Make:Shift:Do

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[ UUID ] 3da38e92-8033-4e40-90a1-efa6a8f7a3b6

[ Session Name ] Make:Shift:Do [ Primary Space ] Youth Zone [ Secondary Space ] Open Innovation

[ Submitter's Name ] Zoe Dennington [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Crafts Council

[ Additional facilitators ] Holly Burton,Maker, tbc,Young people from Crafts Council's youth group

What will happen in your session?

We will work with our young people's group (aged 16-25) to develop a drop-in session linked to the themes of the Youth Zone and Make:Shift:Do, the Crafts Council's festival of new making.

This year Make:Shift:Do poses a craft wellbeing challenge: what craft interventions and emerging craft technologies can make the world a healthier, happier place? Our young people's group will select and work with a digital craft maker/innovator to co-produce and deliver a drop-in interactive session.

Make:Shift:Do takes place in makerspaces, fablabs, galleries, libraries, and community centres across the UK. We'd like to bring Mozfest into the heart of this network, livestreaming Make:Shift:Do events happening all over the UK and encouraging our Make:Shift:Do venues to openly share their activities online.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We'd like to invite Mozfest attendees to explore cutting-edge approaches to making, changing perceptions of the meaning of ‘craft’ and revealing its real world potential.

Make:Shift:Do celebrates the power of open source technology, shared makerspaces, and new tools, such as affordable 3D printers and digital knitting machines, to open new possibilities for everyday makers. The workshop will invite participants to consider how open access to these technologies can drive innovation and create solutions to wellbeing issues.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

Crafts Council should be able to supply all materials. It would be great if there was a projector and big screen we could use to livestream Make:Shift:Do events from around the country.

Time needed

All weekend, as an installation, exhibit or drop-in session

[EPIKhub]

@Saallen could we invite them to do some frindge events too?

[Saallen]

Already on it- I invited Zoe and the team to submit

[ArtsAward]

Great to see Zoe and Holly submitting this year. They are an Arts Award centre/Supporter and took part in our own Mozfest Fringe schedule last year. I was in touch again this year to share the call out, hence this proposal. Would be great to see this under the youth led curation label once they confirm a young leader @emrysgreen @Saallen

[HollyBurton]

A quick update:

We are meeting with our youth group next week on Thursday to put forward some makers and ideas for our session. So I'll be in touch again soon with more details!

In our application for time needed we made a mistake and put all weekend - could we amend this to just the Saturday 28th?

Thanks!

[EPIKhub]

@HollyBurton awesome to hear you are taking this to your youth group, might I suggest you offer blocks of 60mins rather than an all day installation, we would love for your group to take part in the entire festival rather than just stay in the youth zone for the whole day. Also we are very pressed for space on Satureday already scheduling wise and it is traditionally the most busy day with lots to see and do

[HollyBurton]

Blocks of 60mins sounds good. How many blocks are you thinking?

So the workshop set-up would need to be easily moved to different spaces?

[EPIKhub]

@HollyBurton I can only speak for the youth zone space so cannot comment on other spaces. Re sessions let's not limit their creativity, rather we could open it up and accept the best session or session suggested by the youth group as an idea? One of the key requirement will be on how the session fits, intersects and or addresses the five key issues within the Internet of health report.

[emrysgreen]

Hiya @HollyBurton - will any of the young people coming along be participating their Arts Awards this year?

[HollyBurton]

Hi @emrysgreen

Yes, one of our young people is working towards his Gold Award and he's interested in taking part. I'll also be talking to other members of the group about how they can use this experience towards Bronze or Silver.

[emrysgreen]

That's great news @HollyBurton - we'd love to feature them on artsawardvoice.com and to ensure we profile your session if that's ok?

[HollyBurton]

Hi

Really sorry for slow reply - I've been working with the group to decide on what we'd like to do...

and now I have an update on our session idea:

The young people would really like to work with batch.works - - they print for and collaborate with others, to make 3D printed consumer products part of people's everyday lives.

The initial idea is:

60 minute sessions on their new auto-print process - whereby they get the printer to push the object its just printed off the print bed after its finished and automatically start the next one - freeing us up to get on with other things without having to babysit the printers.

They could start the session by doing a (very) quick explainer on the potential of 3D printers then why and how they developed the auto-print. How it came from the open source community and how they've then returned it by open sourcing the developments they made to the process. They could then move on to a setup and print exercise where they get small groups to pretend they work in a sort of 'micro factory of the future'.

With the help of a set of instructions they setup their printer for auto-printing (pull out the basket, put in the plastic and install the skirt) and start printing a 5 min file, like a pen. They could slow the auto process down so it would be easy to follow what its doing and they could leave the session with the pen they printed and a handout explaining the process. Hopefully something like this would show how the technology can be used for more everyday things, as opposed to the guns and organs you hear about on the news, give them a chance to get hands-on with the machines and learn about the potential of open-source for makers.

