DIY
This note is about do-it-yourself (DIY) and do-it-together (DIT) approaches, especially in application to more-than-human collaborations.
Cf.
- ecosystem engineering
- niche construction
- habitat creation
- co-evolution
- repair and maintenance
- care and stewardship
- bottom-up, grassroots, and community-led initiatives
- open-source and collaborative design
- everybody designs (Manzini)
- critical making (Ratto and Boler)
Definitions
Citizen‑initiated acts of designing, making, and intervening in the constructed environments, often outside or alongside professional and institutional frameworks. Does not need to be limited to human actors Niche
References
Bach, Claire E., and Nathan McClintock. “Reclaiming the City One Plot at a Time? DIY Garden Projects, Radical Democracy, and the Politics of Spatial Appropriation.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space 39, no. 5 (2021): 859–78. https://doi.org/10.1177/2399654420974023.
Finn, Donovan. “DIY Urbanism: Implications for Cities.” Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 7, no. 4 (2014): 381–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549175.2014.891149.
Gervasio, Darcy, Kimberly Detterbeck, and Rebecca Oling. “The Slow Assessment Movement: Using Homegrown Rubrics and Capstone Projects for DIY Information Literacy Assessment.” Association of College & Research Libraries Conference Proceedings (Portland), 2015, 721–31.
Nijs, Greg, Giulietta Laki, Rafaella Houlstan, Guillaume Slizewicz, and Thomas Laureyssens. “Fostering More-than-Human Imaginaries: Introducing DIY Speculative Fabulation in Civic HCI.” Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (New York), NordiCHI ’20, 2020, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420147.
Ratto, Matt, and Boler Megan, eds. DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.
Rognoli, Valentina, Massimo Bianchini, Stefano Maffei, and Elvin Karana. “DIY Materials.” Materials & Design 86 (2015): 692–702. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2015.07.020.
Van Patter, Lauren, Turnbull, Jonathon, and Dodsworth, Jennifer. ‘“More-than-Human Collaborations” for Hacking the Anthropocene’. Feral Feminisms, no. 10 (2021): 85–102.
Ward Thompson, C., A. Curl, P. Aspinall, S. Alves, and A. Zuin. “Do Changes to the Local Street Environment Alter Behaviour and Quality of Life of Older Adults? The ‘DIY Streets’ Intervention.” Br J Sports Med 48, no. 13 (July 2014): 1059–65. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2012-091718.
Wolf, Marco, and Shaun McQuitty. “Understanding the Do-It-Yourself Consumer: DIY Motivations and Outcomes.” AMS Review 1, no. 3 (2011): 154–70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13162-011-0021-2.
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