Research on the Maker Movement
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Anna Waldman-Brown:
"Here is an ongoing compendium of studies, investigations, and documentation regarding the global Maker Movement, fab lab phenomenon, and hackerspace activities-- loosely defined as the trend toward democratisation of technology and innovation. Please note that this is a temporary list for convenience, and will eventually be incorporated into a proper and better-organised website. This is not an exhaustive list, it is not affiliated with any formal institutions, and the order is random within each section. To add new articles, make comments, or report broken links, kindly comment here or email [email protected]."
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Introductory
Visit a local makerspace using these maps: http://district.life/2015/04/21/definitive-maker-map-mapping/
Introductory USA news articles:
Critical article/introduction: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13/making-it-2?currentPage=all
Less critical introduction: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brit-morin/what-is-the-maker-movemen_b_3201977.html
Comprehensive literature review (2005) “Community-based digital fabrication workshops: a review of the research literature”: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/49214/
Economics and Statistics:
Hardware by the Numbers (with data about maker movement): https://presentate.com/noupside/talks/hardware-trends-hardware-by-the-numbers
Feb 2014: mostly US-based hardware and “maker” stats: http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2014/02/13/maker-movement-and-3d-printing-industry-stats/
HAX hardware trends, 2015: http://www.slideshare.net/haxlr8r/hardware-trends-2015?imm_mid=0dc6e6&cmp=em-iot-na-na-newsltr_20151119
Books on the topic:
Democratizing Innovation: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/democratizing-innovation (free for download)
Scroll to the bottom for the Fab Lab recommended book list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U-jcBWOJEjBT5A0N84IUubtcHKMEMtndQPLCkZCkVsU/pub?single=true&gid=0&output=html
Misc
International maker blogs!: MAKE’s official blog: http://makezine.com/ (from USA) http://makery.info/ (from France) http://plugnmake.com/ (from Netherlands) http://diyhacking.com/ (from India)
MAKE’s Makerspace Playbook: http://makered.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Makerspace-Playbook-Feb-2013.pdf
Advice on getting started: http://makezine.com/magazine/make-40/how-to-make-a-makerspace/
High School Makerspace Tools & Materials; Makerspace, 2012; http://bit.ly/makerspaceinventory
Fab lab FAQ: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/faq/
Fab Labs Around the World: https://www.fablabs.io/
Fab Foundation: https://www.fablabs.io/
Fab Academy: http://fabacademy.org/
Starting a Fab Lab: 10 Things We Learned: http://fablabtulsa.blogspot.com/2012/04/starting-fab-lab-10-things-we-learned.html
Up-to-date recommended equipment list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AtIlZyLn99e6dGRleUJTY043a3FucUhFUVVBYTdxS3c&single=true&gid=0&output=html
Starting a Fab Lab reference list: http://www.petertroxler.com/the-fablab-reference-list-2-0/
The Fab Lab Life Cycle; report of the FAB10 workshops; Pieter van der Hijden & Beno Juarez, 2014; http://slidesha.re/1wzP2mJ
History of hacklabs and hackerspaces: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/
Ecovillages research: http://ecovillage.org/node/8650
Critiques of the Maker Movement
Quotes from Anna’s favorite critiques: http://district.life/2015/09/29/are-we-apolitical-bourgeois-hobbyists-promoting-a-materialist-patriarchy/
Excellent general critique of political aspects: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/13/making-it-2?currentPage=all
Critique of Anderson’s Next Industrial Revolution book: http://www.technologyreview.com/review/508821/the-difference-between-makers-and-manufacturers/
Critique of digital manufacturing: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/
General academic critique: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-5-shared-machine-shops/editorial-section/editorial-note-we-now-have-the-means-of-production-but-where-is-my-revolution/
Critique of utopian open sourcing everything: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/12/23/the-civilization-kit https://medium.com/re-form/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you-should-252fdbcf76c8
Socialist critique, with suggestions for potential revolutionary activities: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/04/3d-printing-industrial-revolution-rundle/
Critiques of Western-Centric Perspectives:
Silvia Lindtner, Anna Greenspan, David Li. 2015. Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturers and Maker Entrepreneurs. In Proc. of Aarhus Conference on "Critical Alternatives," ACM, Aarhus, Denmark. [pdf] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/chinas-mass-production-system/370898/
Incorporating unasked-for laptops (OLPC) into indigenous language activism in Peru: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-5-shared-machine-shops/peer-reviewed-articles/beyond-technological-fundamentalism-peruvian-hack-labs-and-inter-technological-education/
critique of Anderson’s free labor statement in China: Lindtner, S. and Guimarin, A. “Making! the Other story” http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2014/04/29/making-the-other-story/
Kenyan perspective on how “a market of wants is a completely different economic system from a market of needs”: http://ihub.co.ke/blogs/26537/musings-of-a-maker-part-ii
Critiques of Diversity and Inclusion
(or, Are We All Privileged White Boys?)
