART B (Please refer to Part A for an overview)
PART ONE
the maker network | online platform
PART TWO
makerspaces | strategic design
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DIY Craftspeople Idea Makers
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This project emerges from an understanding of the Melbourne maker culture, and its relation to this movement globally on a local context. This exploration aims to highlight the importance of sharing resources, making and thinking as a community to remove misconceptions we have of different groups and individuals. By doing so we staart to localise solutions and minimise inefficiency and waste.
Connecting People
Smaller Scale Sharing knowledge and skills
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If you want to walk fast walk alone, if you want to walk far, walk together
MAKERSPACE
- African proverb
Throughout my travels around the Melbourne maker culture, I was able to visit and talk to both individuals and organisations from different parts of this community.
these spaces are a demonstration of its welcoming to everyone. With just your passion, willingness to learn and share is all that is needed to be part of this community.
The diversity of interpretations to what the definition of the maker culture is was very inspiring. The idea of community, sharing, the power to create change, and unrestricted learning have been key concepts that are shared between this movement. Whether or not a particular concept is celebrated more than others are influenced by the dynamic of the local landscape.
A strong example of the opportunities this approach can bring and its effectiveness time and time again can be seen in a six part documentary series called ‘How We Got to Now’. It reveals the story behind the remarkable ideas that made modern life possible – the unsung heroes that brought them into the world, and the unexpected consequences each of these innovations has triggered.
The diverse backgrounds of the makers within
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Meeting the makers
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Having the opportunity to talk at these events about my project and my take on the maker culture have allowed feedback and shown that there is a need for such a project to happen. The talks have also been a great source of networking, and better engagment with the people who are a part of the maker community.
FUTURE GREEN LEADERS by Green Building Council of Australia 8
TALKFEST: MAKE SESSION by CityLab & Melbourne Knowledge Week 9
Through my initial research of the Melbourne maker culture I feel that there is segregation between the different niches of makers, but we are starting to see a trend in groups trying to make these connections. It is also essential not to dilute the importance of differences that each group can bring into our community once these connections are being made. A lot of us are makers but not all of us identify with this word. Perhaps for this reason and other factors that there is a lack of knowledge and engagement from the general public.
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Therefore to aid this engagement of the wider community in to this culture and to further connect makers I have based my design and research project on ways to create better community development and sustainable innovation.
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MAKER NETWORK
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PROCESS of DEVELOPMENT
Instinctively, designing makerspaces would be the focus of this project.Yet, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a solution that I found pragmatic enough. This lead to envisioning an online platform that can better facilitate multidisciplinary collaboration and communication, create localised and sustainable ways of making, and engage the wider public in the sharing of skills, space, knowledge and materials.
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1: Initial mapping out of known makerspaces
2: Online & Physical crowd sourcing of related spaces
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THE MAKER NETWORK
Mapping spaces
Mapping reusuable resources
Events
User profile
Content/Blog
New York Maker Map
Crowd Sourced
Existing Spaces
CONTENT DESIGNING & PRECEDENTS RESEARCH
Vacant spaces
Industrial
Commercial
Residential
space profile
maker profile
BLOGS & FORUM
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VACANT SPACES 1000 ACRES
opportunities
skills, vacant spaces, reusuable materials & tools
Facilitate communication & collaboration mapping, events & social media
Sustainable resource sharing space, materials & skills
Knowledge sharing content, news & learning
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TEAM FTWARE DEV O S EL O Ben Puzzleduck Jerome Paul Jackie Ng Mei Brough-Smyth
November 18th RHoLL night
August 13th RHoLL night
May 20th Presentation at RHoK Information night
April 9th Application submitted
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Present & future
March 24th Discussion about project with RHoK
May 30th-31st RHoK Hack-a-thon
Meet Every six weeks to continue project through events called “RHoLL”
With no experience as a developer and in the spirit of the maker culture I collaborated with a team of volunteers from Random Hacks of Kindness, and we are currently designing the maker network. Through all volunteer efforts, it’s hard to keep a constant workflow. With this in mind I began learning how to design as a user experience designer.
