STEAM Powered! MakerSpace / FabLab @AcadiaU
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With Terry Weatherbee & David Duke (STEAM Space Acadia University) The recent and explosive growth in maker-culture combined with the emergence of 3D Printing in Fabrication Laboratories (or “FabLabs”) presents an opportunity for the province to prepare for the future by investing in economic and cultural change in rural Nova Scotia. Acting in concert with the Acadia Entrepreneurship Centre and the Centre for Rural Innovation, Acadia’s new STEAM Space is working toward the creation of a Maker Space/FabLab on the Acadia University campus. It will be based on the combination of Acadia’s knowledge in Science and Technology with expertise in business for the purposes of developing an Entrepreneurial culture of innovation for Artisanal Making. It is designed to turn disruption into opportunity for the local and regional community in which Acadia is embedded. David and Terry will talk about the potential of maker spaces, as well as provide some 3D printing show and tell. Terry Weatherbee is a Professor in the Manning School of Business at Acadia University, and has a number of different research areas of interest including the negative impacts of technology use in organizations and the historiography of management thought. His most current research focuses on the disruptive impact of Maker Technology and its opportunities for economic development and academic/economic partnership. David Duke is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classics and as Coordinator of the university's recently-established Environmental and Sustainability Studies program. His academic areas of expertise are the history of Russia and the USSR, the history of science, and environmental history, and he teaches in all these areas.
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- 1. Refresh Annapolis Valley STEAM Powered! Maker Space / FabLab @AcadiaU Terrance Weatherbee, Acadia University Fred C. Manning School of Business David Duke, Acadia University History and Classics / ESST
- 2. Overview • Background and (brief) history of 3D Printing (3DP) & Maker Philosophy • The impact of 3DP/Maker Philosophy on educational models – opportunity or disruption? (Or both?) • The impact of 3DP/Maker Philosophy on economies • What 3DP will look like at Acadia, what it will look like in the Valley and Western Nova Scotia
- 3. What is 3D Printing? – a Definition • 3D printing is properly called additive manufacturing – the creation of 3D objects from a digital file (usually) in a layer-by- layer process (extrusive processing is also possible) Printer head motion is controlled by the software-generated 3D model that is built up in slices
- 4. What is 3D Printing? – Some History • It’s a lot older than you might think – it’s been around since the early 1980s; high-end systems have been used for rapid prototyping since the late 1980s • And for biologic construction too – since the late 1990s • 2004 – Adrian Bowyer conceived of the Replicating Rapid- Prototyper (RepRap) – a self-replicating 3d printer concept that utilised open-source datasets for the generation of plastic objects • Open-source drove price down, rapidly, as did hardware competition Plastic is only one of many materials that can be 3D printed. Above: Yoda in wood fibre
- 5. Making and Imagining • The digital files that form the basis of the 3D printing process can be original creations from Computer- Aided Design (CAD) software • Or they can be digital scans of “real-world” objects using digital scanners which can be expensive…
- 6. …Or Not. Matter and Form’s Bevel 3D The Bevel device ($79US) connects to an iPhone5 via the headphone jack to produce 3D photography using the associated app… but the photographs can also be imported into CAD software. Microsoft Kinect ($110US) can do the same thing, and 3D photography is likely to be an in-built feature of the next Android OS
- 7. As Price Goes Down…Innovation Goes Up • Innovation is spurred by the linkage of 3D printing (and associated tech, such as laser cutting) with Makerspaces (a.k.a. “FabLabs”) to exemplify and amplify a new culture of creativity • Common location of Makerspaces/FabLabs universities and libraries Above: the FabLab at Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland – one of at least 10 in a country of 325,000 Above: one of the 3D Cube2 printing clusters at U. Mich’s Digital Commons FabLab
- 8. What does this look like? • From a historical perspective, it looks a lot like going back in time to before the Industrial Revolution (wait, what? Isn’t that bad?) • It has the potential for tremendous personal / local / regional empowerment… what does this productivity entail in comparison to the way we do things now? Above: Timbuk2 workshop in San Francisco – part of the effort to reboot the city’s manufacturing base, on an artisanal foundation – and 3D Printing / Maker Philosophy is a cornerstone of the policy Above Right: Typical British Domestic System home, ca. 1750
- 9. STEAM Space Studio Technologies for Entrepreneurship in Artisanal Manufacture
- 11. Innovation Corridor Terrance Weatherbee Donna Sears Acadia University INNOVATION CORRIDOR
- 12. STEAM Space @ Acadia
- 13. STEAM Space @ Acadia
- 15. Acadia’s STEAM Space Acadia’s new STEAM space will be a locale where students, community members, Acadia faculty, and businesses can collaborate to explore the potential of maker culture in ways limited only by imagination… Right: printed model of the gravestone of a US Civil War soldier; history students (for example) could create a database of 3D scans of graves in Annapolis Valley burial grounds for historic purposes
- 16. Who can use it? Everyone! STEAM space will be open to community members, school groups, members of the Acadia community, and beyond, as a place to develop new thinking, to link the digital and physical worlds, and to learn the potentials of this revolutionary technology.
