create! involving end-end-users, researchers and designers in hands-on prototyping

CREATE! Involving end-end-users,

researchers and designers in hands-on prototyping

Frank Kresin & Dick van Dijk

Waag Society

29 september 2010

QUEST

• How can hands-on design-thinking be employed by your company or institution?

• What do you need for this and what are the gains?

PROGRAMME

• Introduction• Presentation:

Fablabs• Assignment• Cases• Group assignment• Conclusions

“Once you start drawing or making things,you open up new possibilities of discovery.

Doodling, drawing, modeling.Sketch make things, and you're likely to

encourage accidental discoveries. At the mostfundamental level, what we're talking about

is play, about exploring borders.”

Collaborations between- Users- Designers- Programmers- Artists & Scientists

Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

OPEN CONTENT

OPEN SOFTWARE

OPEN HARDWARE

FAB LABMission

Fablabs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication.

AccessYou can use the Fab lab to make almost anything (that doesn't hurt anyone); you must learn to do it yourself, and you must share use of the lab with other uses and users.

EducationTraining in the fab lab is based on doing projects and learning from peers; you're expected to contribute to documentation and instruction.

Phidget Interface kit

Light sensor

Rotation sensor

Slider RFID tagged objects

RFID reader

Personal Power Planthttp://www.instructables.com/id/personal-powerPlant/

SelfCity Wearablehttp://fablab.waag.org/selfcity

MooiMuishttp://fablab.waag.org/mooimuis/

ChocoPIhttp://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1719/ & http://chocopi.blogspot.com/

Prosthetics Workshophttp://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1943

PRINCIPLES

The best producer is the actual user

He/she can learn to build almost anything

Share blueprints & stand on the shoulders of others

A network of Fablabs over the world (more than 60)

Connected by video conferencing links

ASSIGNMENT (5 min)make the best paper glider – in pairs

CASES

• Empathic conversations: Zuidzorg

• Thinking through building: Express to connect

• Creating future scenarios: Design for your future self (PICNIC)

Design research: Zuidzorg

• Developing new services supporting independent living at home

• Target audience 75+• Consortium of healthcare institutions in the South of

The Netherlands (Municipality of Geldrop-Mierlo, PuntExtra, Zuidzorg and Ananz)

• With STBY as partner in Design Research

www.waag.org/zuidzorg

Design inspiration: ethnografic research

Zuidzorg

Ideation: co-creation workshops

Zuidzorg

Concept validation: scenarios & workshops

Zuidzorg

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• Developing and deploying a service, which facilitates personal storytelling and interest-based connections and communication among elderly people

• Empowering them and enriching their life

• Preventing the internal experience of loneliness as this is strongly associated with dissatisfaction with life

• www.waag.org/e2c

Co-creation and validation: Express to connect

Co-creation workshop: LEGO Realplay

Deepening understanding: interviews

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Clustering data Processing findings

Validation of research and ideation

Design for your future self - PICNIC

SUMMING UP

• What makes a goodprototyping assignment?

• How can hands-ondesign-thinking beemployed by yourcompany or institution?

• What do you need forthis and what are thegains?

ASSIGNMENT (10 min)

• Explore, in sets of two people, the potential added value of hands-on prototyping for your business goals

• Keep a log of your conversation (make it visual)

• Present your conclusions to the group

CineGrid Workshop

Frank Kresin

http://fablab.waag.orghttp://www.waag.orgfrank@waag.orgdick@waag.org