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CIVIC MAKINGConnecting makers to community
December 8, 2015Paul Treadwell@ptreadwell
Hello!I am Paul TreadwellI am Distance Learning Advisor at Cornell Cooperative Extension. I also work (when I can) with youth and technology in New York State, and Nicaragua.
My blog is at: http://paultreadwell.com
You can find me on Twitter: @ptreadwell
Civic making fuses the spirit & energy of the Maker Movement with youth development and service learning.
Defining our conversation
■ Civic – Of or relating to the duties or activities of people in relation to their town, city, or local area - OED online
■ Making - The process of making or producing something - OED online■ Maker Movement - the name given to the increasing number of
people employing do-it-yourself (DIY) and do-it-with-others ( DIWO) techniques and processes to develop unique technology products. - techopedia
Make, hack, fab, tinker and/or DIY■ Knowledge sharing■ Increasing availability of inexpensive hardware■ Sharing of expensive components ■ Evolution and also a reconnection
– Long history of DIY– Hacking – Crafting
MAKING IN, FOR, AND WITH
COMMUNITYFrom self-referential to tech transfer to participatory
development
Making in community
■ Organized spaces:– Makerspaces, fablabs, etc. as community.– Membership, norms, rules…..
Making in community
Knowledge sharing
Tool sharing
Cost sharing
Personal expression
Making for community:
■ I have an idea:– Making to solve an issue or problem
■ I have the expertise.■ Here is the thing I made to fix x.
I can fix that!
I see the problems
I see the solution
I’ll build the solution
Technology transfer
Making with community:
■ Making with community:– Making in consultation and collaboration with a specific
community to identify, define and solve an issue or problem.
We can…
Define the problem together
Develop solutions together
And do it again…
Participatory design and development
Technology as tool for change?
Making technology ‘appropriate’
Weaving technology and community action together■ Pilot session July 2015■ Youth gathered data about
community issues■ Design teams focused on an issue
and developed a prototype solution
■ Civic making seeks to enlarge the scope and impact of making in order to embed the practices and affordances a diy mindset into the reality of our lives as civic beings.
Civic makers pilot July 2015
Making for Sustainability – Technology, community and agriculture.■ Our focus for 2016:
– How does technology connect communities? How can the Maker Movement contribute to sustainability? During this session we’ll explore these questions in order to design and prototype technologies and systems for a vibrant, multifaceted community nexus.
– Some of the issues we’ll be exploring include: sustainability and innovative food production, community revitalization and the value of technology and its role in forging community. We’ll work with 3D Modeling, 3D printing, Arduino/RaspberryPi , littleBits, pen and paper and more to develop solutions to our design challenges.
– We’d love to have a mixed group of artists and tech savvy participants for this session. Help us build a diverse team for this community focused session.
Computational to procedural to community literacy■ Making is an act of agency. ■ Working with technology develops a mindset, a literacy.■ By developing an understanding of code, and coding practices,
participants will develop a procedural literacy that can then be used to understand, re-create and build a diverse range of systems, including technological, legal, governmental and social systems.
The praxis of civic making
■ It is critical reflection and action in order to transform reality.■ It creates an explicit relationship between:
– a concrete community with issues and needs – digital/computational literacy and maker mindsets
■ It is critical hope in action.
Inspirations and others doing similar■ IDEO – Human Centered Design
– https://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit■ Fab Labs and other MIT things
– https://www.fablabs.io/– http://littledevices.org/– And much more
■ Meaningful Making – Projects and inspirations from FabLabs and Makerspaces (pdf)– http://fablearn.stanford.edu/fellows/sites/default/files/Blikstein_Ma
rtinez_Pang-Meaningful_Making_book.pdf
Image credits
■ John Dewey - http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a51565/■ Making in community from:
http://www.msichicago.org/whats-here/fab-lab/■ I can fix that: http://
etc.usf.edu/clipart/72700/72765/72765_burroughs.htm■ All other photos - Paul Treadwell