Digital fabrication as a library integrated service
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This was a presentation to Liberact 2014 on the possibilities for digital fabrication in the context of not only a library, but at MIT (where some fabrication technologies were developed, and access to new technology is not always lacking)
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- 1. Digital Fabrication as a Library- Integrated Service Matt Bernhardt, MIT Libraries Liberact 2014 March 12, 2014
- 2. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 2 Digitally Fabricated Data
- 3. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 3 Digitally Fabricated Data
- 4. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 4 How do library offerings such as: • discovery services, • reference services and finding aids, • data management, and • institutional repositories change when an essential outcome is a physical replica, functional prototype, or sensing-object? Digital Fabrication as a Library- Integrated Service
- 5. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 5 INITIAL OBSERVATIONS
- 6. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 6 Work at MIT • Dr. Micah Altman, Informatics Program • Purchased Makerbot printer and Sense scanner for evaluation. • Researching how other libraries are deploying these technologies. • Searching for best method to apply the strengths of libraries in this space.
- 7. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 7 Before MIT • Six years as Digital Fabrication Coordinator, Knowlton School of Architecture (Ohio State) • Master of Architecture
- 8. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 8 DigitizationFabrication Digital Fabrication > 3D Printing Digital Fabrication encompasses a wide range of digitally-controlled manufacturing processes. • Additive • Deformative • Subtractive Digitization is a closely-related process.
- 9. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 9 DigitizationFabrication Digital – Physical Cycle
- 10. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 10 LIBRARIES AND MAKERSPACES
- 11. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 11 Libraries and Makerspaces • 41% of respondents currently provide makerspaces – or maker activities - in their libraries • 36% are planning to in the near future. “Makerspaces: A Practical Guide for Librarians” Survey by John Burke, Miami University http://www.infodocket.com/2013/12/16/results-of-makerspaces-in-libraries- study-released/
- 12. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 12 Libraries and Makerspaces [Chicago Public Library] … “a hackerspace or makerspace, a community-operated workspace where people with common interests, often in technology and science, come together to learn and collaborate. [OEDB] … “Makerspaces, sometimes also referred to as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs are creative, DIY spaces where people can gather to create, invent, and learn. In libraries they often have 3D printers, software, electronics, craft and hardware supplies and tools, and more.”
- 13. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 13 …at MIT?
- 14. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 14 …at MIT?
- 15. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 15 …at MIT? “Today, we face an increasing challenge in giving our students the knowledge and experience of reducing theory to practice.” "Project Athena brought about a wave of innovation in the software realm; could new Maker Spaces together with a reinforced commitment to learning-by-doing create the next generation of tinkerers, fluent in advanced manufacturing and rapid prototyping techniques?” -Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education
- 16. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 16 Local Options
- 17. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 17 Online Providers
- 18. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 18 NON-CREATIVE EXAMPLES
- 19. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 19 Many sources of 3d data
- 20. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 20 Many sources of 3d data
- 21. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 21 Many sources of 3d data
- 22. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 22 Many sources of 3d data
- 23. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 23 RECENT WORK
- 24. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 24 Research Guides
- 25. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 25 IAP and Brown Bag Sessions
- 26. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 26 The case for libraries in digital fabrication • We ‘know’ information – Fab makes information material, and vice versa • We are interdisciplinary – Making crosses all disciplinary boundaries • We build literacy – making builds literacy in design, science, technology, engineering, art, and math • We support research – to use fab researchers need support – with core set of skills and knowledge outside their research domain • We steward the scholarly record – digitizations, designs, models are all unique & valuable parts of the record being produced here & now • We create physical spaces for research and learning – successful ‘makerspaces’ bring together ‘good’ location; ‘good’ space; hardware & software; skilled staff; local and global knowledge management
- 27. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 27 TWO NEEDED PROJECTS
- 28. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 28 Discovery for 3d files
- 29. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 29 Discovery for 3d files
- 30. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 30 Improve 3D File Display
