Paulien

Research document Paulien Doedée - Product Design - Open Design

BouwKeet

The makerspace from Bospolder-Tussendijken is a public workspace made for everyone in the neighbourhood, but especially for kids at the age of 10 until 15 years old. There are different workspaces with a variety of machines. Hypermodern 3D-printers and digital lasercutters, but also traditional machines which are more suitable for crafts using wood and metal. People working at the makerspace are volunteers, some technichians, but mainly a lot of people from the neighbourhood.

The neighbourhood

First class, we've been asked to walk around neighourhood Spangen in the South of Rotterdam. We had to make a map of the sensory experiences in that specific area. My first impression of the surroundings felt friendly. There are a lot of different cultures placed in this area and there is visibly attention for places where children can play and sport. The strange thing was that these spaces where quiet, dispite of the attention to it.

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  This is the map I've made from the route me and Dave walked through the neighourhood