Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting

Moriwaki, Katherine; Brucker-Cohen, Jonah

doi:10.1007/s00146-006-0036-7

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“…Other work ( [11,19,21]) has focused specifically on the workshop format. A useful counterpoint is provided by Wakkary et al [33], who highlight the difficulties of reproducing electronic projects from tutorials.…”

Section: Engaging Novices With Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices

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Buechley

Resnick

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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This paper explores personal fabrication as a means of engaging new audiences in the creation of electronic devices, which play an ever-increasing role in our lives but which most people have little involvement in creating. We describe a six-session workshop in which eight participants made wificonnected devices through the design and fabrication of custom printed circuit boards. We explore the implications of using components and processes analogous to those in commercial products, as opposed to the limited set of higherlevel building blocks found in toolkits for hobbyist electronics. We highlight unique advantages and challenges of a personal fabrication approach. We explore the role of attitudes in identifying a suitable audience for these activities. We discuss insights into commercial electronic products offered by personal fabrication and explore its role in a world of massproduced electronic devices. Finally, we suggest opportunities for future tools and technologies.

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Section: Engaging Novices With Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices

Mellis

Buechley

Resnick

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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“…For example, the practice of circuit bending [7] encourages people to hack existing musical devices in order to create new interfaces and sounds. The Scrapyard Challenge [14] series of workshops similarly encourages participants to reuse existing objects to create interfaces for musical control. In [10], the authors discuss methods for rapidly creating interfaces from cardboard, tinfoil, and pushpins.…”

Section: Craft Approaches To Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Microcontrollers as material

Mellis

Jacoby

Buechley

et al. 2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction

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Embedded programming is typically made accessible through modular electronics toolkits. In this paper, we explore an alternative approach, combining microcontrollers with craft materials and processes as a means of bringing new groups of people and skills to technology production. We have developed simple and robust techniques for drawing circuits with conductive ink on paper, enabling off-theshelf electronic components to be embedded directly into interactive artifacts. We have also developed an set of hardware and software tools -an instance of what we call an "untoolkit" -to provide an accessible toolchain for the programming of microcontrollers. We evaluated our techniques in a number of workshops, one of which is detailed in the paper. Four broader themes emerge: accessibility and appeal, the integration of craft and technology, microcontrollers vs. electronic toolkits, and the relationship between programming and physical artifacts. We also expand more generally on the idea of an untoolkit, offering a definition and some design principles, as well as suggest potential areas of future research.

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“…Scrapyard Challenge is a series of workshops where participants build small computational objects out of discarded electronics parts (Moriwaki and Cohen 2006). Scrapyard Challenge is a series of workshops where participants build small computational objects out of discarded electronics parts (Moriwaki and Cohen 2006).…”

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Workshopping Participation in Music

Parkinson

Tanaka

2013

Org. Sound

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This paper presents a process-based approach to considering workshops as a route to participation in collective creative musical practice. We evoke the notion of the Music One Participates In, which focuses on a shift from the listeneras-consumer to participant-actor actively engaged in sound perception and production. We look at the range of different methods that make up the term 'workshop', as well as emergent relationships between facilitator and participant in creative do-it-yourself activities to frame our discussion of participatory music practice. We then examine the nature of participation across a range of disciplines from social and cognitive science through human computer interaction to radical and contemporary art, and identify possible contradictions in horizontal utopian organisational models. With this conceptual frame as a backdrop, we present four types of workshop that we have conducted across time at different sites with diverse groups of participants. We apply concepts from the participation literature to analyse our music workshops, and attempt to reconcile the potentially diverging agendas of facilitator and participant to arrive at a process-based view of 'workshopping'.

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Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting

Cited by 11 publications

References 1 publication

Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices

Engaging Amateurs in the Design, Fabrication, and Assembly of Electronic Devices

Microcontrollers as material

Workshopping Participation in Music

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