Dr Michael Smyth M.Smyth@napier.ac.uk
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Making and Unfinishedness: Designing Toolkits for Negotiation
Smyth, Michael; Helgason, Ingi
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Dr Ingi Helgason i.helgason@napier.ac.uk
Lecturer
Abstract
The diffusion and democratisation of computing technologies and physical prototyping systems has supported the rise of Do-It-Yourself culture. In the context of design innovation, this shift has undoubtedly blurred the lines between the roles of amateur and professional. Crowdsourcing platforms providing easily accessible, lightweight services to promote and fund ideas for new products can potentially radically compress the timescale from new concept generation to market. However, questions are emerging around these adjustments in the roles of amateur and professional, and to what extend individual makers and their communities can participate in, and benefit from, this new landscape. This paper will examine this situation using the framing of a “toolkit design and development” approach. We discuss the toolkit approach by drawing on the work of a current cross-European, interdisciplinary, collaborative project that is developing a technology toolkit to enable creation of locally based DIY networking systems.
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 20, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | Sep 6, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jul 28, 2017 |
Deposit Date | Sep 8, 2017 |
Publicly Available Date | Sep 11, 2017 |
Journal | The Design Journal |
Print ISSN | 1460-6925 |
Electronic ISSN | 1756-3062 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | sup1 |
Pages | S3966-S3974 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352899 |
Keywords | Toolkits, maker culture, do-it-yourself, networking, pleasure, |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/985503 |
Contract Date | Sep 8, 2017 |
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© 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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