Byera Hadley research reports
Chris Bamborough / 2014
Making Culture
Digital Technology, Community Development, Construction & Materiality
Australia, United States
This project explores maker spaces as spaces of community personal fabrication. Maker spaces are defined as physical locations providing access to digital tools for empowerment to develop. It proposes that makers spaces have the ability to empower communities to shape their own environments in new ways.
“Making Culture” examines the communities and the virtual and physical spaces that develop around digital making. The study identified key case studies in the US and Australia that represent this emergence in order to learn how they operate and what they achieve. Maker spaces in Boston and San Francisco are studied as well as the MakerCon conference and Annual World Maker Faire held in San Francisco in May 2015.
