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The Wooden Quilt: Carving Out Personal Narratives in a Women-Only Makerspace

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Bernd Ploderer,

Margot BreretonAuthors Info & Claims

DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Pages 1059 - 1071

https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395562

Published: 03 July 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Women can face barriers to participation in universal makerspace environments and are consequently underrepresented within them. Further, women have historically been excluded from learning and working with particular types of materials, such as wood. To explore how we might address these inequalities in regards to both access to makerspaces and to diverse materials, we present the wooden quilt probe. Through this probe we aimed to 1) create a makerspace environment specifically for women where they could engage with materials and tools traditionally found in more male-dominated craft environments, and 2) facilitate the sharing of stories and experiences with other women within the community center where this work took place. We contribute a rich understanding of the stories and experiences of women from the community center, and discuss the implications of the work for Interaction Design: how designers can contribute towards diversifying makerspace environments that enable women's participation within them, the benefits of intertwining storytelling and making, and the boundaries around sharing personal narratives.

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