Critical making, as a term, was initially used by Matt Ratto in 2008 and first published in 2009 to describe the combination of critical thinking with hands-on making—a kind of pedagogical practice that uses material engagements with technologies to open up and extend critical social reflection. In Ratto and Hoekema’s words, “critical making is an […]

Myths-Busting Additive Manufacturing, or 3D printing as we have come to know it, represents both an emergent personal production platform and a scale-able manufacturing process. Fundamentally it is really nothing new. Researchers and private enterprise first filed patents on stereolithography in the early 1980s. And it has been present in Industry for some time since, […]