Critique of patriarchial norms in Maker movement: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/why-i-am-not-a-maker/384767/
What the Maker Movement Needs to Learn, with examples: https://impactdesignhub.org/2015/11/18/what-the-maker-movement-needs-to-learn/#more-18026
Critical perspective on how modern makers fail to interact with grassroots artisans: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fNpWPrOUoxZXZQZEhGeWtScVU&authuser=0
Research Collaborations:
Fab Lab International: http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/
Explores the world of Makers and Maker Laboratories from several points of view – ethnographic, economic, technological, manufacturing and design – in order to understand how this phenomenon is evolving: http://makersinquiry.org/
In the UK:
University of Sussex: http://grassrootsinnovations.org http://steps-centre.org/project/grassroots/ http://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/design-products-research-grassroots-makespaces/ http://www.reconomy.org/ https://escies.wordpress.com/
Focus on China: http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/projects/living-research-making-china/
London, Montreal, and Paris (adding more cities, mostly in North America and Europe): https://collaborativespacesstudy.wordpress.com/ http://desis-network.org/dop
Journal of Peer Production: http://peerproduction.net/ USA, economics/law focus: http://www.theselc.org/ P2P Lab, Greece/International: www.p2plab.gr/en/publications Wiki on p2p manufacturing resources: http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Manufacturing Ecovillages: http://ecovillage.org/node/8650
Regional: International
[2015] Mapping the social network of fab labs, makerspaces, and hackerspaces: http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2016/social-network-analysis/a-map-of-fab-labs-makerspaces-hackerspaces-on-twitter/
University of Sussex extensive Case Study on Fab Labs and Hackerspaces: http://grassrootsinnovations.org/2015/04/03/new-case-study-reports-on-fablabs-and-hackerspaces/
ALL papers from the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (originator of the fab lab): http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/
Dr Gershenfeld’s paper in Foreign Affairs on global fab labs: http://cba.mit.edu/docs/papers/12.09.FA.pdf
Dr Troxler’s “Making the Third Industrial Revolution”: https://www.facebook.com/download/112435485623112/023_troxler_inDesign.pdf
2014 academic panel discussion on hacker/maker/repair culture: https://civic.mit.edu/blog/natematias/researching-makers-hackerspaces-repair-and-civic-hacking
A movement in the making; Deloitte University Press, 2013; http://bit.ly/1qaQUys
Survey of international repair cafes and hackerspacs: http://www.docdroid.net/14ixs/survey-of-repair-cafes-and-hackerspaces.pdf.html
Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of an emerging productive model [2015]: http://www.p2plab.gr/en/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Futures.pdf
[2014] “Production and governance in hackerspaces: A manifestation of Commons-based peer production in the physical realm?”. [site] [text]
[2014] “Commons-based peer production and digital fabrication: The case of a RepRap-based, Lego-built 3D printing-milling machine”. [site] [text]
[2013] “Peer production and desktop manufacturing: The case of the Helix_T wind turbine project”. [site] [text]
Deloitte’s Impact of the Maker Movement: http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/technology/e0b66973a92d6410VgnVCM3000003456f70aRCRD.htm?id=us:2el:3fu:mkrmvmnt:awa:tmt:070914
Fab Academy; http://fabacademy.org
Fab Academy; Past student projects to build upon; http://fabacademy.org/archives/2014/students/index.html
Fab Foundation; http://fabfoundation.org
International makerspace survey results:
Slideshow of results from 100 makerspaces: http://www.slideshare.net/TheMakersNation/fab10-state-of-makerspaces-survey-results-the-makers-nation
Collection of many survey results: http://surveys.peerproduction.net/results/
Surveys on “innovation labs” worldwide (link to PDF at bottom of the page): http://www.bridgespan.org/Blogs/Innovation-Labs/November-2014/Innovation-Lab-Resources.aspx#.VIEk1NaRmhw
