Three stories narrate professional and design practices that expand the Galaxy of Design, testifying to comprehensive experimental approaches, from the products produced, to the languages and techniques employed, to the themes and meanings. A studio, a scholarly research agency and a professional, who further shift and shred the boundaries of the discipline. The first is Superflux, which takes us to an experimental and speculative dimension, working on multimedia narratives in which the artifact becomes a programmatic, post-tech narrative pretext, representative of a consistently decentralized vision of man in the Planet. Forensic Architecture, which using digital technologies to analyze the built environment, places design as a methodological approach at the service of investigations of human rights violations. Finally Thomas Thwaites, for whom the project (which can be performance, device, installation or film) is always about finding answers to fundamental questions about our relationship with time, technology and nature.
The article aims to investigate the evolutionary dynamics and critical issues emerging around makerspace communities, collaborative design and prototyping spaces whose practices have radically impacted the world of education, enterprise and social innovation.
Through an exploratory approach, experts from the maker movement and design students have been involved to understand the health of the model underlying makerspaces. The perspective of the research is to graft the debate on the forms of these practices into the dichotomy between physical and digital, socialization practices of design and the ability of these bottom-up models to work on complex solutions.
A list of recurring conditions occurring at the time of the creation of these communities has been elaborated. The discussion then covers risks and limitations of the physical dimension of makerspaces in relation with digitization of operations and relations at every level, calling for a necessary re-thinking of co-design practices.
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