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Title: | Break-it, hack-it, make-it: the ‘Hack-a-Thing’ workshop series as a showcase for the integration of creative thinking processes into FabLab Genk | Other Titles: | Workshops as a showcase for the integration of creative thinking processes into FabLab Genk | Authors: | Dreessen, Katrien Schepers, Selina LEEN, Danny LUYTEN, Kris DE WEYER, Tom TAELMAN, Johannes |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Source: | Proceedings of A Matter of Design. Making Society through Science and Technology | Abstract: | FabLabs are mostly known for their problem-solving approach since they allow people to develop and perfect a prototype of ‘almost any product’, using the available infrastructure, facilities and knowhow (Mandavilli, 2006). Since 2012, FabLab Genk too has become a hotbed for problem-solving activities. FabLab Genk is situated in a creative context and is used by many media, arts and design students, researchers, designers and artists, for creating a wide variety of physical objects that they could otherwise only imagine. However, we noticed that the creative thinking processes that occur before the actual problem-solving do not take place within the environment of FabLab Genk. As a way of including these creative thinking processes into its environment, FabLab Genk organised a series of workshops called ‘Hack-aThing’. This paper shows how ‘Hack-a-Thing’ proved to be a setup that facilitates new ways of learning and creative thinking in the environment of FabLab Genk. First, this paper illustrates that the ‘Hack-a-Thing’ workshop series allowed FabLab Genk to become an environment that fosters a new, more informal and creative form of learning. Second, this paper shows how ‘Hack-a-Thing’ stimulated a more creative way of using and thinking, particularly about alternative relationships with technological objects. | Notes: | Corresponding author: Katrien Dreessen | e-mail: katrien.dreessen@khlim.be | Keywords: | FabLab; workshops; creative thinking processes; learning; thinking | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/16822 | ISBN: | 9789078146056 | Rights: | This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons: Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works - 2.5 Italian License (CC BY-NC-ND 2.5 IT). | Category: | C1 | Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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