The Digital Do-It-Yourself Spark workshops for adults aim to introduce participants to creative making using all sorts of materials and digital tools. Digital technologies including 3D printing and littleBits electronics will be available within the workshop. Workshop facilitators will explain how these technologies work and can be used creatively. Within the workshop you will be asked to work in a small group of 3-5 people. A creative design challenge will be presented for your team to explore and you will get the opportunity to do some creative making and discuss the digital technologies available, your design ideas and the workshop outcomes. This workshop is part of a research project being carried out by the University of Westminster. The aim of the research is to explore creativity in relation Digital DIY (DiDIY).
For us, the term DiDIY expresses how the growing accessibility of digital making technologies, alongside knowledge and data from the Internet and online communities, are enabling new ways for people to make things and do things.
We are seeking to understand how DiDIY creativity may be able to impact on wider creative society – for example, giving makers a sense of creative agency, or communities the resources to tackle local, social or environmental problems.
The workshops are aimed at over-18s and all participants will be asked for their consent to be photographed, filmed and/or interviewed during the workshops.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No: 644344.
More details can be found on the project website www.didiy.eu
The results will be published. They may be featured on our website, in project reports and papers, academic journals or other media. This research is one part of a larger EU programme examining many aspects of DiDIY.
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