Making Access: Increasing Inclusiveness in Making
Verena Fuchsberger, Dorothé Smit, Nathalia Campreguer França, Georg Regal, Stefanie Wuschitz, Bárbara Huber, Joanna Kowolik, Laura Devendorf, Elisa Giaccardi, Ambra Trotto · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts · 2022
In this one-day workshop we are going to make access. We aim to counteract the phenomenon that access to making (e.g., in makerspaces, fablabs, etc.) is not equally distributed, with certain groups of people being underrepresented (e.g., women*1). After brief introductions from participants and a set of three impulse keynotes, we will envision and “make” interventions together, such as speculative or provocative objects and actions. The workshop takes a constructive stance with the goal to not rest on empirical and theoretical findings or individual experiences, but to translate those into viable interventions. These serve as exemplars of findings with the clear goal of being deployed soon after.