Hackerspaces

A new industrial revolution. The age of making. From bits to atoms. Many people are excited by the possibilities offered by new fabrication technologies like 3D printers, and the way in which they are being used in hacker and makerspaces. But why is the power of hacking and making an idea whose time has come?

Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement takes the rise of the maker movement as its starting point. Hacker and makerspaces, fab labs, and DIY bio spaces are emerging all over the world. Based on a study of hacker and makerspaces across the US, the book explores cultures of hacking and making in the context of wider social changes, arguing that excitement about the maker movement is not just about the availability of new technologies, but the kinds of citizens we are expected to be.

Auteur
Sarah R. Davies is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

Contenu
Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
   There are a number of places this book could begin

2. Craft, DIY and Active Leisure
   It started with Stitch 'n' Bitch

3. Histories of Hacking and Making
   There should be diversity in the hackerspace movement, he says

4. How do Hackerspaces Work?
   Hacker and makerspaces can look, feel and smell quite different

5. The Hacker Spirit
   I'm a big advocate for this sort of lifestyle and culture

6. How do Hackerspaces Really Work?
   They don't have a sense of community that you find in a hackerspace

7. Exclusion
   Whatever it is females like to talk about

8. Cool Projects
   Rather, it was a Trojan horse

9. Emancipation and Commodification
   This was a movement that could do something good

10. Who is a Hacker?
    No one is claiming that involvement in a quilting circle is going to prompt a new industrial revolution

11. Conclusion
    Two reasons hacking is timely, and three reasons it is conflicted

Notes

Index