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Maker Assembly #1: It’s a wrap
Our first Maker Assembly event at the V&A was a great success, by all accounts. We had some nice feedback from participants and speakers; and as a test, it was useful: it felt to me like there is demand for this kind of critical conversation about making, and this is not served well at the…
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Antiuniversity and Deinstitutionalisation
There’s some power in negating what already exists. Even if you reinforce the dominant institutions by accepting their framing and language. Anyway, without wishing to get into that, I’m intrigued by these anti-school systems that are popping up. This quote via Antiuniversity, who are reviving an original idea from – when else – 1968: ‘The…
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Ruskin and the Maker Movement
I’m helping put together a conference later this month at the V&A called Maker Assembly. It’s an attempt to catalyse a more critical reflective discussion about maker culture, and add some more depth to our understanding of what making is about, and how we can do it better. As part of that effort, I interviewed…
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Joseph Wright – A Blacksmith’s Shop
Hannah Fox of Derby Museums gave a wonderful talk last night about the rebirth of the Silk Mill. She showed some of the collection, including this picture from their collection of Joseph Wright works. I couldn’t resist posting it here: such a beautiful image of material, and the heroic maker who works it.
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Loughborough Market Town
I spoke today at an event organised by Loughborough University Arts, as part of their Market Town programme. I promised I’d post my slides, and some useful links, and so here they are. Makerspaces on the High Street There is a great deal of interest in the rise of makerspaces and other sites of autonomous…
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My slides and notes from Made North
Hello Sheffield! If you were at the Made North conference, and want to refer back to anything I said, here are my slides, and a few links for reference.
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Makers, come together
For several years now, I’ve been turning over the idea of a gathering of makers. Not a Maker Faire, that aims to bring new people into the fold, but a coming together of people who are already makers, or who are interested in making as a practice, a progressive movement; an energy that demands critical…
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Speaking at Made North
I’ll be speaking, and on a panel talking about the New Maker Economy, at the Made North Conference on 18 June, which is part of Sheffield Design week.
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Wevolver | Makermap
Nice to see Wevolver using our open data set of UK makerspaces for their Maker map. Source: Wevolver | Makermap
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Nesta Makerspaces research complete
I’m pleased to say the research project I’ve been working on with Nesta is now complete. Together with Hannah Stewart, I’ve been collecting data to build a picture off the state of makerspaces in the UK, and we have published a structured data set under an open Creative Commons licence here, together with a handy…
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