Fab Lab overview based on surveys with ~10 labs (mostly in Europe): http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharefing/fab-labs-overview
Research
Innovation labs; a do-it-yourself guide; Unicef, 2012; http://bit.ly/unicefdiy; UNICEF on DIY Open Innovation Hubs: http://www.unicefinnovationlabs.org/?page_id=463
“Open Design Now”, edited by Bas van Abel, Lukas Evers, Roel Klaassen and Peter Troxler. The book is available from BIS publishers http://www.bispublishers.nl/bookpage.php?id=190 and online at http://opendesignnow.org with a number of FabLab-related articles
University of Sussex Working Papers (very comprehensive, academic papers!): “Grassroots digital fabrication and makerspaces: reconfiguring, relocating, and recalibrating innovation?”: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/49317/
“Community-based digital fabrication workshops: a review of the research literature” : http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/49214/
International, social digital research expedition from Betterplace Lab (many blogs in GERMAN): http://www.betterplace-lab.org//projects/lab-around-the-world
Qualitative:
Blog for Camille Bosqué’s thesis on international makerspaces: http://makehackfab.tumblr.com
Global makerspace tour with amazing photography (in progress): http://www.makery.info/2014/06/03/le-tour-du-monde-des-lab-trotteurs/
Global Fab Awards 2014 finalists from makerspaces worldwide: https://www.fab10.org/en/awards
Magazine on the international informal sector: http://mkshft.org/
Film:
Making Living Sharing - a FabLab world tour documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNr1yBIgQCY
Maker - a Documentary on the Maker Movement: http://makerthemovie.com/
Collection of movies on makers and DIY: http://www.makerflix.com/
Seminal short maker videos/lectures: http://www.inventtolearn.com/seminal-videos-for-makers-of-all-ages/
Makers Manual from Intel (focus on US, mainly hobbyists): http://www.slideshare.net/PSFK/makers-manual
Regional: Focus on Development
UN OCHA: 3D printing and humanitarian response (2015), https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/documents/ocha_op14_3d%20printing_online.pdf
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL example from 1979: a report on Ghana’s Appropriate Technology Consultancy Centre: http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/410/02-40.pdf
Critical perspective on how modern makers fail to interact with grassroots artisans: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_fNpWPrOUoxZXZQZEhGeWtScVU&authuser=0
UN report on “innovation facility,” including several makerspace case studies http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/development-impact/2014%20Annual%20Review%20-%20UNDP%20Innovation%20Facility%20v2.9.pdf
Round-table report on invention-based entrepreneurship in Brazil, India, Kenya, and South Africa: www.aspeninstitute.org/sites/default/files/content/docs/pubs/Impact%20Inventing_Web.pdf
3D printing for development
Low cost 3D printing for science, education, and sustainable development (free ebook): http://sdu.ictp.it/3d/book.html
On printing appropriate technologies and recommended tech research: https://www.academia.edu/1507915/3-D_Printing_of_Open_Source_Appropriate_Technologies_for_Self-Directed_Sustainable_Development
USAID’s selection of makerspace-generated projects for development: http://www.usaid.gov/GlobalDevLab/makers4development
World Bank’s brief video on fab labs for development at FAB10 Barcelona: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2014/08/11/maker-movement-impact-and-potential-for-developing-countries (MOSTLY GERMAN, but translating to English and Spanish) Betterplace Lab’s trendreport shows hundreds of examples of using mobile networks and the Internet to achieve more transparent, participatory and more direct engagement with their target groups: http://www.betterplace-lab.org/projects/trendreport
Regional: Africa
Ghana:
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL example from 1979: a report on Ghana’s Appropriate Technology Consultancy Centre: http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/410/02-40.pdf
