Enhancing 3D printing for repair: Designing a system that enhances the collaboration between repairers and makers

This project focuses on enhancing the accessibility of 3D printing for repairers by designing a system in which repairers can collaborate with makers. Repair has become rare in societies with an abundance of cheap goods. However in recent years repair is making a gradual comeback in western culture. Citizen repair initiatives such as Repair...

NEW DUTCH MAKERS: (Co-)designing a technological laboratory for the library Schilderswijk

The Schilderswijk in The Hague is a so-called “power district”: a quarter where the ethnical diversity and the illiteracy rate is high, and the amount of youngsters with education and/or a job is low. The teenagers and young adults often lack a connection to their neighbourhood and the other inhabitants. Consequently, they feel misunderstood and...

Stimulating Creative Dialogues between Humans & Things: DIY in the age of the IoT

Expressing creativity answers to fundamental human needs such as Autonomy, Competence and Self-Esteem (Sheldon, Elliot et al. 2001). However, as industrialisation caused the first consumer revolution, passive consumption of mass-produced objects became the norm. A contemporary response to this passive consumption can be found in an increasingly...

From Shanzhai City to Maker City: Inclusion of Migrants in Urban Redevelopment of Shenzhen

Maker movement is emerging in Shenzhen which is seen as one of the catalysts in facilitating mass entrepreneurship and mass innovation. Because of its rich resource in Hardware, Shenzhen attracted lots of makers and startup teams to start their businesses. This is timing that Shenzhen heads to another phase of city development which is related...

Facilitating beginning sewers in making the clothes that truly fit them

This IPD master thesis describes the process of developing the product-service of Maki. Maki is a startup with the focus of making the life of a beginning sewer easier. Currently, beginning sewers have a learning journey full of struggles. <br/><br/>In this project, a design process is described that attempts to design an online learning...

A Productive Marketplace: Reinterpreting the Market Typology as a tool for sustainable, productive opportunities

The marketplace has established itself, since the beginning of ancient trade, as an arena for economic, social and cultural exchange. Throughout history, markets have played an important role as the mediator in the trading of both globally and locally produced commodities. However, global logistics and consumption have highlighted the increased...