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Introducing the FabLab as interactive exhibition space

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Irene Posch,

Hideaki Ogawa,

Christopher Lindinger,

Roland Haring,

Horst HörtnerAuthors Info & Claims

IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 254 - 257

https://doi.org/10.1145/1810543.1810584

Published: 09 June 2010 Publication History

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This paper introduces an approach to include a fab lab into an interactive exhibition space of a museum. Fab labs, as coined by Neil Gershenfeld, have established a great point of view for educational access to modern means of invention and technological empowerment. However realizations so far have been mainly focused on technical equipment and peer- to-peer project based training.

Given the context of a museum, we focused on providing an open and easy for every visitor accessible design and fabrication space focusing on identified key elements like creative prototyping and shared creativity within the range of the realized integrative system. We describe our findings based on the work for the FabLab at the Ars Electronica Center (AEC) in Linz, Austria.

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IDC '10: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2010

389 pages

ISBN:9781605589510

DOI:10.1145/1810543

Conference Chairs:
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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Miquel Oliver
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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