Excellent and informative manual from 1995 on how to run a makerspace/Intermediate Technology Transfer Unit in Ghana (purchase from Amazon or Practical Action publishers in UK): http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Intermediate_Technology_Transfer_Uni.html?id=M4WnOgAACAAJ
Blog featuring exciting African Makers (qualitative): http://www.afrigadget.com
Kenya’s informal economy and “jua kali” informal/maker clusters: http://analoguedigital.com/makingdo/
World Bank on Knowledge, Technology, and Cluster-Based Growth in Africa (survey of multiple informal/maker clusters): https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/6918
Tech Hubs (exclusively software-focused)
World Bank study on efficacy of tech hubs (2015): http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/pubdocs/publicdoc/2016/1/895381452529897772/WDR16-BP-How-Tech-Hubs-are-helping-to-
Drive-Economic-Growth-in-Africa-Kelly-Firestone.pdf In-depth study from iHub of 7 Sub-Saharan tech hubs: http://community.ihub.co.ke/blogs/13733/comparative-study-on-innovation-hubs-across-africa
iHub’s investigations on rural tech community (ongoing): http://community.ihub.co.ke/blogs/16278/developing-an-ict-hub-model-for-the-rural-tech-community-in-kenya
infoDev’s lessons learned from Mobile Application Laboratories (mLabs) and Mobile Social Networking Hubs (mHubs) in Africa and Asia-- interviews with 240 stakeholders: http://www.infodev.org/mobilebusinessmodels
Sharon Langevin’s thesis on ARO Fab Lab in rural Kenya: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_fNpWPrOUoxUkFINXhIUVUwNk0/edit?usp=sharing
Fab Labs in Ghana and Kenya compared to appropriate tech makerspace in 1980’s (including vocational training): https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_fNpWPrOUoxRmpMWDBtcFU4MUU/edit
Trends in African maker movement-- survey of 7 spaces (poster): https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_fNpWPrOUoxSHEyX2NuVi03UG8/edit?usp=sharing
Business sustainability in African hubs: http://blog.appfrica.com/2014/08/13/what-tech-hubs-are-getting-wrong-in-africa-and-how-to-fix-it/
Awesome blogs on African Makers: http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/ http://whiteafrican.com/ http://blogs.hbr.org/bright-b-simons/
Regional: Arab World
Global Entrepreneurship and Makerspace Initiative (multiple spaces in Middle East): http://www.gemsi.org/category/blog/
Wired article on Iraq’s first hackerspace: http://www.wired.com/2012/09/iraq-hackerspace/
Afghanistan (in DE): http://www.zeit.de/digital/mobil/2010-03/fablab-wlan-bagrami
Crowdfunding for Arab makerspaces, directory of spaces coming soon: http://www.zoomaal.com/challenge/spaces
Regional: Europe
2015 EU policy report “Making Good our Future”: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/socialinnovationeurope/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/SIE%20-%20Making%20Good%20our%20Future%20-%20May%202015.pdf
Policy report on “Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem in Europe”: http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/dsireport.pdf
Italy: http://makersinquiry.org/
UK: Nesta’s report on Young Digital Makers, with many interviews of UK children and interesting gender discrepencies: http://www.nesta.org.uk/sites/default/files/youngdigmakers.pdf
Nesta’s research mapping UK makerspaces (and resultant open data set): http://nesta.org.uk/uk-makerspaces
RSA report on makerspaces and convinient summary: https://www.thersa.org/discover/publications-and-articles/rsa-blogs/2015/11/8-key-take-aways-from-our-new-report-on-makerspaces/#
Fab Lab overview based on surveys with ~10 labs (mostly in Europe): http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharefing/fab-labs-overview
172-page World Bank study on developing innovation infrastructure in Bulgaria through Fab Labs: www.mi.government.bg/files/useruploads/files/innovations/reportinnovationflagships.pdf
Summary report from World Café workshop in Copenhagen on the topic of grassroots fabrication in makerspaces: http://grassrootsinnovations.org/2014/05/11/research-briefing-23-grassroots-fabrication-in-makerspaces-report-from-a-world-cafe/
