Introduction
Intro
This document is to be intended as a description of the Deliverable 3.2: Full documentation of all prototypes.
One of the key aims of the opencare project is to collaboratively develop a how-to guide to document activities in the field or in the lab/makerspace in such a way that documentation can be fed back to the online conversation.
The full documentation of the prototypes developed is publicly released on Github as repositories of the "organization" opencarecc (https://github.com/opencarecc).
The deliverable 3.2 is composed of source files, auxiliary design files, bill of materials and list of suppliers, software and firmware, multimedia (photos and videos), instructions and explanations.
Information and updates are related to the actual prototypes developed (stage of implementation, debugging and evaluations, usability testing, executive design review and redesign, engagement of the diverse communities involved).
Summary
How we documented the prototypes
Special Prototype
Community Prototype
Credits
Special Prototype
The section Special Prototype hosts some screenshots taken from the documentation websites of two "special" prototypes: INPE and OPEN RAMPETTE.
These two projects have this "special" status since WeMake community and staff were directly involved in managing the local co-design and development processes. Both prototypes, INPE and OPENRAMPETTE, are part of a wider activity carried out in collaboration with City of Milan. They included an assessment of the community’s needs and the redesigning of the city accessibility policy, rewired in a co-design process after the underperformance of City of Milan's top down attempt taking place in the previous two years. (see Technical Review for details)
INPE was mainly developed during year 2016, as a result of a cycle of co-design sessions that took place at WeMake, where citizens were invited to describe anonymously - and therefore find a solution - to the obstacles they had to face on a daily basis and preventing their well-being.
OPEN RAMPETTE was developed during year 2017, addressing the problem of accessibility to Milan commercial activities (stores, restaurants, cafès, exc.). It was carried out as a cycle of co-design sessions, together with citizens and shop owners, with a specific focus on two main aspects: the complex regularization procedure for shops’ accessibility and the inefficient temporary ramp call system.
Community Prototype
The section Community Prototype shows some screenshots displaying the documentation websites of 4 projects that took part in the opencare Maker in Residence (MIR), a special residency programme organized by WeMake and using WeMake fablab as main location.
Preceded by a Call for Makers, the MIR took place between April and September 2017 and involved 6 different groups of makers (national and international), WeMake staff, WeMake offline community and opencare online community.
During their stay (two weeks long on average) the teams had the opportunity to take part in an intense collaborative environment, exchanging knowledge and expertises in order to improve and accelerate their project.
Among the variety of activities organized during the Maker in Residence, it is possible to list:
using digital fabrication tools and methodologies
practising agile planning methods
receiving feedbacks from opencare network of experts
connecting with local and online creative communities
participating and organizing dissemination events
exploring new business models
testing and displaying the prototypes to a proactive audience.
Prototype repository
All the content above is publicly available as "source code" and contained in the following repositories:
OPEN RAMPETTE
BREATHING GAMES
VOICE INSTRUMENTS
Prototype website
Prototypes documentation is publicly displayed as collection of websites linked from the PROJECTS menu of the opencare landing page (http://opencare.cc/):
OPEN RAMPETTE
ALLERGOKI
BREATHING GAMES
VOICE INSTRUMENTS
MicroWebsiteTemplate
An additional repository to mention is MicroWebsiteTemplate:
https://github.com/opencarecc/MicroWebsiteTemplate
A user can find all the code to create a website for documenting an open source project.
WeMake designed the website in order to contain most common documentation elements useful to engage related communities.
All the prototype websites were "forked" from the starting base template.
https://opencarecc.github.io/MicroWebsiteTemplate
The opencare (http://opencare.cc/) website is using the same technical structure and layout of the prototypes website with a small modification to improve the home page.
Contributors:
Chiara Ferrero
Alessandro Contini
Costantino Bongiorno
WeMake | fablab makersapace: is based in Milan (Italy) and provides a series of innovative services and training to the creative community of the region in the field of digital and traditional manufacturing, high-value technologies and access to a fully equipped Fab Lab. We foster the development of a new model of designer-producer (maker) and small-scale company by facilitating the engineering phase, the rapid iteration of design solutions, the on-demand production of physical/digital artifacts.
License
Copyright WeMake
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688670.
The book has been built on top of the gitbook service.
References
More info about the opencare.cc project can be found here http://opencare.cc
THANKS!
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