Opening digital fabrication: transforming TechKnowledgies

This study analyses the field of open digital fabrication where novel digital capabilities and hopes for social transformation have merged to form arrangements that seek to democratise knowledge and technology through collaboration. Through qualitative social science the study analyses FabLabs and o...

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Main Author: Schneider, Christoph (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: KIT Scientific Publishing 2018
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Summary:This study analyses the field of open digital fabrication where novel digital capabilities and hopes for social transformation have merged to form arrangements that seek to democratise knowledge and technology through collaboration. Through qualitative social science the study analyses FabLabs and open source technologies and the respective collective procedures that produce and organise technology and knowledge that redefine the entanglement of our society and its technologies.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (VI, 145 p. p.)
ISBN:KSP/1000083485
9783731508052
Access:Open Access