A Schnittmuster for Crafting Context-Sensitive Toolkits

Meissner, Janis Lena; Strohmayer, Angelika; Wright, Peter; Fitzpatrick, Geraldine

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173725

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“…Learning from and standing with these makers, technology researchers have also brought together ideas of craft, technologies, and activism. For example, by developing reflecting on lightweight design interventions (Fox et al 2020), mobile applications (Rosner and Ryokai 2010), using electronic textiles as part of protest movements (Posch 2017), or by building theoretical frameworks about making (Meissner et al 2018).…”

Section: Digitally Augmented Craft Practices For Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Crafting, Quilting, and Social Justice

Strohmayer

2021

Digitally Augmenting Traditional Craft Practices for Social Justice

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In this chapter, I chart a history of sewing and quilting in particular relate to issues of social justice. I document experiences of oppression in Chile and China before honing in on histories of sewing in the North of England and how women have used quilting as a way of making a personal statement. Bringing this idea of advocacy through sewing into the world of electronic textiles, I draw out opportunities for these two disparate approaches to craft can come together in the context of sex work research. To conclude this chapter, I highlight how participatory e-textiles making can help document, unravel, and advocate for changes in oppressive systems towards more socially just worlds.

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Section: Digitally Augmented Craft Practices For Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Crafting, Quilting, and Social Justice

Strohmayer

2021

Digitally Augmenting Traditional Craft Practices for Social Justice

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“…One key benefit of integrating crafting into Craftec is that older adults participate in crafts already (some list it as their favorite activity [55]), making it ideal for expanding maker technology to them. Crafting can bridge between diverse groups and maker electronics as craft-focused toolkits have demonstrated [10,39,47]. Crafters can select the Hard toolkit for projects like woodworking, or the Soft toolkit for softmediums, such as fabric.…”

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Craftec

Jelen

Freeman

Narayanan

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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We present Craftec, an extendable toolkit system to engage older adults in maker technology by supporting their use of crafting skills. Craftec is comprised of LilyPad Arduino-based toolkits to promote easier crafting with hard and soft mediums. We describe the system's design, a pilot test with 8 younger adults, and 2 two-hour single session workshop evaluations by 17 older adults. We found Craftec facilitated efficient integration of circuits in crafted items, including fewer short circuits as compared to a basic LilyPad Arduino kit. We discuss how to create a toolkit for prototyping rather than facilitating STEM education.

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“…Cayley MacArthur, Caroline Wong, and Mark Hancock makerspaces [30,49] and crafting [20,38], for their potential for informal learning about issues concerning design, coding and material assembly.…”

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Makers and Quilters

MacArthur

Wong

Hancock

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Recent efforts to diversify participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activities through informal learning environments, such as hackathons and makerspaces, confirm a real desire for inclusion among potential female participants. However, understanding factors that may contribute to longer-term, sustainable diversification of such groups remains a challenge. In this paper, we present the results of a mixed-methods study of two microcosms of making: game development, and quilting. Our findings reveal parallel structures within these groups despite being highly skewed towards male or female participation, respectively. Our results shed light on attitudes, behaviours, and experiences indicating that similar desires for wider community support among other factors exist in both groups, but these needs are not satisfied in the STEM context. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings as opportunities for rethinking how we design the environments that are meant to support design itself, considering the role of technology in these spaces, and prioritizing nurturing the development of the maker community beyond the maker space.

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A Schnittmuster for Crafting Context-Sensitive Toolkits

Cited by 19 publications

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