“Can I Download a Car?”: Emerging Consumer Issues for Online Access, Communication and Sharing of 3d Printer Files

3D Printing Rights & Responsibilities: consumer perceptions & realities

L HEEMSBERGEN, R Fordyce, M Arnold, T Apperley, T Birtchnell, B Nansen

2016-01-01

Social Practices of 3D Printing: Decentralising Control, and Reconfiguring Regulation

L Heemsbergen, R Fordyce, B Nansen, T Apperley, M Arnold, T Birtchnell

2016-01-01

This paper considers the social practices of 3D printing by comparing consumer perspectives and practices with legal scholarship o..

Things, tags, topics: Thingiverse's object-centred network

Robbie Fordyce, Luke Heemsbergen, Thomas Apperley, Michael Arnold, Thomas Birtchnell, Michael Luo, Bjorn Nansen

2016-01-01

This article details findings from a multidisciplinary research team’s inquiry into the social uses of 3D printing. It applies dig..

3D printing and university makerspaces: Surveying countercultural communities in institutional settings

R Fordyce, L Heemsbergen, P Mignone, B Nansen

2015-01-01