Cultivating sustainable developments with makerspaces | Cultivando desenvolvimento sustentável com espaços maker

Smith, Adrian; Light, Ann

doi:10.18617/liinc.v13i1.3900

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“…At the same time, it is clear that the strengths of maker organisations like [Anon] come from their responsiveness to local needs, and their embeddedness in communities to not only develop new artefacts and systems, but to also account for the skills, expertise and social infrastructures that surround these. As noted by [37], rather than seeing the products of spaces like [Anon] as being immediately transferable across contexts and transnational boundaries, we suggest instead further inquiry into the ways place-specific maker endeavours may transfer instead. As with the work that [Anon] has conducted, this does not mean simply transferring the tools typically associated with makerspaces from one locale to another, but to embed a mode of enquiry where discarded objects are prised open, taken apart, remade, and the tools, practices and skills are themselves created with respect to the local communities the space serves.…”

Section: Making At the Marginsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Making at the Margins: Making in a Resource-constrained e-Waste Recycling Centre HCI 1 and CSCW literature has extensively studied a wide variety of maker cultures. In this paper, we focus on understanding what making is like for people and communities who do not have access to advanced technological infrastructures. We report on six-month-long ethnographic fieldwork at a non-profit, resource-constrained, e-waste recycling centre that engages members from a low socioeconomic status (SES) community in making activities. Our findings show that making in such a setting is shaped by local economic and social factors in a resource-constrained environment and highlight how this community engages in a wide range of making activities. In describing these making activities, we emphasize how making was conducted to purposely enable ongoing and future making by others; promoted the wellbeing and skill development of centre members; and was socially-engaged to address concerns in the local community. We conclude by discussing how such type of making contributes a new understanding of maker culture, one that is appreciative of resource-constraints, integrates different sources of value, and is embedded in local place.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing ~ Field Studies • Human-centred computing~ Ethnographic studies

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Section: Making At the Marginsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Making at the Margins

Vyas

Vines

2019

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…Open workshops are often framed as guided by a more or less explicit set of progressive values, encompassing social sustainability and justice, in addition to enhancing wellbeing (Holmes, 2018), where alternatives to mass production, consumerism and global capitalism come to fruition (Collins, 2018;Kohtala, 2017;Luckman, 2018;Smith, 2020;Smith & Light, 2017). Indeed, often such spaces have been read for difference, following the diverse economy lens proposed by Gibson-Graham (2008); Smith & Light, 2017;Vincent, 2022). Such a lens has been applied to explore every day and beyond-economic practices occurring in open workshops that align with volunteer work, as well as adaptive strategies that promote gratitude, solidarity, and trust (Schmid & Smith, 2021).…”

Section: Makerspaces Sustainability Transitions and Progressive Valuesmentioning

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Making sustainability transitions in collaborative spaces of making: Exploring opportunities and limitations in Turin

Brandellero

Niutta

2023

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“…As pointed out by Smith and Light (2017), hackerspaces contribute in a concrete manner to the circulation of technical and technological knowledge throughout different spaces and sectors of society. They must be seen as Movimento hackerspace: um estudo sobre a experiência brasileira Resumo: Os hackerspaces fazem parte de fenômeno emergente em todo o mundo de construção de espaços e infraestruturas alternativos de pesquisa, experimentação e aprendizado.…”

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Hackerspace movement: a study of the Brazilian experience

Martins

Albagli

2020

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Hackerspaces are part of a phenomenon emerging all over the world of building alternative spaces and infrastructure for research, experimenting and learning. They differ from other institutionally established spaces in their principles of autonomy: they are financed and managed by their own members and, as a result, they enjoy greater freedom in the definition of their themes and issues. In this article, we present the results of a research project carried out in 2017 about Brazilian hackerspaces. In the analysis, we resorted to the structure proposed by Smith and others (2017) in their study about grassroots innovation movements, organized into four complementary aspects as follows: context, framings, spaces and strategies, and pathways. Thus, we contemplate the history of the movement in Brazil; meanings and narratives shared by participants; spaces and strategies employed in their structure and organization; and, finally, case studies selected because they can be articulated with the local community issues. The survey identified 21 active hackerspaces in the country in 2017, distributed in the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast and South. Sixteen of them answered a questionnaire that revealed the diversity of their activities and proximity to the university community, among other characteristics. The case studies have shown that, besides contributing to the broader circulation of technological knowledge, hackerspaces are also spaces for the development of practices and technologies that seek to answer social and environmental issues, such as sustainability in the disposal of electronic waste and citizen monitoring of the environment.

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Cultivating sustainable developments with makerspaces | Cultivando desenvolvimento sustentável com espaços maker

Cited by 25 publications

References 2 publications

Making at the Margins

Making at the Margins

Making sustainability transitions in collaborative spaces of making: Exploring opportunities and limitations in Turin

Hackerspace movement: a study of the Brazilian experience

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