A FRAMEWORK TO ANALYSE DIGITAL FABRICATION PROJECTS: THE ROLE OF DESIGN CREATIVITY
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2020)
Year: 2020
Editor: Boujut, Jean-François ; Cascini, Gaetano ; Ahmed-Kristensen, Saeema ; Georgiev, Georgi V. ; Iivari, Netta
Author: Soomro, Sohail Ahmed (1, 2); Georgiev, Georgi V. (1)
Series: ICDC
Institution: 1: Center for Ubiquitous Computing, University of Oulu, Finland; 2: Electrical Engineering Department, Sukkur IBA University, Pakistan
Page(s): 367-374
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.35199/ICDC.2020.46
Abstract
In this study, we formulate a framework to evaluate open-ended projects related to digital fabrication. The framework consists of two dimensions, i.e. human intellect and technology. Human intellect is judged by three sub-dimensions – creativity, computational thinking, and skills. In order to study the technology dimension, the four sub-dimensions include process, outcome, development stage, and reproducibility. To test the proposed framework, a case study was applied on digital fabrication projects done in Fab Academy 2019. Final projects of students are selected to implement the framework since final projects exemplify most of the skills learned by a student of the digital fabrication course. In addition, the proposed framework is also assessed in the light of existing literature done to evaluate learning in similar types of projects. The results establish the relationship among different sub parameters of human intellect and technology, and present the open-ended project evaluation results.
Keywords: digital fabrication, project-based learning, fab lab, design creativity, evaluation