Maker culture, co-creativity and collaborative teaching practices

Abstract

Design Thinking recognizes different contributions on collective creativity applied to project processes. It assumes that creativity can be considered as co-creativity or as a shared intervention, supported by actions of a participatory nature and collective collaboration that interacts with the initial creation, mutates based on interventions of others, and offers alternatives for the recreation of processes and results. With a clear trend from mono-disciplinary practices towards interdisciplinarity, we present a teaching practice carried out at the Industrial Informatics Workshop 2 with product orientation, in the course for Industrial Design FAUD UNMdP, Argentina. It was based on previous experiences reformulated from the perspective of a Maker Culture. There has been a focus on the design and redesign of an everyday object/machinery based on low complexity mechanisms. It was solved by 3D mechanical parametric modeling, rapid prototyping using different digital manufacturing technologies (3D printing, milling and laser cutting) and different communication modes. It is important, from a virtual perspective of post-digital environments interconnected to the Web, to present the methodology used as a possibility to contribute to teaching practices tending towards the exploration, formulation and practice of collaborative creation ecosystems that improve collaborative learning techniques.