Today's topic is about maker culture in Finland and the makers' movement in the world. The speakers showed many interesting examples of 3D printing and online open source design.
After 3D printer developing, it make product design faster and easier that designer can easily make models with it. Besides, it also change the process of product design and the limit of manufacture that products can have more complicate structure. Moreover, because of the lower price compared with those manufacturing machines, making a design is no more belong to product designers. It bring a huge change of product manufacture just like the book, Makers, said that it is a new industrial revolution. Also, because of 3D printer, product design can add more elements of customization. People can choose a prefer shape of product such as glasses or smart phone's protector. It make product design has more variation and closer to users.
In the first part of speech, Professor Kahtala introduced the recent situation of maker culture in Finland, besides, she also talked about the trend and future project about makers. I'm really surprised that it is much more active compared with the situation in Taiwan where I come. In the speech, I found that the environment in Finland is encouraging innovation, no matter is government or business.
In the age of maker movement, we always think about creating new products and things, moreover, there are some website teaching people about the business model of maker's production. However, we also have think that do we need more stuff? It is the question mentioned by the third speaker. It impacted the vision I imaged about maker movement. It remind us that we as designer should think more about design products and not just making stuffs blindly.
the 3D printer gun.
Besides, he also mentioned about the disadvantages of 3D printer. (http://www.techrepublic.com/article/the-dark-side-of-3d-printing-10-things-to-watch/) It also bring me another aspect of 3D printers. We should not think it as an omnipotent device of manufacture. In addition, the 3D printer also bring other issue of moral and law. For example, it is much easier to create a gun with 3D printer, although the strength of this homemade gun can not compared with the real one, it still has some kind of damage to people no matter is to user or to target. It can not be restrained by only human's conscience. It's a really troublesome problem we need to solve.
A Chindogu which helps you draw lipstick on your lip easily.
In the speech, the speaker also mentioned a noun called "Chindogu (珍道具)". It is describe those useless products and comes from Japanese culture. Maybe lots of people feel weird, but I think it is a humorous culture of product design. Just like the critical design wants to criticize, chindogu brings a humorous and ironic atmosphere to product design.
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