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Makerspaces and peer production: spaces of possibility, tension, post-automation, or liberation?
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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- Published
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- Accepted version
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WileyPage range
347-358Pages
464.0Book title
The handbook of peer productionPlace of publication
HobokenISBN
9781119537106Series
Handbooks in communication and mediaDepartment affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
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Christian Pentzold, Mathieu O'Neill, Sophie ToupinLegacy Posted Date
2021-02-22First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2021-02-22Usage metrics
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