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Digital design and fabrication workshop

Daniel K. Schneider, TECFA, Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, University of Geneva
Very rough draft
Geneva, July, 2016

Abstract

Physical visualizations (or physicalizations) can promote cognition through a variety of mechanisms, notably easier perception, hands-on manipulation and enhanced interaction with other participants. We can distinguish several types of physical visualizations, according to three dimensions: active/passive, kit/whole, digitally enhanced/non digital. In this workshop we will focus on two kinds of visualizations, non-digital construction kits and whole visualizations.

(1) Construction kits allow creating and manipulating visualizations from building blocks. In education, construction kits, also known as expressive media or manipulatives, allow interactive exploration of designs, concepts and roles. Physical visualizations can for example represent tabular quantitative data or more qualitative data like the state of a project or a system. Construction kits to create such visualization include a set of tokens that can be assembled into something with a new functionality (i.e. visualizations in our case) according to predefined rules. (2) Whole visualizations are created digitally and then rendered entirely by a 3D printer or other fabrication device. Typically, these 3D visualizations are represent quantitative data, e.g. comparative time series, maps or functions with 3 variables.

In this workshop we first will present the concepts of physical visualization and construction kit and discuss a few examples that are either teacher or learner-centric. Then we will introduce some technical principles of digital design and fabrication, before discussing the practical requirements for teachers and/or students to learn and use digital design and fabrication technology. Finally, we will engage participants in some prototyping activity.

Provisional program

Talk about digital design and fabrication in education

http://tecfa.unige.ch/tecfa/talks/schneide/iran-2015/design-fabrication-talk/A-design-fabrication-shiraz-2015-schneider.html Digital design and fabrication in education]

Digital design and fabrication in research

Technical introduction to digital design and fabrication

Definitions

CAD - computer-aided design
CAM - computer-aided manufacturing
3D printing - additive fabrication from

Including a quick tour of available machinery in various contexts.

Introduction to 3D printing

Online drawing tools:

Specialized tools:

Sample visualizations

made with a 3D printer

For a laser cutter

Resources

3D printing

Tools

Sites

Computerized embroidery

Design and fabrication in schools

EduTechWiki

Overviews

D&T in education

Embroidery

3D printing

Music

Teaching

Other resources

  • See various other articles of interest.