DIY lives!

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Keywords:

DIY, digital fabrication, free design, commons based peer production, Sagui Lab

Abstract

The following paper addresses the issue of DIY (Do It Yourself) and the results of a digital fabrication workshop focused on Open Design culture and collaborative working. To develop this paper, a bibliographic review on DIY was done, describing its origin, decay and subsequent rebirth with the information and communication technologies and digital fabrication, that offer the possibility of emancipation of the individual facing of the current production model, recovering their ability to project their natural environment, and propose new ways of free or open production. At the end of this paper is presented an experience of a workshop on digital fabrication and DIY that took place at UNESP (Universidade Estadual Paulista - São Paulo State University), Bauru, SP, Brazil. The visual results of the process that describes the first steps on the new forms of production based on digital fabrication are also presented.

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Author Biographies

Edison Uriel Rodríguez Cabeza, Paulista State University

He is master in design. He studies sustainable design, open code, open design, free design, innovation and creative communities.

Mônica Moura, Paulista State University

She is PhD in Communication and Semiotic. Professor at Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação (FAAC); and at Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP). She coordinates research group “Design Contemporâneo: sistemas, objetos e cultura”. She studies contemporary design, relations between design and art, technology and digital media.

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Published

2014-12-10

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 10 (2015): V!10 DIY//Do It Yourself!

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Ágora