Transforming Ideas into Tangible Artifacts: Discovering Making, Makers, and the Making Experience
Although there is a substantial body of literature exploring Making and Maker communities, a definition of Making and a characterization of Makers are still…
Understanding Missing Diversity in Makerspaces through the Lens of Need Satisfaction and Social Identification
Makerspaces offer individuals the opportunity to bring ideas to life, access specialised tools and machinery, and join a community, thus potentially enhancing psychological needs…
Unlikely Alliances: A Tool-centered Approach to Collaborative Agencies in Improbable Constellations
What if tools were active collaborators – accomplices of users in gaining access to technology and co-designing desired futures? Through her PhD project Katrin…
This Is How I Felt: Crafting Conductive Wool Artefacts as an Embodied Practice to Regulate Anxiety
Beyond contributing a new way to make soft, responsive electronic materials, this work suggests that sometimes the most innovative approach to wellbeing technology isn't…
Makers, Crafters, Tinkerers: How Identities and Biographies Come into Being
How does one become a maker? What defines a maker and how does one identify with this role? What processes do makers go through…
Making It Work—Experiences of Women Who Engage in Technological Making at Home
This paper presents the results of a 5-month diary study into the practices and routines that develop around technological making in the home, particularly…
Making Your Makerspace: A Tale of Tension
Makerspaces hold a lot of potential for participation in innovation, democratization of technology, and as a resource for community building – but not all…
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