A Systematic Review on FabLab Environments and Creativity: Implications for Design

Soomro, Suhail Ahmed; Casakin, Hernán; Georgiev, Georgi V.

doi:10.3390/buildings12060804

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“…Makerspaces and digital fabrication are ideal environments to encourage and develop substantial aspects of creativity. These include person, product (design outcome), environment (physical and social), as well as process aspects of creativity (Soomro et al, 2022(Soomro et al, , 2023. Furthermore, digital fabrication spaces also contribute to fostering creative competence (Taheri et al, 2020) and creativity in co-design activities (Choi et al, 2022).…”

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Collaborative Teamwork Prototyping and Creativity in Digital Fabrication Design Education

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Digital fabrication laboratories play a role as an educational environment in which different learning activities incorporate advanced technological developments. Digital fabrication design education often involves exploratory and scaffolded processes of materialising ideas into products. However, FabLabs poses multiple challenges for pedagogy and design learning. Based on a large-scale digital fabrication course in a higher education institution, we examine whether teamwork carried out in a digital fabrication environment improves creativity. Furthermore, we analyse if teamwork affects self-assessment of learning activities involving building tangible artefacts. Finally, we examine whether the type of produced prototype affects the team's overall performance. The results allow for digital fabrication design education recommendations, including interventions intended for improving the creativity of the outcomes, team performance, and learning of different digital fabrication issues.

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“…Creativity refers to a person communicating a "new concept (which is the product). Mental activity (or mental process) is implicit in the definition, and of course no one could conceive of a person living or operating in a vacuum, so the term press is also implicit" (Rhodes, 1961, p. 305), one of the most wellknown definition, cited by many researchers, such as Soomro et al (2022). This means a person interacts with the press (a collective element based on Hofstede's cultural dimension theory), shaping his/her own individual culture (included in the individual element based on Hofstede's cultural dimension theory), as illustrated in Figure 1.…”

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Experience of Creativity and Individual Cultural Values in Ideation

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The influence of culture on design is reflected in many aspects, such as design creativity, communication within design groups, and individuals' creative performance. Culture has a profound impact on design. For example, studies have identified the positive effect of a higher individualism-collectivism value on design team performance. To examine the influence of individual cultural values on the experience of creativity in ideation, we experimented by recruiting participants from different counties to complete two ideation tasks. Moreover, we collected their cultural values and experiences of creativity through two questionnaires. We also examined the connections between individuals' cultural values and their experiences of creativity in ideation. The results show five correlations between individuals' cultural values and their experiences of creativity when the country setting was a control variable. Recommendations based on the findings include that explorations of cultural influence and the relationship between culture and design or other fields irrelated to the country or society level have to measure individual cultural values (with the country setting as a control variable) instead of adopting country cultural scores.

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“…In addition, their research revealed that design-build education fosters innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship in engineering. Studies have demonstrated that FabLabs and makerspaces have a good impact on the self-expression, inspiration, motivation, and creative capacities of their users through the provision of encouraging and supportive physical and social environments [15].…”

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MadFabLab: an inclusive STEM and fabrication environment for creativity and innovation and its impact on persons with disabilities

Othman¹,

Ahmed²,

Al-Mohannadi³

2022

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Fabrication laboratories (FabLabs) are utilized to materialize concepts. They can improve cognitive and creative abilities when used in a design-learning situation. Numerous studies have attempted to comprehend the relationship between makerspaces and creativity in a variety of disciplines, with the capacity to generate innovative consequences in makerspaces dependent on creativity. However, a comprehensive study that provides a holistic perspective on the contributions of labs as inclusive places that stimulate creativity for people with disabilities is absent. In order to address this study gap, the paper that follows provides an overview of FabLabs, makerspaces, and creativity and introduce the first of its kind MadaFabLab, as the first inclusive fablab in the world designed and tailored for innovators with disabilities "MadaFabLab". The studies revealed that fablabs contribute to the development of creative person, product, physical, and social surroundings, as well as creative process. In add ition, the MadaFabLab, a novel inclusive idea, fosters problem-solving, collaborative, and communication skills, and offers appealing locations and tools for the development of creative solutions to real-world challenges and needs identified by people with disabilities. We identified and analyzed five important themes pertaining to technical skills, technological and environmental factors, STEM learning, and skill development, and focused on their significance for fostering creativity in an inclusive FabLab.

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A Systematic Review on FabLab Environments and Creativity: Implications for Design

Cited by 20 publications

References 92 publications

Collaborative Teamwork Prototyping and Creativity in Digital Fabrication Design Education

Collaborative Teamwork Prototyping and Creativity in Digital Fabrication Design Education

Experience of Creativity and Individual Cultural Values in Ideation

MadFabLab: an inclusive STEM and fabrication environment for creativity and innovation and its impact on persons with disabilities

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