Workshop: How to Study Makerspaces?

Recently, a specific type of places have sprung up over the globe to host social and technological experiments about fabrication and the act of making. Populated by an eclectic array of people commonly called makers, these makerspaces(e.g. hackerspaces, hacklabs, fablabs, living labs…) combine multiple and sometimes contradictory visions and utopias about new ways of living, producing and inhabiting the world. The current workshop aims at designing methods and tools to study makerspaces, by considering actors, tools, networks, and localized practices or discourses in larger socio-economics and political contexts across multiple sites. Here is the documentation about what we did in the workshop.