(IN FRENCH) thesis on French makerspaces: http://appli6.hec.fr/amo/Articles/Fiche/Item/fablabs__makerspaces%C2%A0__entre_nouvelles_formes_d_innovation_et_militantisme_libertaire-276.sls
Regional: Asia (not including Arab World)
UNESCO Bangkok [2016]: http://www.unescobkk.org/index.php?id=16445 infoDev releases a new report detailing lessons learned through its support of Mobile Application Laboratories
(mLabs) and Mobile Social Networking Hubs (mHubs) in Africa and Asia: http://www.infodev.org/mobilebusinessmodels
Japan: ethnographic research on Japanese fab labs http://fablabinternational.org/system/resources/BAhbBlsHOgZmSSImMjAxMy8xMi8wMS8xOC8yNS80NC8yMzMvS3JlYnMucGRmBjoGRVQ/Krebs.pdf
India
National Innovation Foundation for grassroots innovators: http://www.nif.org.in/
Prof Anil Gupta on grassroot innovators: http://www.thealternative.in/business/prof-anil-gupta-grassroot-innovation-alive-well-india-just-look/ http://techpedia.sristi.org/
Concept of “jugaad” or frugal innovation: http://blogs.hbr.org/2010/01/jugaad-a-new-growth-formula-fo/
Critique of “jugaad” as makeshift: http://www.academia.edu/4170842/This_is_not_Jugaad
News article on “Makerspaces Gaining Popularity” in India (2014): http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/emerging-businesses/startups/makerspaces-where-people-come-together-to-design-and-create-new-things-gaining-popularity/articleshow/34522762.cms
Government initiative: http://www.makeinindia.com/
Taiwan
Eli Kao’s Masters thesis (in ENGLISH) on Taipei Hackerspace “Embodied in Practice: The Emergence of a
Multicultural Hackerspace Community”: http://thesis.lib.nccu.edu.tw/cgi-bin/gs32/gsweb.cgi/login?o=dstdcdr&s=id=%22G0984610212%22.&searchmode=basic#XXXX (click far-right tab for download link)
Yahsin Huang’s article “14 Coolest Hackerspaces in Taiwan”: https://medium.com/@yahsinhuangtw/14-coolest-makerspaces-fablabs-and-co-working-spaces-to-explore-in-taiwan-c320ac38124b https://medium.com/@yahsinhuangtw/openlab-taipei-connecting-the-maker-community-611ee54acd9c#.6gnqoleta
China:
(Thanks to Dr. Silvia Lindtner!)
Nesta interviews with 100 makerspaces: http://www.nesta.org.uk/publications/made-china-makerspaces-and-search-mass-innovation
British Council research collaboration (more research soon!): http://creativeconomy.britishcouncil.org/projects/living-research-making-china/
Silvia Lindtner. 2014. “Making Subjectivities: How China's DIY Makers remake Industrial Production, Innovation & the Self.” (2014): http://www.silvialindtner.com/writing/
Silvia Lindtner. 2015. Hacking with Chinese Characteristics: The Promises of the Maker Movement against China's Manufacturing Culture. Science, Technology & Human Values, 1-26. [pdf].
Silvia Lindtner, Anna Greenspan, David Li. 2015. Designed in Shenzhen: Shanzhai Manufacturers and Maker Entrepreneurs. In Proc. of Aarhus Conference on "Critical Alternatives," ACM, Aarhus, Denmark. [pdf]
Sun, Y., Lindtner, S., Ding, X., Lu, T., Gu, N. 2015. Reliving the Past & Making a Harmonious Society Today: A Study of Elderly Electronic Hackers in China. In Proc. of CSCW’15 Conference. [pdf]
Lindtner, S., Hertz, G., and Dourish, P. 2014 Emerging Sites of HCI Innovation: Hackerspaces, Hardware Start-ups & Incubators, Prof. of ACM Conference Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI'14 (Toronto, Canada). [pdf]
Lindtner, S. and Li, David, 2012. Created in China. The Makings of China's Hackerspace Community. In Interactions, XIX.6 November + December 2012, pp. 18. [pdf]
Anna Greenspan, Silvia Lindtner, David Li “Shanzhai: China’s Collaborative Electronics-Design Ecosystem” http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/05/chinas-mass-production-system/370898/
Lindtner, S. and Guimarin, A. “Making! the Other story” http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2014/04/29/making-the-other-story/
Lindtner, S. This Manufacturing Hub is also becoming the center for Chinese creativity: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/06/shenzhen_maker_faire_manufacturing_hub_is_also_home_to_the_chinese_diy_movement.html
News article on China makerspaces (2013): http://selamtamagazine.com/stories/made-china-20
