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Nascimento, S., Pólvora, A., Oliveira, S., Paio, A. & Rato, V. (2014). Back and forth between social and technical: A collective experience in the transdisciplinary making of sustainable artifacts. In Claudio Coletta, Sara Colombo, Paolo Magaudda, Alvise Mattozzi, Laura Lucia Parolin and Lucia Rampino (Ed.), Proceedings of the 5th STS Italia Conference. Milão: STS Italia Publishing.

S. Nascimento et al.,  "Back and forth between social and technical: A collective experience in the transdisciplinary making of sustainable artifacts", in Proc. of the 5th STS Italia Conf., Claudio Coletta, Sara Colombo, Paolo Magaudda, Alvise Mattozzi, Laura Lucia Parolin and Lucia Rampino, Ed., Milão, STS Italia Publishing, 2014

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AB  - From Fablabs to Hackerspaces we now see the emergence of promising venues following open
and collaborative frameworks mixing multiple types of knowledge and skills. They are supported
by an accessibility of additive and subtractive fabrication machines, open source software and
hardware, and many other personal manufacturing tools ushering in low-cost and DiY trends, to
create anything from micro controllers and apps, to wearables and tangible devices in the hype of
highly anticipated Internets of Everything. And, from academia, business or industry, to lay
individuals or pro-amateurs, all are expected to benefit from these spaces and their material and
conceptual platforms, as everyone here is ultimately encouraged to learn how to produce, use,
share, copy and improve assorted objects or systems. This presentation will focus on a collective
experience of learning and making in one of these spaces, by addressing both the final outputs,
and the processes that led to, and occurred during STTF2013 Summer School “Sustainable
Technologies and Transdisciplinary Futures: From Collaborative Design to Digital Fabrication”
(http://sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt/), jointly organized by VitruviusFabLab-IUL (Digital Fabrication
Laboratory) and CIES-IUL (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology) of ISCTE-IUL
(University Institute of Lisbon), with partners as the JRC-EC, and altLab - Lisbon’s hackerspace.
Gathering graduate students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Design, Social Sciences,
Humanities, Architecture, Computer Science, Communication and Management, the challenge
was to engage all participants within a transdisciplinary collaboration model based on working
groups, while generating sociotechnical debates and tangible outputs that could meet concrete
social needs. From generative design, qualitative social data analysis, or ethical debates, to
digital fabrication, physical computing, or open production exercises, STTF2013 participants
worked in sociotechnical processes of discussion, design, and fabrication of environmentally,
economically, socially and culturally sustainable prototypes for distinct social groups that pass
by, use, or live near two Lisbon's waterfront territories, Cais do Sodré and Cacilhas, considering
issues as cradle to cradle cycles, conviviality, empowerment, modularity, transparency, etc.
Devising these prototypes through such processes allowed for each development stage to be
reflected upon, worked, decided and envisioned through a broad spectrum of disciplinary views.
And its particular mix of social and technical backgrounds and skills, with citizen needs and
local knowledge, resulted in several routes for designing, producing, distributing, and using more
appropriate artifacts. But adding issues or people often apart does not only allow methodological
sharing or collective work, as it also requires careful attention to divergent goals and
backgrounds, dissimilar learning needs, conflicting notions of cooperation, or disparate abilities
to use available technical or social tools. The same logic that enables a transdisciplinary creation
of artifacts from start to end, also provides insights on the most challenging aspects of mingling
conceptual and material processes from social and technical fields in these emerging spaces. An
experience such as STTF2013 present us the opportunity to rethink both the embedding of social
questions and their connected stakeholders within technological outputs, and the paths that
should precede some of the novel heuristic and fabrication frameworks of our nearest futures.
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