Makerspaces also facilitate new sociotechnical arrangements, and ethnographic accounts have depicted them as grassroots innovation movements (Smith et al. A typical makerspace like the feminist creativity centre Mz* Baltazar's Lab in Austria, for example, provides tools (from3Dprinters to sewing machines), community support (from digital learning courses to small business funding), and a sense of shared belonging (such as lifelong membership) to its participants (Braybrooke and Smith 2021). Because their infrastructural engagements bridge virtual and physical environments, OA, CC, and FLOSS are also embedded in urban metabolisms, participating in wider sociocultural transformations toward more circular economies by deploying sustainable development principles that invite publics to "design globally and make locally" in ways that keep materials in use (Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2018 Kostakis et al. We also ask what is gained from the radical redistribution of prototyping capabilities in societies that makerspaces represent, and what is diminished. In this chapter, we discuss the diverse dynamics of maker- spaces, and how encounters between makerspaces and institutional interests in particular are shaping what is possible. 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.
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.
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.
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