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Posch, Irene1; Ogawa, Hideaki1; Lindinger, Christopher1; Haring, Roland1; Hörtner, Horst1, "Introducing the FabLab as interactive exhibition space" Interaction Design and Children: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Barcelona, Spain, 254-257, 2010. ISBN:978-1-60558-951-0 Abstract:
This paper introduces an approach to include a fab lab into an interactive exhibition space of a museum. Fab labs, as coined by Neil Gershenfeld, have established a great point of view for educational access to modern means of invention and technological empowerment. However realizations so far have been mainly focused on technical equipment and peer- to-peer project based training. Given the context of a museum, we focused on providing an open and easy for every visitor accessible design and fabrication space focusing on identified key elements like creative prototyping and shared creativity within the range of the realized integrative system. We describe our findings based on the work for the FabLab at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) in Linz, Austria. Copyright 2010 ACM.
Mandavilli, Apoorva, "Appropriate technology: Make anything, anywhere" Nature 442(7105), p862-864, 2006.
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The article offers an insight to technology can be creatively used. Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have launched 'Fab Labs' to demonstrate some creative uses of technology. Creative uses of technology are seen in agriculture, education, security systems and a whole array of other areas. It maintains that fab lab experimentation is yielding results and efforts are being made to expand it further to other regions all over the World.