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Re: Open Design - request for theses

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Camille Bosqué <[log in to unmask]>

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Hello,


Cindy, you did a great job! It's really interesting to see this list.

Although it's in French, you can also add my PhD thesis if you want.
The link to download it is on my website: http://www.camillebosque.com/these

And here below is the abstract (in English) of my reasearch.


All the best from France, hope to see you again soon!


Camille Bosqué


Personal digital fabrication, discourses and practices of diffuse design
A survey into FabLabs, hackerspaces and makerspaces between 2012 and 2015


Abstract:
FabLabs, hackerspaces and makerspaces are shared workshops, equipped with digital tools and organised in a network. These places are connected to the maker movement and are heirs to hackers. They offer themselves as places where anybody can come and make anything. In spite of some strong media coverage, the reality of discourses and practices that occur in those places has not yet been much studied.

This dissertation in Aesthetics and design is based on a large ethnographic survey conducted between 2012 and 2015, in France and abroad. A series of interviews and drawn observations allows for a critical description of the ways of doing that can be witnessed on these fields.
Practices, discourses and ambitions of personal digital fabrication are built in the margins of the classical fields of industry and design, blurring their historical frames.

The first part of this dissertation retraces the origins of FabLabs as well as of the maker and hacker movements. First hand data and classical accounts reveal how American counter-culture and the technophile ambitions of MIT researchers result in diverging local appropriations.
The rehabilitation of pleasure at work and the heritage of the Arts and Crafts both point to these places as fields of social experimentation, beyond mere production.

In the second part, this dissertation focuses on the values of openness and sharing advocated by contemporary amateurs, tinkerers, makers or inventors. The hypothesis of a design that could be open, participative, out of the standards of industrial mass production is examined. « Open design » places the production of artefacts in the wake of open source. This type of production ends up shaping a new, though hazy, field for design.

The third part studies the promises and contradictions that surround the democratization of innovation and production. 3D printing is taken as an emblematic case study to consider the ambivalences behind the emancipation expected by representatives of the maker movement.
These indecisive practices feed the branches of what we might call 'diffuse design'. It develops itself by trial and error in amateur communities and reaches creative activities of invention, conception and fabrication.

The rhizomatic area of diffuse design comprises rather plain objects, situated in the margins of industry. According to this definition, they are produced in an open and documented way, in order to explore and contribute to the discovery of digital fabrication technologies. Diffuse design is not a closed paradigm, but turns away from instituted norms and offers an open and exploratory conception of fabrication.

Key words : FabLab, personal digital fabrication, maker, hacker, 3D printing, design, drawn ethnography, non standard, tinkering, workshop, amateur, do-it-yourself



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De : PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design <[log in to unmask]> de la part de Cindy Kohtala <[log in to unmask]>
Envoyé : lundi 23 janvier 2017 22:52
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Objet : Re: Open Design - request for theses

Hi all

Thanks to all who replied to my request.
I've compiled the theses here:
https://blogs.aalto.fi/makerculture/2017/01/24/doctoral-dissertations-and-masters-theses/

all the best
Cindy

Cindy Kohtala
Postdoc researcher, Department of Design
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Helsinki, Finland
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On 17 November 2016 at 17:14, Cindy Kohtala <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm collecting information on Master's and doctoral theses on Open Design.
> If you know of one / have written one, please send me the info. If
> there is a direct link to the work, that would be great.
> You can email me directly and then I can list all the publications in
> a blog entry, for everyone's information.


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