Participatory Democratic Production: In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace

Robyn M. Tierney

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In the Conception and Organization of a Makerspace

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Seiten:: 29–45

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004448490_003

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Abstract

This chapter explores how a community makerspace is being conceived and organized as a nonprofit that takes up cooperative aims for transformative education by putting the mode of production back into the hands of the community. Drawing upon a framework of cooperative worker self-direction, I consider how maker production becomes more democratic, in participatory terms, when makers collectively make decisions on the activities, tools, technologies, partnerships, and class/workshop offerings of makerspaces. I focus on one makerspace, Cruces Creatives, located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a Southwestern city on the border between the United States and Mexico. As an educational researcher in Rhetoric and Professional Communication, my goal is to investigate the participatory agency that Cruces Creatives advances through its conception and organization as a democratic space that spurs economic and artistic growth, while promoting environmental responsibility through creative recycling, upcycling, and both high-tech (3-D printing, laser cutting, and scanners) and low-tech (woodworking equipment) tool sharing. Drawing upon the case of Cruces Creatives, I argue that it is how a workspace is conceived and organized, and how and to what ends its technologies are used and shared, that makes it truly democratic in participatory terms, rather than its profitability and status as a for-profit enterprise or not-for-profit organization. I conclude that Cruces Creatives with its focus on participatory labor and innovative technology sharing is transforming education in a Web 2.0 era where what it means to be a maker/producer, innovator, and activist for social change is shifting in dynamic ways.

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Education for Democracy 2.0

Changing Frames of Media Literacy

Reihe: Critical Media Literacies Series, Band: 6

ISBN:: 9789004448490

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 23 Dec 2020

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Front Matter

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Introduction The Struggle over Meaning in a World in Crisis

Part 1 Engaging the Community

Chapter 2 Participatory Democratic Production

Chapter 3 Video Production and Global Civic Education

Chapter 4 Media Education for the Inclusion of At-Risk Youth

Chapter 5 Disability Representation in Digital Media in Zimbabwe

Chapter 6 Merging Media and Information Literacy and Human Rights Education

Part 2 Framing Media Literacy

Chapter 7 The Critical Mindset in Times of Distrust

Chapter 8 Buying into Participatory Culture?

Chapter 9 Gaming Education

Chapter 10 Not without Us

Chapter 11 Is It All Just Emojis and LOL

Chapter 12 The Social Media Landscape

Part 3 Transforming the Classroom

Chapter 13 Critical Pedagogy for the Media Generation

Chapter 14 Post-Truth Explorers

Chapter 15 Nine Key Insights

Chapter 16 Building Digital Bridges to Our Public Sphere

Chapter 17 Learning Democracy by Doing Wikiversity

Chapter 18 Multiliteracies and the Critical Thinker

Postscript Bubbles and Baubles

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