The Maker culture embraces a hands-on approach to doing things. Learning through doing, then sharing via the internet, in person, fairs and festivals and spaces which we call Makerspaces.
There's even a playbook. How to set up your Makerspace.
From the Makerspace Playbook:
"Makerspaces come in all shapes and sizes, but they all serve as a gathering point for tools, projects, mentors and expertise. A collection of tools does not define a Makerspace. Rather, we define it by what it enables: making."
Makerspaces are little treasures that are manifestations of the maker or makers that work in that space. No two makerspaces can truly be exactly alike.
Today I begin a progressive series on Makerspaces near you, the things they make, the skills they enable, the Makers within and the makers they serve (ages, etc).
And an interpretation: Although there are many locations that could be categorized as Makerspaces, I am constraining this series to those spaces that identify with the Maker culture. One of the requirements is that either a/ the space is registered as a Makerspace or Young Makers site or b/ that there be at least one monthly period of open making, be it one hour or all month long - an opportunity to be present with tools, space and knowledge - at no required cost.
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