Conference Opening Science to Meet Future Challenges, Warsaw, March 11, 2014, organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw.

1. Citizen technoscience.
From Open hardware to non-formal practice.
Marcin Zaród

2. Open hardware
• Raspberry Pi – microcomputer, develop in OS
form (35 USD).
• 2 millions of sold units.
• Used in electronics education (University of
Cambridge, DIY tutorials)
• Used in applications (University of
Southhampton – supercomputer)

3. Open source ecology
• Started in 2003 by Marcin Jakubowski.
• Aims to provide blueprints and prototypes for
50 basic agricultural or household machines.
• Developed in open-source model (accessible
blueprints, workshops for profits).

4. „Makers movement”
• Three generations of tinkerers or hackers.
• Hackerspace – non-formal science and
engineering DIY community.
• Rise of hackerspaces (at least 6 places in Poland).
Blending with local tinkering tradition.
• Make Magazine, Maker Corps – major advocates.
• Biotech research, biohacking, open source drug
discovery.

6. Sources
Gershenfeld, N.A., Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop--from
personal computers to personal fabrication2005, New York: Basic
Books. x, 278 p.
Zaród, M. Non-formal science and technology. Preliminary participant
observation study of Fab-Lab Łódź. in Thinking with Hands, Eyes and
Things. Trends in interdisciplinary studies. 2013. Toruń.
Zaród, M., Fabryka edukacji. Laboratoria wytwórcze jako nowe
narzędzie edukacji technicznej. Edukacja Biologiczna i
Środowiskowa, 2013(4): p. 38-44.
Roosth, H.S., Crafting life : a sensory ethnography of fabricated
biologies, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in
Science, Technology and Society.2010, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology: Cambridge, MA. p. 326.
Rabinow, P. and G. Bennett, Designing human practices : an
experiment with synthetic biology2012. 203.
https://uw.academia.edu/MZarod

7. Sources
Gershenfeld, N.A., Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop--from
personal computers to personal fabrication2005, New York: Basic
Books. x, 278 p.
Zaród, M. Non-formal science and technology. Preliminary participant
observation study of Fab-Lab Łódź. in Thinking with Hands, Eyes and
Things. Trends in interdisciplinary studies. 2013. Toruń.
Zaród, M., Fabryka edukacji. Laboratoria wytwórcze jako nowe
narzędzie edukacji technicznej. Edukacja Biologiczna i
Środowiskowa, 2013(4): p. 38-44.
Roosth, H.S., Crafting life : a sensory ethnography of fabricated
biologies, in Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in
Science, Technology and Society.2010, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology: Cambridge, MA. p. 326.
Rabinow, P. and G. Bennett, Designing human practices : an
experiment with synthetic biology2012. 203.
https://uw.academia.edu/MZarod