Resources
Looking for inspiration for Critical Making? Explore a wide range of guidelines and resources here.
Tools & Activities
Zine Project
As part of exploring non-traditional ways of publishing our research outputs, this zine summarises our experiences and learnings from 2.5 years of participatory research in Critical Making.
Critical Making Tool Kit
This tool kit contains best practices and learnings from the Critical Making project to support participatory-reflexive practices amongst maker communities and researchers.
Critical Making Self-Reflection Tool
This self-reflection tool includes a set of cards with guiding questions to help makers think critically about the social and ecological responsibility of maker projects.
Critical Making Online Game
This online game invites makers to explore the responsibility of their activities in a fun and engaging way.
How to add Critical Thinking to Making
We introduce and explore the critical making movement as a broad, global yet hyper-locally relevant phenomenon
Build your own Flashlight Activity Kit
This DIY flashlight activity kit is an exemplary tool for applying Critical Making in educational settings.
Guidelines
Youth Education
Critical Making in Education Guidelines
The Critical Making Guideline for Education is based on five interviews with international critical makers involved in education. The interview recordings are available online as a podcast series here. In addition, blog articles on the interviews can be found on the Wikifactory community page.
Critical Making in Education Manifesto
The Critical Making in Education Manifesto is a poster with crucial identified statements for frame-working Critical Making in education. It is based on discussions and feedback received during six workshops in 2022. The manifesto embodies crucial learnings for Critical Making in Education.
Gender-Inclusiveness
Guidelines for gender-inclusive making
This set of guidelines takes on a broader approach to inclusion and addresses several dimensions of marginalisation to create more inclusive makerspaces. The collected insights were enriched by the community engaged in the Critical Making initiative and discussions with makerspaces across Europe, Asia and Africa.
Workshop Concept for Gender-Inclusive Making
This workshop concept aims to foster collaborative reflections on gender-inclusive making, where members from diverse backgrounds can use the manual as a starting point to think about fostering greater inclusiveness in their space.
Recommendations on Creating an Inclusive Makerspace (German)
This presentation touches on inspiring stories of exciting people around the world who have found their way to making by overcoming different barriers related to gender and intersectional dimensions of inequality.
Socially Responsible Open Hardware
Guidelines for socially responsible making
This set of guidelines offers a summary on how to promote social responsibility as part of open hardware development. It includes a self-reflection tool to help explore how one’s work can align better with the five dimensions of sustainable making. The guidelines are targeted at makers, maker spaces, and organisations promoting maker activities.
Literature
Critical Making Responsibility Framework
This framework was developed by the Critical Making consortium to analyze responsible innovation processes in grassroots innovation, specifically in the practice of making.
Critical Making Special Issue
This special issue summarises the project’s outcomes on the various aspects of Critical Making in a collection of scientific publications, which approach Critical Making from different angles.
External Resources
Co-Evaluation Tool
An open source tool for the co-evaluation of projects
Societal Readiness Thinking Tool
A tailorable tool for the evaluation of projects through a RRI lens
Online Course: Basic Regulations & Ethics for Citizen science
This free course provides basic knowledge about citizen scientists’ rights and obligations in gathering data, analysing data, and co-authoring research papers.
Co-Evaluation White Paper of Co-Act Project
Aim to give back more than you take from the environment and include accounting practices that value natural resources.
RRI Tools
A wide array of RRI related tools for different use cases
Evaluation in Citizen Science: The Art of Tracing a Moving Target
An open-access book on the evaluation of citizen science, aimed at understanding the multiple traces it leaves in its direct and broader environment.
In the Press
Do-it-yourself-Szene: Wenn Laien kreativ forschen
Exploring the intersection between creative lay research and scientific work.
Doers, Makers and Mentoring
Barbara Kieslinger from the ZSI examines the diversity of the “maker” movement.
Manufacturing in the Digital Age
Interview with Christina Rebel, from Wikifactory, on the Critical Making Project.
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