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DIWO Hammers: A Collective Game of Making and Reimagining Tools (2025)

Ioanna Charalambous
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This project investigates the concept of Do-It-With-Others (DIWO) through the design of a collaborative game that invites participants to collectively create unconventional hammers. By decentralizing authorship and sourcing materials from others—divided into “handles,” “heads,” and “joiners”—the project shifts the role of the designer from maker to facilitator. Three unique hammers were assembled from donated parts, each explored through practical testing and speculative use-cases. This process challenges traditional ideas of tool-making, function, and authorship, and highlights how improvisation and collective input can generate poetic and thought-provoking design artifacts.
typeresearch exposition
date22/05/2025
published25/05/2025
last modified25/05/2025
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copyrightCopyright © 2025 [Ioanna Charalambous] All rights reserved. This work may be viewed for educational and non-commercial purposes. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without the prior permission of the author.
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3707742/3707743
published inDepartment of Multimedia & Graphic Arts - Cyprus University of Technology - [Internal]
portal issue9. DSI 524 2025 Final Project - Here Comes the Hammer


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