April 15th Presentation at RHoK Ideation night
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BETA VERSION 1.0 20
Created May 31st, 2015 with RHoK
BETA VERSION 1.1 • Better mobile interface
Updated August 13th, 2015 with RHoK • Catergory update
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CATERGORIES for MAPPING FORM 1: EVENTS 1. Workshop 2. Maker faire 3. Talks
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FORM 2: PLACES 1. Makerspaces 2. Co-working 3. Retail 4. Suppliers 5. Fabricator • Skills • Tools • Art • Textiles • Electronic • Mechanic • Woodwork • Metalwork • Environmental • Media • Hand tools • Power tools • Electronics • Media • 3d print • Laser cut • CNC • Labware • Metalwork • Woodwork
FORM 3: SHORT TERM RESOURCES TOOLS: • Hand tools • Power tools • Electronics • Media • 3d print • Laser cut • CNC • Labware • Metalwork • Woodwork MATERIALS • Textiles • Plastic • Wood • Metal • Electronics • Metamaterials • Composites • Ceramics • Concrete • Glass • Semiconductors • Organic • Aggregate • Paint • Homewares VACANT SPACE • Land • building
THE MAKER NETWORK
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ABOUT CONTACT US
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SEARCH THE MAKER NETWORK
UPCOMING EVENTS
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TODAY • 13:00 Arduino @ location
THE MAKER NETWORK
• 14:00 3D printing @ location TOMORROW
SEARCH THE MAKER NETWORK
• 9:00 Maker faire @ location JUNE 1st • 9:00 Garden + Technology @ location
• 12:00 Making for kids @ 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 »
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• 13:00 Arduino @ location JULY 22nd
NEWS & BLOG
NEWS & BLOG
• 9:00 Garden + Technology @ 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
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
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To help the developers understand my vision, I began prototyping using Adobe Illustrator and Indesign (static design). While researching about UX designing, I came across a high-fidelity tool to prototype with called Azure RP Pro 7.0. I used online tutorials to guide me through the use of the software, through this process I became more familiar with what is needed to go into designing a website. I found that this software helped bridge my skills from architectural design into website design and eventually into developing and coding.
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For a video of the dynamic prototying through Azure please refer to the video â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Maker Network - AZURE prototyping.mp4â&#x20AC;&#x2122;
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Create Profile page
Add Spaces Add Resources
Clicking through widgets • Add events • Join communities
News page
Launch page: overview of content • create profile • mapping space & other resource • events • news/blog
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The maker culture is fairly new to Australia and we havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to take full advantage of all its benefits. I hope that by firstly having a platform to connect makers in Melbourne and beyond through facilitating communication and collaboration. One example I personally experienced was that students and graduates transitioning into the work force lack the knowledge of connecting with the maker culture to continue their sense of exploration beyond student life. Which can cause most to abandon their sense of curiosity. San Francisco is the epicenter of this movement, and by example we see that makermap.com started to connect makers. And there is also a new social network called makerspace.com for people to share their projects online.
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If there are already things out there connecting makers, then why do we need another one? An extension to the idea, I believe that understanding where our resources come from and locally sourcing them is very important in tackling the inconveniences of consumerism. Therefore the second aim of this project is to 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.
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PART TWO MAKERSPACES | STRATEGIC DESIGN
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dark matter & trojan horses a strategic design vocabulary
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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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Strategic design is predicated on exactly this positioning: inside not outside, long-term not short, the pig not the lipstick
DARK MATTER
..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”
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a Sewing Machine
Laser Cutting
CNC Cutting
Laptops
1hr - 2days
Cupboard/Storage
Limited space - remote communities, Schools, markets Shelving
Projector
Cupboard
Over locker
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MOBILE MAKER HUB
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Textile
Electronics
3D Printer
Printer
Mobile maker hubs can be used to travel to schools, organisations (upskill/group work) and communities with little space or time restricted areas.
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GENERAL • basic makerspace • workbench • stools • storage • whiteboard/projector • printer 300x450 • laptops • materials • ventilation system
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ELECTRONICS • Electronic kits • aduino kits • soldering set ups TEXTILES • sewing machine 450mmx300mm • over-locker 350mmx390mmm DIGITAL FABRICATION • 3d printing 300mmx300mm • laser cutter 30 watts 600mmx300mm • desktop cnc 600mmx300mm
http://spaces.makerspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/hsmakerspacetoolsmaterials-201204.pdf
BASIC PROGRAM LIST
WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES & EQUIPMENTS
Workspace The working environment of the space creating the foundation for a safe, comfortable and clean working environment General Tools and materials common among and across modules that are useful on a wide range of projects Electronics Using electricity from the basics of circuit design through more advanced microcontrollers, robotics other electromechanical creations Textiles Working with flexible materials such as cloth, vinyl, leather, rope and string, including soft circuits and wearable electronics Computers The hardware and software necessary for modern planning, design and fabrication 3D Printing Additive manufacturing ability known as 3D printing which allows makers to create detailed, complex objects Laser Cutting The requirements for a laser cutter, which would provide the ability to cut and etch materials quickly and with high precision CNC Cutting The requirements for Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machines, which accurately cut and sculpt various materials
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Stage 1: Compacted
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3 days - 1 month Festivals, to travel in narrow streets but allows for expansion on site.
