'In the making': a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change

In the making : digital fabrication and disability (2020)
Book

Digital fabrication combines virtual and material worlds; transforming thoughts into things, and things into data. It fosters complex and varied communities while enabling the pursuit of unique individual outputs. Current literature on digital fabric... Read More about In the making : digital fabrication and disability.

Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication (2019)
Journal Article
Hurley, U. (2019). Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication. European journal of life writing, 8(2019), DM171-DM196. https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.8.35555

This essay presents an account of an AHRC Connected Communities Innovation project which used creative writing techniques as a process for generating personally meaningful digitally-fabricated objects, probing the potential
of making practices to ca... Read More about Printing a new story : self-representation, disability, and digital fabrication.

“The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography (2018)
Journal Article

This essay draws on findings from a UK Arts and Humanities Research Council project: “In the Making” (AH/M006026/1) to argue that the digital turn in art therapy – particularly 3D printing – makes possible new forms of disability agency, engaging pos... Read More about “The embodiment of pure thought”? Digital fabrication, disability and new possibilities for auto/biography.

Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Makerspaces—public workshops where makers can share tools and knowledge—are a growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in innovation and peer learning is widely discussed, we attempt to look at the wider ro... Read More about Making community : the wider role of makerspaces in public life.

Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Taylor, N., Connolly, P., Hurley, U., & Macleod-Iredale, J. (2016, May). Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication. Presented at CHI 2016 Workshop: Fabrication & HCI: Hobbyist Making, Industrial Production, and Beyond, Salzburg

In this paper we describe early findings from a series of
digital fabrication workshops run with disabled people as part of the In the Making project. These workshops aimed to engage more disabled people with digital fabrication and explore how the... Read More about Breadth, depth and height : early findings on engaging disabled people with digital fabrication.