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Makerspaces and peer production: spaces of possibility, tension, post-automation, or liberation?

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posted on 2023-06-09, 23:07 authored by Kat Braybrooke, Adrian SmithAdrian Smith
Makerspaces are open community workshops for peer production which provide people with technical tools and training to experiment with making, learning, and hands-on participation around material cultures. These workshops come in a variety of forms, and they are called by many names, including shared machine shops, hackerspaces, fab labs, digital studios and many other labels – including makerspace, which we will use as an umbrella term to keep things simple. What they have in common, however, is a commitment to providing people with the skills and means needed to access versatile design and fabrication technologies, and to fostering communities that share an open and collaborative ethos regarding the possibilities that democratized design and fabrication technologies might offer personally, socially, economically and culturally. In this chapter, we discuss the diverse dynamics of makerspaces, and how encounters between makerspaces and institutional interests in particular are shaping what is possible. We also ask what is gained from the radical redistribution of prototyping capabilities in societies that makerspaces represent, and what is diminished.

Funding

TRANSIT - Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (FP7 SSH.2013.3.2-1) (DRIFT lead); G1256; EUROPEAN UNION; FP7-SSH-2013-1 (613169)

Responsible Innovation and Happiness: A New Approach to the Effect of ICTs; G1889; UNIVERSITY OF OSLO; 170100 - Happy ICT

KNOWING: the KNOWledge politics of experImeNtinG with smart urbanism; G2005; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/N018907/1

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Publisher

Wiley

Page range

347-358

Pages

464.0

Book title

The handbook of peer production

Place of publication

Hoboken

ISBN

9781119537106

Series

Handbooks in communication and media

Department affiliated with

  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Christian Pentzold, Mathieu O'Neill, Sophie Toupin

Legacy Posted Date

2021-02-22

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2021-02-22

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