In the past decades, industrial design practice and research have focused extensively on
how to optimize production and consumption, as a way to prevent negative environmental …

Prototyping physical artifacts is a fundamental activity for both product development in
industrial and engineering design domains and the development of digital fabrication skills …

Designers and makers are increasingly interested in leveraging bio-based and bio-
degradable 'do-it-yourself'(DIY) materials for sustainable prototyping. Their self-produced …

The access and growing ubiquity of digital fabrication has ushered in a celebration of
creativity and “making.” However, the focus is often on the resulting static artifact or the …

Fab labs, which offer small-scale distributed digital fabrication, are forming a Green Fab Lab
Network, which embraces concepts of an open source symbiotic economy and circular …

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences
environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the …

A growing number of cities are deploying circular economy practices to contribute to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Makerspaces are community-driven initiatives …

This paper introduces the Sustainable Prototyping Life Cycle for Digital Fabrication, an
adaptation from the Life Cycle Assessment method that presents the environmental impact …

Online user communities have given rise to a new form of peer network collaboration. This
paper examines three user innovation communities to assess their contribution to …

Highlights•People do not only purchase and use products; they design, appropriate and
innovate.•Research on active users in different fields highlight different characteristics.•We …