Special Issue "3D Technology for Sustainable Education, Culture and Divulgation"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Cecile Meier
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Guest Editor
Area of Sculpture at the Department of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna, 38320 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Interests: 3D technology; digital fabrication; low-cost technologies; augmented and virtual reality for classroom; sculptural heritage
Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Saorin
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Guest Editor
Department of Technical and Project Engineering and Architecture, Polytechnic School of Engineering, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Interests: 3D printer in education; 3D modelling; videogames in education
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Prof. Dr. Alejandro Bonnet de León
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Guest Editor
Area of Didactics at the Department of Fine Arts, University of La Laguna, 38320 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain
Interests: 3D printing and scanning; tridimensional technologies to improve skills in children and disabled people; paper engineering for artistic creations and educational environments.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The use of 3D technologies is being progressively integrated into our culture. From professional uses in the most advanced industries, to personal creations of the maker movement, digital fabrication labs or makerspaces in organizations, universities and even institutes. With the improvement of our digital devices, access to interactive 3D models and the management of 3D technologies is within everyone's reach and in an increasingly simple and inexpensive way. In addition, 3D printers, milling machines or cutting machines are accessible and allow anyone without advanced knowledge to manufacture objects.

3D technologies can change the way we produce, create, consume and disseminate. To promote the future use of 3D technologies and sustainable development, it is important to integrate them into educational environments and teach students to use or create through digital tools and digital fabrication. In classrooms, 3D technologies can also be used as additional resources in subjects where three-dimensional objects are studied, such as monuments or historical works, technical drawing, anatomy, biology, relief maps, etc. In the investigation in the cultural field and the dissemination of three-dimensional objects, the possibilities of creating and disseminating digital models or 3D printed replicas make possible the access and visualization of incomplete, inaccessible or already disappeared models. This can improve the study of archaeological sites, artistic or historical pieces and can favor access to information to a much larger number of people.

This Special Issue aims to gather research on the use of various 3D technologies, from digital models, virtual or augmented reality, video games, immersive realities to the use of 3D printers or milling machines to materialize objects.  The works are intended to have a connection with educational environments or apply the technologies to the cultural field and sustainable Divulgation.

Dr. Cecile Meier
Prof. Dr. Jose Luis Saorin
Prof. Dr. Alejandro Bonnet de León
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • 3D technology for sustainable divulgation
  • digital fabrication for education and culture
  • sustainable use of 3D technologies
  • education
  • cultural heritage
  • digital fabrication
  • sustainable development
  • makerspace
  • future

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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