TY - GEN
T1 - "Now that's definitely a proper hack"
T2 - 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014
AU - Bardzell, Jeffrey
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
AU - Toombs, Austin
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Cultures of making-that is, social practices of hacking, DIY, tinkering, repair, and craft-continue to rise in prominence, and design researchers have taken note, because of their implications for sustainability, democratization, and alternative models of innovation, design, participation, and education. We contribute to this agenda by exploring our findings on self-made tools, which we encountered in a 9- month ethnographic study of a hackerspace. Self-made tools embody issues raised in two discourses that are of interest in design research on making: Tools and adhocism. In this paper, we explore ways that tools and adhocism interface with each other, using our findings as a material to think with. We find that this juxtaposition of concepts helps explain a highly generative creative practice-toolmaking- within the hackerspace we studied.
AB - Cultures of making-that is, social practices of hacking, DIY, tinkering, repair, and craft-continue to rise in prominence, and design researchers have taken note, because of their implications for sustainability, democratization, and alternative models of innovation, design, participation, and education. We contribute to this agenda by exploring our findings on self-made tools, which we encountered in a 9- month ethnographic study of a hackerspace. Self-made tools embody issues raised in two discourses that are of interest in design research on making: Tools and adhocism. In this paper, we explore ways that tools and adhocism interface with each other, using our findings as a material to think with. We find that this juxtaposition of concepts helps explain a highly generative creative practice-toolmaking- within the hackerspace we studied.
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U2 - 10.1145/2556288.2557221
DO - 10.1145/2556288.2557221
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84900458432
SN - 9781450324731
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 473
EP - 476
BT - CHI 2014
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 26 April 2014 through 1 May 2014
ER -