The Distributed Design Learning Hub
Designing circular, resilient, collaborative, and just futures is complex.
This Learning Hub aims to provide resources and practical learning materials to support you in exploring new topics, navigating intersectional practices, and expanding your knowledge. The Hub is collaboratively developed with the Distributed Design community and further expanded through the European-funded project make-a-thek.
Currently you can find more than 131 resources curated in 10 thematic areas containing 43 publications, papers & reports, 40 masterclasses, documentaries & podcasts, 33 toolkits, methods & frameworks, and 22 interactive learning resources from more than 43 different authors.
Choose a thematic area from the list to get started, or search for your own area of interest.
Browse curated highlights from our collection
The Distributed Design Masterclass
The programme is intended to assist craft practitioners in the adoption and use of ICT tools, with the aim of encouraging innovative forms of creation that integrate cutting-edge digital fabrication technologies into the practice of craft-making.
Shemakes Open Toolkit
The shemakes open toolkit is a rich resource to bring innovation and gender parity to the textile and clothing industry. It documents the over 70 activities carried out throughout the shemakes project, with downloadable and complete instructions. Find your next project today at https://shemakes.eu/learning
Remix el Barrio - Biomaterials Recipes
Designing and crafting from food waste in the neighbourhood of Poblenou, Barcelona, 'Remix el Barrio' is a local ecosystem of ‘Food Waste Material Makers’ designing a series of biomaterial products and experiences from food surplus and waste.
Citizen Sensing: A Toolkit. Making Sense
Making sense was funded by the European Commission within the H2020 Call ICT2015 Research and Innovation. It was designed to show how open-source hardware and software, digital maker practices and open-source design principles could be used effectively by local communities to appropriate their own technological sensing tools to make sense of their environment to address environmental issues concerning air, water, soil and sound pollution. Based on nine pilots in Amsterdam, Barcelona and Prishtina, Making Sense developed a toolkit for participatory sensing aimed at deepening understanding of the processes which might enable collective awareness. This book is part of that toolkit.