Adopting 'Fablab' model to embed creative entrepreneurship across design program.

Pengelly, Jon; Fairburn, Sue; Newlands, Bruce

Abstract

This paper sets out to describe and contextualize the impact a new FabLab workshop program has had on the direction and curriculum development at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University towards more clearly linking current developments in rapid prototyping, rapid manufacturing, and e-manufacturing services in engaging creative technologies and embedding entrepreneurial skill sets within our undergraduate program. These ambitions are set against specific rural issues of location, within a Northern European context, and associated 'creative rural economy' agenda[s]. This paper will report on specific issues and insights, and their impact, by examining the role design education can play in developing clearer and more sustainable patterns of entrepreneurship within an undergraduate design program, set against these external factors. Whereby, an emerging FabLab model, is developing within this design school, this technology has been positioned as a catalyst to integrate the Rural + Enterprise + Mixed Interdisciplinary Design approaches.

Citation

PENGELLY, J., FAIRBURN, S. and NEWLANDS, B. 2012. Adopting 'Fablab' model to embed creative entrepreneurship across design program. In Buck, L., Frateur, G., Ion, W., McMahon, C., Baelus, C., de Grande, G. and Vervulgen, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 14th International engineering and product design education conference 2012 (E&PDE12): design education for future wellbeing, 6-7 September 2012, Antwerp, Belgium. Glasgow: The Design Society/Institution of Engineering Designers [online], pages 654-658. Available from: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/33262/adopting_fablab_model_to_embed_creative_entrepreneurship_across_design_program

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (published)
• Conference Name: 14th International engineering and product design education conference 2012 (E&PDE12): design education for future wellbeing
• Start Date: Sep 6, 2012
• End Date: Sep 7, 2012
• Acceptance Date: Sep 6, 2012
• Online Publication Date: Sep 6, 2012
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Nov 11, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 11, 2016
• Publisher: Design Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 654-658
• ISBN: 9781904670360
• Keywords: Entrepreneurship; FabLab; Interdisciplinary; Art and design education; Rural
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1970
• Publisher URL: https://www.designsociety.org/publication/33262/adopting_fablab_model_to_embed_creative_entrepreneurship_across_design_program
• Contract Date: Nov 11, 2016