- 17. Impact on Education The mission of Acadia University is to provide a personalized and rigorous liberal education; promote a robust and respectful scholarly community; and inspire a diversity of students to become critical thinkers, lifelong learners, engaged citizens, and responsible global leaders. STEAM will • Build problem-based learning environments • Stimulate design thinking • Promote community engagement and sustainable thinking • Develop 21st-century skill sets (linking STEM with Liberal Arts) • Enhance cultures of entrepreneurship and transdisciplinary learning • Empower students as creators as opposed to simply consumers
- 18. The 3d Printing Difference
- 20. And Back Again
- 23. Moore’s Law & Innovation
- 24. Personalization
- 25. The game changing nature of Additive Manufacturing is not to be found in the technology itself – but rather in the economic and social ecologies it will disrupt or enable.
- 27. Supply & Product Chains
- 31. This is a test… …designed to provoke an emotional response
Notas do Editor
- The single room is dominated by a spinning wheel which is being worked by a young lady – the spinster. Food is being cooked in the same room. A ladder on the left of the picture will take the workers to their bedrooms once work for the day is finished and a window allows for light and ventilation. The amount of yarn produced in such a situation is clearly minimal. If a worker did not work in his own home, he might work in a small workshop. Everything was done on a small scale. Even the coal mines – to fuel local cottages rather than send coal further afield – were small with shallow bell pits being the favoured type of mine as opposed to deep coal mining. What was so good about the domestic system ? the workers involved could work at their own speed while at home or near their own home. children working in the system were better treated in this system than they were to be in the factory system. As the women of a family usually worked at home, someone was always there to look after the children. conditions of work were better as windows could be open, people worked at their own speed and rested when they needed to. Meals could be taken when needed. as people worked for themselves they could take a pride in what they did. Tension in the work place was minimal as the family worked as a unit. the best home produced goods were of a very good quality – though this probably was not true at a general level.
- Additive Manufacturing in an of itself is an important form of technology. However, it is not what individual 3d printers do that is really critical so much as what the other changes that 3d printing will foster or enable. As with the Internet, it is the new ecology that will form around 3d printing that holds the potential for really significant economic and social change. Materialization of information: Digital-to-thing and thing-to-digital Universal Tool: One tool can make radically different things Democratization of Innovation and Design: Personalization rather than Customization I suspect that many of these effects will parallel those we have already observed in the music and publishing industries. Materialization of Information. Because of its ability to translate the digital into the material (and the technology for ‘and back again’, e.g., 3d scanners) this will change the where and when of production and making. This will disintermediate the relations in our current economic infrastructure and it will decouple the supply chain from the product chain. Universal Tool: no need to change the tool (production line) to switch what is being produced. Democratization of Design: This will change the who in who designs products. Democratization of Innovation: Moore’s law meets product evolution. Personalization instead of customization. Collaboration, Open Source and Sharing will produce new markets and economic forms. Taken together this means that the classical barriers of market entry based upon scale will shift dramatically. All of which will give rise to many new business models; from distributed manufacturing, micro-manufacturing, pop-up manufacturing.