I'd also like the young people and Batch.works to think about how this new auto-print process combined with open source could be used to have a positive impact on the world - perhaps thinking about the wellbeing theme that our wider Make:Shift:Do festival is exploring and looking at aspects of the Healthy Internet Report too.

What do you think?

How many sessions would you like us to do over the course of the day?

And in your experience, how many people usually attend each session? I'll need to speak to batch.works about how many they could have in each session - i think they have 3 of their auto-print printers they can bring along.

[emrysgreen]

This sounds fantastic @HollyBurton - great to have something tangible to take away. But it is @EPIKhub space so will let Dorine come back with thoughts and advice on your questions :)

[EPIKhub]

@HollyBurton sounds good at this end re the plan. Logistics wise we would need to have a conversation with batch.works on GitHub so we can ask technical questions :) so please invite them to create a GitHub account and share their username. Once we've got the tech questions out of the way, we can look at how many session/s are feasable.

[EPIKhub]

@gbaman should we settup a print lab to house this and other related stuff in one of the small rooms?

[HollyBurton]

Ah really pleased you like the idea! I'm speaking to the batch.work lot tomorrow morning so I'll ask them to create a GitHub account and join the conversation.

I'm on holiday from tomorrow until next Thursday 14th but if they sign up then hopefully you can continue the conversation with them until I get back

[batch-works]

Hi, this is Dylan from Batch.Works. Really glad you all like the idea for the workshop, we're really excited to make it happen! Thanks @HollyBurton. @EPIKhub fire away any technical questions you may have - we may not be able to answer all of them yet, but I'll do my best.

[EPIKhub]

@batch-works awesome to have you with us, looking forward to the collaboration. @gbaman our technical lead is on hols right now, he will have questions. Some logistics questions first:

1. Do you plan to be at the festival for the full 3 days? Friday is settup day for incoming gear and training for facilitators.
2. How much time does it take to settup your gear?
3. What's your print time per item i.e capacity.

Limitations: WiFi is never great at MozFest

[HollyBurton]

@EPIKhub @gbaman

1. We were planning to only be at the festival on Saturday. Do we need to setup on Friday or can we arrive early and setup on the Saturday? What does the facilitator training involve? Does everyone who is going to be helping need to attend, including the young people who'll be supporting delivery of our session?

2 and 3. @batch-works can you answer these two?

[batch-works]

2. It depends on how much extra material we'll be bringing along to the event, but just the printers by themselves usually take us just under an hour to setup from door to print. I can't imagine we'd need much more than the printers and a few handouts/info sheets but we'll have a clearer picture of exactly what we'll be bringing along after the workshop with the crafts council and @HollyBurton next week.

3. The print time per item is ~6mins and we have 3 printers, so the max capacity is about 30 pens an hour. But for the sessions I was thinking about 3 people to a printer, so groups of 9 each one. But again we'll be testing it with the group next week to see how it feels and we can let you know then. Does that give you a better idea of capacity?

@EPIKhub do you have an idea of the space we'll be using for the sessions?

[EPIKhub]

@batch-works yes and great you are testing it out to see how things flow. Keep us updated. Re - Friday, as your stuff is quick to install you dont need to bring it on that day if you dont want to. The session on the Friday is for all the facilitators and co-facilitators including the youth who are taking part. As MozFest is a participation conferance and so very different to most other conferances - We found doing the training makes for better sessions and helps you and them as a facilitator to be confortable with the format, especially for people who are new to MozFest it can at times, a bit much on the day with no training as we are all so busy dealing with the next critical thing on our list to really be of much help on things we addressed on the Friday :)

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub

Hi! I've just been chatting with @batch-works about the workshop, which they are testing and modifying with our young facilitators next Wednesday. Their rough plan is:

• To have 3 printers, with 3 participants working at each, so a total of nine participants per workshop (they will trial the logistics of this next week)

• Workshop will last 60 minutes

It would be great to know from you guys what the physical space we'll have is like, and how many times you'd like us to repeat the workshop. We'd like to let the young people know how long we'll need them for on the Saturday.

Please could you also let me know when the planing session on Friday 27th will be?

Thanks, Zoe

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub Hello! Sorry to pester you but if possible please could you come back to me on the above points (how many times you'd like us to repeat the workshop throughout the day and at what times, is nine participants per workshop an acceptable number, what physical space will we have to deliver the workshop?) before our meeting with our young facilitators tomorrow?

Thanks, Zoe

[EPIKhub]

@zdennignton We are not yet at the scheduling stage so unfortunately we cannot answer that question, we have over 57 sessions with thier session leaders in the youth Zone to fit within a fixed space, this takes both time and planning, not an overnight task.

[zdennignton]

OK, thank you for coming back to me. I understand that it must be a very tricky task trying to work out where everyone will be! Would it be possible to let me know the maximum possible amount of time the young people will need to be at MozFest? E.g. 10am- 5pm? It would be good to be able to give them this info tomorrow so they can get it in their diaries.

