Abstract
The increasing access of people to fabrication capabilities has stimulated the emergence of personal fabrication settings and inspired post-industrial production scenarios. One strategy to support personal production is to increase technology literacy and access for citizens to means of production. Yet, so far, the deliberate design of products so they can be realized by individuals, an activity termed here as “design for do-it-yourself (DIY) production”, has been under-explored in academia. The present article aims to formalize the know-how gained by practitioners who designed products for production in do-it-yourself settings. It provides an original definition of DIY and the formulation of 14 design principles for DIY production to support practice.
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Wikipedia article for the entry “Do it yourself”. Accessed 03.11.2016.
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See for example [4].
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Here, we intentionally avoid the term “quality” as it related to subjective expectations.
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i.e. hardware products “whose design is made publicly available so that anyone can study, modify, distribute, make, and sell the design or hardware based on that design” (Open Source Hardware Statement of Principles 1.0., http://www.oshwa.org/definition/, Accessed 22.03.2017).
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An updated list is maintained online at http://opensourcedesign.cc.
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Bonvoisin, J., Galla, J.K., Prendeville, S. (2017). Design Principles for Do-It-Yourself Production. In: Campana, G., Howlett, R., Setchi, R., Cimatti, B. (eds) Sustainable Design and Manufacturing 2017. SDM 2017. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 68. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57078-5_8
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