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Design4Health 2015 – Participatory design and participatory making in a FabLab: challenges for users and designers

This article explores self-fabrication by novice participants in a FabLab for a Participatory Design (PD) research project ‘Bespoke Design’. We developed bespoke tools for self-managing diabetes specifically related to one…

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All Makers Now? 2014 – Great Expectations and Big Challenges: A FabLab as facilitator for personal fabrication of tools to self-manage diabetes

This article discusses the role of a FabLab as a research and making environment within the ‘Bespoke Design’ research project and its implications for the involved designers. ‘Bespoke Design’ deals…

STS Italian 2014 – Break-it, hack-it, make-it: the ‘Hack-a-Thing’ workshop series as a showcase for the integration of creative thinking processes into FabLab Genk

FabLabs are mostly known for their problem-solving approach since they allow people to develop and perfect a prototype of ‘almost any product’, using the available infrastructure, facilities and knowhow (Mandavilli,…

FabLabCon 2013 – Hack-a-thing: A Series of FabLab Genk Workshops for Reusing and Repurposing Depreciated Objects

In this paper we present a series of Fab Lab workshops on reusing and repurposing existing objects. These workshops, called 'Hack-a-Thing', were organized as part of "THE MACHINE - Designing…

Design op Maat

OPAK's 'Design op Maat' (Bespoke Design) (2012-2015) investigates the possibilities of a 'FabLab and open design for the development of self-management tools for and with persons with type 1 diabetes. New…

Key Sampler

Key Sampler is an audio-video instrument that allows the player to trigger part of a video and audio sample, transpose the sound and run through a sample bank made by…

Z-OUT Multitouch

https://youtu.be/ET0mJl1lnCg The project Z-out is an art project from Z33 that will place artworks in the scenery of the region the first city is Borgloon where there is a route…

FabLab Genk

FabLabs in the border region (Interreg IV) (2011-2015) encouraged cooperation between students and researchers from universities and university colleges, as well as industry and the social economy, in establishing and…

Tactile Grid Music Creation

https://youtu.be/PINY4kcF59whttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWuPvaPZOJ4 Screens, LEDs, and sliders are common components of digital music interfaces. The interaction choices for the musician are in a completely different order than with traditional musical instruments, where…