Making Access
Increasing Inclusiveness in Making
Verena Fuchsberger (University of Salzburg)
Dorothé Smit (University of Salzburg)
Nathalia Campreguer França (University of Salzburg)
Georg Regal (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology)
Stefanie Wuschitz (Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory Vienna,)
Barbara Huber (Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory Vienna,)
Joanna Kowolik (Happylab, Vienna)
Laura Devendorf (University of Colorado - Boulder)
Elisa Giaccardi (TU Delft - Human Technology Relations)
Ambra Trotto (Umeå University)
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Abstract
In this one-day workshop we are going to make access. We aim to counteract the phenomenon that access to making (e.g., in makerspaces, fablabs, etc.) is not equally distributed, with certain groups of people being underrepresented (e.g., women∗1). After brief introductions from participants and a set of three impulse keynotes, we will envision and "make"interventions together, such as speculative or provocative objects and actions. The workshop takes a constructive stance with the goal to not rest on empirical and theoretical findings or individual experiences, but to translate those into viable interventions. These serve as exemplars of findings with the clear goal of being deployed soon after.