Designerly Ways of Making

Making is an important part of Design Cultures as it refers to the creativity that produces tangible objects. The Design Culture of Making, particularly for processes, manufacturing and post-industry presents a golden opportunity to share experiences about making. Afterall, creative processes are often experiential not just physical but also virtual. The introductory paper starts with a more generic view of Making as Doing: homo faber as the basics of human nature of creating, building and doing. From this, the focus progresses to a more systemic thinking, underlining the importance to consider that objects interact and create socio-technical systems of production in place. In the third part, considerations are sought for 3D Printing technologies that allow the Maker Movement to establish and create its communities, with an eye on what will happen next, through the final paper on Operating and Doing through robots that will accompany us for the next decade(s) of industrial making.