Current technological expansion has allowed a new generation of consumers to move from being mere users to architects of their own goods following the “do it yourself” (DIY) trend. Fabrication laboratories (fablabs) enhance this trend and complement it with the possibility of collaborating with other users (DIWO), allowing to replicate any project in another fablab, since they all share two elements: machines and free/open-source tools. Thanks to their capacities in the dissemination of knowledge through networks, these spaces expand the limits of such collaboration on a planetary scale. The diffusion of their projects –which is shown as one of the pillars of this ecology- requires an adequate documentation. This article identifies the elements that influence the diffusion process carried out in fablabs to obtain, finally, an explanatory model about project documentation.
Abstract
Current technological expansion has allowed a new generation of consumers to move from being mere users to architects of their own goods following the “do it yourself” (DIY) trend. Fabrication laboratories (fablabs) enhance this trend and complement it with the possibility of [...]