Tag: men’s shed
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CHI 2016: Making Community: The Wider Role of Makerspaces in Public Life
We’re very happy to have had a paper accepted into CHI 2016 based on the makerspaces survey we carried out in the early stages of In the Making. The pre-print is now available to download. Summary Makerspaces are a growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in innovation and peer learning is…
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Four Makerspaces and a Shed
Over the past three months, I’ve been doing site visits to maker and hacker spaces across Scotland. For the first phase of In the Making, we’re surveying existing facilities in the UK to identify what opportunities and challenges they might present to disabled users. Two Types of Space It quickly became clear that makerspaces fell…