Introducing the FabLab as interactive exhibition space

Authors:
Irene Posch;Hideaki Ogawa;Christopher Lindinger;Roland Haring;Horst Hörtner
Affiliations:
Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria;Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria;Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria;Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria;Ars Electronica Futurelab, Linz, Austria
Venue:
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Year:
2010

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Abstract

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.