Mitch Altman on Chinese makerspaces (2015): http://www.makery.info/2015/03/24/le-reveil-de-la-chine-et-ses-hackerspaces-par-mitch-altman/?lang=en
Shenzhen Maker Map by Seeed Studio (2013): http://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2013/09/03/shenzhen-map-for-makers/
Regional: North America
Makers Manual from Intel (focus on US, mainly hobbyists): http://www.slideshare.net/PSFK/makers-manual
Deloitte: Impacts of the Maker Movement http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/technology/e0b66973a92d6410VgnVCM3000003456f70aRCRD.htm?id=us:2el:3fu:mkrmvmnt:awa:tmt:070914
White House Maker initiatives (following White House Maker Faire): http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/18/fact-sheet-president-obama-host-first-ever-white-house-maker-faire
The stuff Jeff Ginger and colleagues are doing with Mini Labs http://cucfablab.org/sites/cucfablab.org/files/CUCFL%20F8%202012%20Submission%2008.14.2012.pdf
Bloomberg on accessibility of tools for innovation and TechShop: http://www.bloomberg.com/video/-the-brink-episode-1-the-makers-4-22-6TzWD6QNRHO6~ztdC8Hk4Q.html
ASEE academic paper-- interviews with US makers on the “maker ethos” (2014): http://www.asee.org/public/conferences/32/papers/10205/download
US Fab Lab Network report from 2012: http://usfln.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/US-Fab-Lab-FINAL-Report-3-6-12-PDF.pdf
USA Maker Cities report: http://www.nlc.org/find-city-solutions/city-solutions-and-applied-research/urban-development/the-maker-movement
Regional: Latin America
Documentos en español: http://hacedores.com/documentos/
I3D es la primera revista en español especializada en Impresión 3D (ESPAÑOL): http://i3drevista.com/ y http://issuu.com/impresiontresde
Problems and possibilities of Fab Lab implementation in Latin America: http://fablabinternational.org/system/resources/BAhbBlsHOgZmSSIvMjAxMy8xMi8wMS8xOC8yOS8wNS82NjcvSGVycmVyYV9KdWFyZXoucGRmBjoGRVQ/Herrera-Juarez.pdf
Incorporating unasked-for laptops (OLPC) into indigenous language activism in Peru: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-5-shared-machine-shops/peer-reviewed-articles/beyond-technological-fundamentalism-peruvian-hack-labs-and-inter-technological-education/
Brazil:
The State of the Maker Movement in Brazil: http://www.slideshare.net/mlemos/the-state-of-the-maker-movement-in-brazil-sxsw-2015 http://makers.net.br/
Trinidad:
Improving [traditional wire bending practices] through computation and digital technology: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/84166
Regional: Oceania
Deloitte’s Impacts of the Australian Maker Movement: http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Australia/Local%20Assets/Documents/news-research/Deloitte_Maker_Movement_29May2014.pdf
Environmental Sustainability
Cindy Kohtala. MAKING SUSTAINABILITY: How Fab Labs Address Environmental Issues: https://shop.aalto.fi/media/attachments/f8dd3/Kohtala.pdf (Aalto University publication series, DOCTORAL DISSERTATION 2016)
Making things in Fab Labs: a case study on sustainability and co-creation: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14626268.2015.1135809?journalCode=ndcr20& [PAYWALL] http://p2pfoundation.net/Dominic_Muren_on_the_Ecological_Advantages_of_Open_Hardware_Manufacturing http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/03/how-sustainable-is-digital-fabrication.html http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14606925.2016.1085213 Attachment, Durability and the Environmental
Impact of Digital DIY by Irene Maldini, The Design Journal and 3D printing: Boon or Bane? https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/OLSON_FORUM_NOV-DEC_2013-1.pdf
Uniquely Located Makerspaces
Prison makerspace in USA: https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/08/25/how-a-makerspace-in-juvenile-hall-helps-young-people-see-their-value/
Hospital makerspace network: http://www.makerhealth.co/
Conference Proceedings and Videos
FAB10 Symposium 2014: https://www.fab10.org/en/home#symposium videos: http://y2u.be/tpoiJx5SDu8
Fab10 Research Papers 2014: coming up soon
O’Reilly Solid conference 2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL055Epbe6d5YmeYhptpHaCjgntCAkeihC
