Of Makerspaces and Hacklabs: Emergence, Experiment and Ontological Theatre at the Edinburgh Hacklab, Scotland.

This paper commences a geographical engagement with makerspaces, hacklabs, and other workshop spaces which form part of a broader ‘maker movement’. It examines the arts of inquiry and experimentation found at one such site, drawing on ethnographic field work at the Edinburgh Hacklab, and makes conne...

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Publicado en:Scottish Geographical Journal Vol. 133; no. 2; pp. 130 - 155
Autor principal: Smith, Thomas S.J.
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jun2017
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