“Make! Do!” is a workshop that celebrate the world of making, your ideas, and tools to help share your handmade creations to the world. There’s a growing movement of DIY enthusiasts, people who share instructions online about how to build things. The worlds of home improvement, food, craft and science, knitting, jewelry, beauty, electronics, robots, music, and exercise are changing rapidly because of how the internet and new tools for sharing resources, instructions, and feedback are helping makers reach new generations and audiences. This workshop is dedicated to YOU, who you are, and do what you love to do, and we will help you explore and make and most importantly share, focusing on methodology, techniques and approaches to documentation and instructions around making.
Usually when we think of production, we think of companies, patents, close source innovation, huge costs and secrecy. The DIY movement is the exact opposite, focusing on low cost, open, transparent and easily replicated solutions. This workshop will investigate and celebrate these trends.
We will be using tools such as writing, drawings, photography and video, and explore different platforms such as Instructables (http://www.instructables.com/) . Students will work on several class exercises to build up their skills that will culminate in the creation of a short featured project and instructions on queens museum website.
This is a production based workshop that focus on participation, group discussion, and will be visited frequently by guest speakers from key figures in the maker and open source / open hardware community.
1st week — What is DIY making? share it! make it! and its community. What is open source? Licensing and legal issues regarding sharing.
2nd week — Initial work on instruction sets and investigation of different platforms.
3nd week — Every Technology is Assistive Technology
Explore ideas / refinement
4th week – Project documentation workshop – focusing specifically on various recording techniques and approaches to documenting not only finished work but the process.
- Assistive Tech for Senior – projects exploration
- Help Session for individual projects
Speaker – Tae yoon choi — artist, SFPC
5th week – Pre-Production – brainstorming session
6th week – Production week
Learn first hand from DIY leaders about their process, tools and approaches.
Speaker – David Sharp – designer, education , LittleBits
Speaker – Caroll Taveras — artist, photographer
7th week – Production week
Learn first hand from DIY leaders about their process, tools and approaches.
Speaker – Becky Stern — maker, adafruits
Speaker – john.schimmel — maker, educator, Assistive Tech
8th week -Production workshop
9th week – Public presentation