Makercon Conferences; http://makercon.com
MakerCon Bay Area 2014: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwhkA66li5vCKd7XNwpV42-zgBf9S3vP_
FabLearn 2013: http://fablearn.stanford.edu/2013/program/
Observe Hack Make 2013 (hacker camping conference): http://bofh.nikhef.nl/events/OHM/video/
FabFuse 2012: http://2012.fabfuse.org
FabFuse 2013: http://2013.fabfuse.org
FabLabCon Aachen 2013: http://hci.rwth-aachen.de/fablabcon2013
Fab9 research papers: http://www.fablabinternational.org/fab-lab-research/proceedings-of-the-fab-9-research-stream
Long Now Foundation talks (look under “Globalization” for some on maker movement): http://longnow.org/
ThingsCon (http://thingscon.com) 2014 & 2015 talks: https://www.youtube.com/user/thingscon
Maker Assembly (series of conferences encouraging critical discussion about maker culture) London 2015 edition, talks & slides: http://makerassembly.org/event/va-london-october-2015/
Innovative Educational Resources
see original google doc
Cities and Urbanisation; Smart/Fab Cities
Collaborative communities in the city: From policies for to policies through third places? [2016]: https://collaborativespacesstudy.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/rgcs-white-paper-alpha-version.pdf
Fab City Whitepaper: http://fab.city/whitepaper.pdf
Tomas Diez (Fab Lab Barcelona) on Fab Cities: http://www.open-electronics.org/global-transitions-fab-labs-and-fab-cities-interview-with-tomas-diez/
Bruce Sterling on danger of Internet of Things (FAB10 talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNaoMkY8qY
Appropriate / Grassroot Technology:
Excellent and lengthy STEPS Centre blogpost on engagement with grassroots innovators from the Appropriate Tech movement to today: https://medium.com/hidden-sustainability/float-like-a-fab-lab-sting-like-a-honey-bee-4f9eab3b70c1#.7ia4c81j5
International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at (for/from/with) Grassroots: http://www.iccig.org/
BOOK by Prof Anil Gupta-- Grassroots Innovation: Minds On The Margin Are Not Marginal Minds [2016]: https://www.amazon.com/Grassroots-Innovation-Minds-Margin-Marginal/dp/8184005873/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468514000&sr=1-1&keywords=anil+gupta+grassroots
Wiki collaboration platform: http://appropedia.org/
List of grassroot inventions from India: http://techpedia.in and http://nif.org.in/tech_catalogue.php https://www.engineeringforchange.org/home
GIANT collection of appro tech pdfs: http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM
Whole Earth Catalogue, a proto-internet from 1960s: http://www.wholeearth.com/index.php
Practical Action publishing house: http://developmentbookshop.com/
Coming soon? http://appromonde.launchrock.com/
Open Source Ecology: http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set
IDIN (MIT, Olin College, KNUST, etc) rural design thinking workshops: http://www.idin.org/resource-library
A couple more: http://www.knowledge-commons.de/en/learning-by-sharing/1212-2/
Fab Labs for Appropriate Tech (from Vigyan Ashram, India): https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B_Jk2xLqAXjcfjBfYzZHX1pJLVdBR09VaWJGZWVkSUs0MlR4WXloQkwtNXoyQTd0S2N6QXc&usp=sharing
Decades of excellent resources from http://practicalaction.org
More excellent resources from http://engineeringforchange.org/
Great article on decline of Appropriate Tech movement in UK in 1980s: http://peerproduction.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/adrian-smith-technology-networks-for-socially-useful-production.pdf
Biohacking / DIY Synthetic Biology
http://diybio.org/ http://hackteria.org/ http://biohackingsafari.com/
Sweet conference in NY, USA: http://www.biofabricate.co/about/
Conference at Counter Culture Labs in September - http://biohacktheplanet.com Build your own biology lab: http://teklalabs.org/ (haven’t updated recently, but they still host an excellent collection of Instructables)
Biohackers of the world, unite; Technology Quarterly; The Economist; http://www.economist.com/printedition/2014-09-06
East Meets West Bookstore (EMW)’s “The Grotto”: a new biohackerspace in Central Sq, Cambridge, MA created in 2015 during the class How to Grow Almost Anything (HTGAA)