- 31. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 31 Improve 3D File Display
- 32. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 32 Thank You! Matt Bernhardt maker-lib@mit.edu @morphosis7 http://informatics.mit.edu Dr. Micah Altman Randi Shapiro Wenqing Lu
- 33. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 33 3D PRINTING AND BOOKS Epilogue
- 34. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 34 On Such A Full Sea
- 35. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 35 Inspiration. The inspiration of the artist
- 36. 3/12/14 Digital Fabrication as Library Integrated Service 36 Orihon
Editor's Notes
- After watching yesterday’s presentations, and thinking about the talk I was scheduled to give, I thought about just ditching everything and float ideas about replicating work like this, from Teehan+Lax Labs http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/turning-an-ipad-into-a-baseball-sculpture
- … or this project, from David Staley at Ohio State http://www.hastac.org/blogs/dstaley/2013/09/24/3-d-printing-data-visuaization
- But I resisted this temptation
- At MIT, Dr. Micah Altman has gathered a small group of people around the issue of libraries and digital fabrication. We’ve purchased a MakerBot printer and Sense scanner for investigation, and are looking at what other organizations have done, and looking for ways for our library to step into this space. Image by Matt Bernhardt
- Before my current position, I worked for many years at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. I hold graduate and undergraduate degrees in architecture. While part of the school’s IT staff, I worked with a group of faculty and staff to secure ongoing funding for the school’s digital fabrication laboratory and oversaw a significant expansion of the school’s resources to include a laser cutting lab, large-format CNC tables, several rapid prototypers, 3d scanners, and other equipment. Image by Matt Bernhardt
- Digital Fabrication is much more than just 3d printing. It includes a very wide range of manufacturing processes that operate across many scales, materials, and formal possibilities. It includes processes that are subtractive and deformative, as well as the additive processes that are coming to be known, generically, as “3d printing” A complementary set of processes are those of digitization, wherein physical geometry is scanned and described in digital formats.
- Together, these fabrication and digitization processes comprise the Digital-Physical cycle.
- Libraries are introducing makerspaces in ever-increasing numbers.
- A recent survey by John Burke sheds some light on this soaring popularity.
- Looking at the marketing statements made by many libraries around these services illustrates the breadth of vision accompanying these services. They are closely aligned with the larger maker movement – which underscores the observation that this is more than just 3d printers.
- …but what does this mean for the libraries at MIT? MIT developed the 3d printing process more than a decade ago. Professors here, like Neri Oxman, are still transforming the technologies of digital fabrication. Screenshot by Matt Bernhardt Pneuma image from Mrjohncummings via Wikimedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pneuma_2_by_Neri_Oxman_at_the_3D,_printing_the_future_exhibition_at_the_Science_Museum,_London.JPG This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
- The needs of our population appear to be quite different than those of many libraries’. Many of our users have better access, to more technologies, through their departments, labs, or centers. Photographs by Matt Bernhardt
- The needs of our population appear to be quite different than those of many libraries’. Many of our users have better access, to more technologies, through their departments, labs, or centers. Photographs by Matt Bernhardt
- Artisans Asylum image from Artisans Asylum Danger!Awesome image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/raamdev/8477289978/
- Screenshots by Matt Bernhardt
- …but what about other use cases for making? When the user of these technologies is not the creator of the file they are printing?
- There are a number of places where users can download ready-made 3d models. Those models can then be made anywhere – in their home department, in a local shop, sent off to a service bureau. They could also be made on a libraries’ 3d printer. Screenshots by Matt Bernhardt
- But how should a user find the file they’re looking for? More proprietary, but backed by 3D Systems. Another example would be YouMagine, affiliated with Ultimaker. Screenshot by Matt Bernhardt
- And of course, institutions also maintain repositories – under the stewardship of libraries – that are the record of scholarly output for the organization. Some of those outputs take the form of 3d design files. Screenshot by Matt Bernhardt
- And of course, institutions also maintain repositories – under the stewardship of libraries – that are the record of scholarly output for the organization. Some of those outputs take the form of 3d design files. Screenshot by Matt Bernhardt
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/11890392676/ License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en
- http://i.materialise.com/gallery/d8cacb8a-a6eb-4604-806c-19e39c787fb3 https://i.materialise.com/blog/entry/a-new-dimension-for-book-covers http://dierckxlien.wix.com/portfolio#!inspiration-point/c1dag Project by Lien Dierckx
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/burtoholmes/9609352388/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ http://booklyn.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1513