SEMI-OUTDOOR WORK AREA
Temporary hubs require more time and cost to set-up. Designed in a 6m shipping container, the expanded modification to the containers allows for more flexibility. This space caters for: - Areas with a restricted time frame, but a larger site area. - Multifunctional space that requires area flexibilty
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WHY SHIPPING CONTAINERS • Portable & temporary: to allow easier integration into the community - less time to build, temporary structure on vacant spaces with a restricted time frame. • Reusable & Eco-friendly due to the abundance in the transport industry: this factor links together with the sustainability push of the project. • Cost-effective depending on modification process: less funding needed = faster development of makerspaces for the community • Secure & Weather-, fire-, earthquake- resistant: together with portability and its cost-effectiveness, shipping containers are ideal for quick implementation worldwide in almost all conditions. • Modular & lightweight: due to the nature of its shape, adding different programs and redesign the space can be easily implemented.
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Time saving
Cost-effective
INFLATABLE
Custom built inflatable shelters designed for homeless people that attach to the exterior outtake vents of a buildingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The warm air leaving the building simultaneously inflates and heats the double membrane structure. Built and distributed to over 30 homeless people in Boston and Cambridge, MA and New York City.
PRECEDENTS
paraSITE // Michael Rakowitz
Space saving
HOW TO APPLY EFFECTIVE WAYS TO SHIPPING CONTAINER MODIFICATION?
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Inflatable office // Huong Ngo
A pop-up, inflatable studio, and she wants to share the space with another New York-based artist
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SpaceBuster // Raumlabor Berlin
temporary pneumatic event space
Balloon for two & Yellow Heart // Haus-Rucker-Co Inflatable concert hall // Arata Isozaki and Anish Kapoor
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The Ark Nova inflatable concert hall was conceived in the aftermath of the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
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PRECEDENTS
O2 Sustainability Treehouse // Dustin Feider ^ Modular Accordion House On Three Wheels // Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Architecture Office (PAO) Housing shortage in china due to migrants. this design is modular, allows for expansion and interconnection between units.
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Prefab Coat // Takehiko Sanada
Basecamp // Airstream
FOLDING STRUCTURES Digital Origami Tigers // Lava Architecture
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JNBY and COTTON USA fashion show // HHD_FUN architects
Tina Hovsepian // Cardborigami
Transformable temporary structure
Design for Disaster// The Accordion reCover Shelter
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FOLDING STRUCTURES
EXPLORATION: MODELS
Tessellated folds for flexibility not structurally rigid enough
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Accordion folds for rigidity modular form
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folded thickness
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The fanning point needs to be cap to close gap and allow even fanning
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Expanded form in two different positions
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2300mm radius
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Modular Configurations
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MATERIAL CHOICE Polypropylene Sheets: Benefits . mechanical properties . melt flow . colour stability . moisture barrier properties . minimal bacterial build-up . low-cost
COST of SHIPPING CONTAINERS - Bare shipping container = $2k approx - with insulated will = $3k approx - A modified workshop container = $15k approx. - Additional extensions and hydraulics = $15+ on top
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Therefore to create more space without the addition cost of more containers and extensions, these foldable lightweight structures can be used to create spaces for collaborations. This in turn encourages the concept of community and sharing.
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1month and beyond schools, remote communities, councils There are several ways to arrive at this stage. The mobile and temporary hub can act as the initial intervention in engaging the community and government. If either of these stake holders find value in the space provided an analysis of the spaces around the community will be made with the help of the MAKER NETWORK. A space will be chosen to host a shipping container makerspace as its foundation. From here the growth of the space will depend on the needs and skills provided by the local community. The shipping containers are provided as the seed, more permanent building types will take place according to the programs in the space
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
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Sunshine College - Wearable technology exhibition
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INTERNSHIPS/PLACEMENT The Maker Network aids the makerhubs by provide connections to other makerspace, makers, skilled people, organisations, resources needed for making, and locating the whereabouts of the mobile & pop-up spaces.
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SHARING WITH THE COMMUNITY
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“An essential element of the pop-up city is digital media, which generates new flows of fluctuating activity in cities and makes city work in a more efficient and variable mode. An army of service-oriented digital platforms is capable of filling in the spatial gaps and tying together different social realities.” pg 267
“Pop-up thinking breaks open the predefined set of spatial development partners, creating room for short term, issuecentered collaborations between governments and unusual parties that lead to surprising results. Short –term coalitions within projects promote a more responsive urbanism that recognizes the needs and desires of the populace, creating a customized and inclusive urban realm for all.” pg 269 “Cities need multifunctional spaces and place the can adapt to the unexpected uses”
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