'In the making': a co-constructed mapping and feasibility study of digital fabrication labs and their potential to catalyse cultural change.

数字化制造是一项日益普及的新技术。它允许我们从计算机文件打印三维物体。我们想了解这项技术是否可以帮助改善残疾人、他们的家庭和他们所居住的社区的生活。已经有残疾人使用这项技术来设计和生产坡道等物体的例子，使日常生活变得更加轻松。我们想知道是否可以更进一步。人们可以制造别人想买的东西吗？或者制作一些东西来引起人们对残疾人权利的关注？或者创作艺术？我们与残疾人合作，希望为他们提供数字制造的机会和培训。我们会把移动设备带到社区场所，让人们不用费劲去使用。残疾人将在研究的每个阶段为我们提供帮助，我们共同产生的见解将用于探索人们如何为自己做出改变，而不是等待“官方”回应。通过对残疾数字制造者的技能产生积极的形象和叙述，我们希望抵消主流媒体对残疾人被动、值得“怜悯”或依赖福利的负面报道。

Digital fabrication is a new technology which is growing in popularity. It allows us to print three-dimensional objects from computer files. We want to find out whether this technology can help to improve the lives of disabled people, their families and the communities in which they live. There are already examples of disabled people using this technology to design and produce objects, such as ramps, that make day-to-day life easier. We want to know if we can take this further. Could people make things that others want to buy? Or make things that draw attention to disability rights? Or make art? Working with disabled people, we want to offer access to, and training in, digital fabrication. We will bring mobile equipment to community venues so that people don't have to go out of their way to use it. Disabled people will help us with every stage of the research, and the insights that we produce together will be used to explore how people can make changes for themselves, rather than waiting for 'official' responses. By generating positive images and narratives about the skills of disabled digital fabricators, we hope to counteract the often negative coverage in the mainstream media of disabled people as passive, deserving of 'pity' or relying on benefits.