This year for the first time there was a workshop at CHI in conjunction with Dorkbot: DIY for CHI Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization. The workshop coincided with the 27th annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) ACM SIGCHI 2009 held in Boston, USA this year 4-9 April. The workshop seemed like a [...]
Read Full Post...April 14, 2009
Philip Ball in an interview with Jennifer Leonard (for the book Massive Change): “It’s about moving away from the classical idea of materials – inert stuff that serves a structural role – toward the more contemporary notion of materials. More and more, materials are active and respond to stimuli in their environment. Materials can light [...]
Read Full Post...April 13, 2009
OpenMaterials is a collaborative research project dedicated to open investigation and experimentation with DIY production methods and uses of materials. In the spirit of the open source software and hardware movements, we hope to promote materials to be researched and developed in a public, collaborative manner. We see materials as an open resource, and wish [...]
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April 22, 2009
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