PS) ... and last (but certainly not least!) some thoughts on making culture itself from the Journal's new 'Varia' section: 'Making or making do? Challenging the mythologies of making and hacking' by Morgan G. Ames, Silvia Lindtner, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Lilly Nguyen, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Nusrat Jahan, Steven J. Jackson and Paul Dourish. // http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-12-makerspaces-and-institutions On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Kat Braybrooke <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello all,
We are very pleased to announce the release of JoPP's 12th Special Issue: Makerspaces and Institutions.
-----> http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-12- makerspaces-and-institutions/
Makerspaces are subjects in a plurality of institutional advances and developments, catching the imaginations of a wide variety of organisations and other actors drawn to a buzz of enticing possibilities. Depending upon the nature of the encounter, makerspaces are becoming cradles for entrepreneurship, innovators in education, nodes in open hardware networks, studios for digital artistry, ciphers for social change, prototyping shops for manufacturers, remanufacturing hubs in circular economies, twenty-first century libraries, emblematic anticipations of commons-based, peer-produced post capitalism, workshops for hacking technology and its politics, laboratories for smart urbanism, galleries for hands-on explorations in material culture... not forgetting, of course, spaces for simply having fun.
What kinds of hybrid arrangements emerge through these encounters, and what becomes of the occupied factories for peer production theory? How are institutions reshaping aspirations for autonomous, even democratic, fabrication and experimentation – aspirations that were – and are – important parts of makerspace narratives? And what do these encounters mean for institutions, whether in education, culture, business, development or some other sphere; how are they too evolving through their exposure to grassroots and community making practices?
This is a mega issue, exploring institutional developments in all their complexity through 13 research articles (each of which have been peer reviewed and revised through the Journal’s particularly transparent process, which makes all review steps public) and 7 practitioner contributions from key leaders working in the field.
Please take a look, tell us what you think, and help us spread the discussions through your networks. This project is the result of a long labour of love for the many makers and thinkers involved, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.
With thanks, Issue 12 Editors Kat Braybrooke and Adrian Smith