Thanks, Zoe

[gbaman]

@zdennignton to follow up from @EPIKhub's comments, one of the important purposes of the admin form you filled in was to allow us to start the scheduling, as it includes what days folks are able to make the festival.

This is something we haven't yet been able to start properly though as we are still waiting for responses from other facilitators.

Looking at the results, I do only see 1 facilitator having completed the form (yourself)? If there are other facilitators involved with this session, it is very important as mentioned in the email, that they also complete the form ASAP.

[zdennignton]

Hello, I just emailed you about the form. I have a member of staff who works part-time who needs to fill this out, I will ask her to do it as soon as she gets into the office tomorrow.

Thanks, Zoe

[EPIKhub]

@zdennignton They (Your team including youths) should expect to be there all day. They wont be running the session all day but there is a huge amount of content they could learn and benefit from as a peer led festival.

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub Yes, I hope they'll all be able to make it to the whole day, I'm sure it will be a great experience for them.

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub @gbaman

Hi Andrew and Dorine,

@batch-works joined you for the Google Hangout yesterday, and we were wondering if you could confirm whether you'd like is to repeat the 1 hour workshop over the course of the day? We had been planning on doing this, but yesterday's discussion gave Dylan the impression that you might only want the workshop to run once? Please could you confirm so that we can purchase materials?

Dylan also mentioned that facilitators may be expected to assist with the delivery of other workshops. Please can you let us know how this is managed- is there a sign-up system on the day? I think we'd need to keep our young facilitators together in one group, accompanied by Rosie Mitchell, our Learning Coordinator, for supervision/ safeguarding reasons.

Thanks, Zoe

[EPIKhub]

@batch-works @zdennignton - We have not done the scheduling yet as we are waiting for people to complete the admin form. Once we have the info we need, we will schedule. Everyone gets 1 slot automatically, what is left over slot wise is then allocated to those who want to do more than 1 session

The helping out is aimed at our group of Pi youths who are running their own Pi based workshops in our 2 Pi labs, your group is not part of the Pi labs - What would be great though is your youth taking part in the Fire side chat, side of things.

[batch-works]

Hi @EPIKhub, thanks for all the info during the hangout yesterday, it really cleared things up! I think we'd got the wrong end of the stick, we assumed after we'd got everything setup, we'd be running sessions all day, with short breaks in-between. But @zdennignton and I spoke today and we're both happy with running just the one session or if there's time running a second one. We're not too worried about the scheduling, organising 57 sessions sounds like a mammoth task, whatever we're given we can work with as long as if we end up doing two sessions they're on the same day.

As for the fireside chat we'd, or hopefully one of the young peoples group, would be happy to talk about the topic of open innovation and how people open sourcing their own auto-printing technique enabled us to develop and build our own. Let us know if that would work for you. For the blog post I think we'll be talking about the same thing as well as a bit of decentralisation.

With the workshop, we tested it last week and although it wasn't flawless it worked out pretty well. The group seemed to be interested in the topic and found the exercise fun! Since then we've moved things around a bit to make it flow better, updated the instructions to make them clearer and we'll be testing it again just to make sure. We still have a bit of work to do on the instructions to make sure they'll be understood for a really switched on 7 year old but I think we're on track.

On our side, it's just julien who has yet to do the admin form, but i'll give him another nudge tomorrow and that should be sorted.

Anything else let me know. Thanks.

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub @batch-works thanks for the extra info, really helpful. We will include the fireside chat in our breakdown of the day when we talk to the young people about what their contribution will be.

Best wishes

[EPIKhub]

@batch-works @zdennignton Ive scheduled you for Sat Afternoon in our open space area, you will have part of the space for the afternoon 13:00 - 16:00

[zdennignton]

@EPIKhub Hello! Thanks for this. I see we're down in the schedule from 3.15- 4.15 pm. Is this our time slot or do we have the space from 1-4pm as above?

Best wishes, Zoe

[EPIKhub]

@zdennignton 1-4pm

[batch-works]

Hi @EPIKhub , sorry we missed the call yesterday. I hope most of it was covered during the last one! I had a few specific questions about how we'd run things on saturday. I saw we've got the openspace from 1-4pm, does that mean we should keep our printers and all equipment setup in the space for the entire day or just take everything from a safe space and set it up only for our time block? Like I said we're happy to run multiple 1h sessions, but as we're only in the schedule from 15:15- 16:15 will people know that we're doing multiple sessions? We could always setup the printers with a big file of pens that people could come and assemble, and just be around to answer questions/talk about 3D printers? Hope everything is coming together, let us know your thoughts. Thanks

[EPIKhub]

@batch-works ok sorted the schedule out for you. As you wanted timed slots I created a new "space" for you. You will now show up in the shedule twice. Your 1st session starts at 14:00, 2nd at 15:15. You will be able to settup at Lunch time which starts at 12:30 - We will sort out on Friday if we have a locked room or not this year

[zdennignton]

Oh great, thanks!