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COLLABORATIVE TEAMWORK PROTOTYPING AND CREATIVITY IN DIGITAL FABRICATION DESIGN EDUCATION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Georgi V. Georgiev ,
Vijayakumar Nanjappan ,
Hernan Casakin  and
Sohail Soomro
Georgi V. Georgiev*
Affiliation:
Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland;
Vijayakumar Nanjappan
Affiliation:
Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland;
Hernan Casakin
Affiliation:
Ariel University, Israel;
Sohail Soomro
Affiliation:
Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan
*
Georgiev, Georgi V., University of Oulu, Finland, georgi.georgiev@oulu.fi

Abstract

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Digital fabrication laboratories play a role as an educational environment in which different learning activities incorporate advanced technological developments. Digital fabrication design education often involves exploratory and scaffolded processes of materialising ideas into products. However, FabLabs poses multiple challenges for pedagogy and design learning. Based on a large-scale digital fabrication course in a higher education institution, we examine whether teamwork carried out in a digital fabrication environment improves creativity. Furthermore, we analyse if teamwork affects self-assessment of learning activities involving building tangible artefacts. Finally, we examine whether the type of produced prototype affects the team's overall performance. The results allow for digital fabrication design education recommendations, including interventions intended for improving the creativity of the outcomes, team performance, and learning of different digital fabrication issues.

Keywords

CreativityDesign educationTeamworkDigital fabricationPrototyping
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 967 - 976
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