Citizen technoscience. From Open hardware to non-formal
practice.
Citizen technoscience.
From Open hardware to non-formal practice.
Marcin Zard
Open hardware
Raspberry Pi microcomputer, develop in OS form (35 USD).
2 millions of sold units.
Used in electronics education (University of Cambridge, DIY
tutorials)
Used in applications (University of Southhampton
supercomputer)
Open source ecology
Started in 2003 by Marcin Jakubowski.
Aims to provide blueprints and prototypes for 50 basic
agricultural or household machines.
Developed in open-source model (accessible blueprints, workshops
for profits).
Makers movement
Three generations of tinkerers or hackers.
Hackerspace non-formal science and engineering DIY
community.
Rise of hackerspaces (at least 6 places in Poland). Blending
with local tinkering tradition.
Make Magazine, Maker Corps major advocates.
Biotech research, biohacking, open source drug discovery.
Sources
Gershenfeld, N.A., Fab : the coming revolution on your
desktop--from personal computers to personal fabrication2005, New
York: Basic Books. x, 278 p.Zard, M. Non-formal science and
technology. Preliminary participant observation study of Fab-Lab d.
in Thinking with Hands, Eyes and Things. Trends in
interdisciplinary studies. 2013. Toru.Zard, M., Fabryka edukacji.
Laboratoria wytwrcze jako nowe narzdzie edukacji technicznej.
Edukacja Biologiczna i rodowiskowa, 2013(4): p. 38-44.Roosth, H.S.,
Crafting life : a sensory ethnography of fabricated biologies, in
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science,
Technology and Society.2010, Massachusetts Institute of Technology:
Cambridge, MA. p. 326.Rabinow, P. and G. Bennett, Designing human
practices : an experiment with synthetic biology2012. 203.
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