Abstract The Maker Movement is a rapidly moving development towards non-traditional
education through hands-on creation of technological artifacts, indicating tremendous …

An academic makerspace, home to tools and people dedicated to facilitating and inspiring a
making culture, is characterized by openness, creativity, learning, design, and community …

This paper draws from a critical examination of media and literature surrounding the maker
movement, and interviews with 10 women engaged in maker activities. It aims to explore the …

The Maker Movement has been successful in refocusing attention on the value of hand
work, but heritage craft practices remain noticeably absent. We argue that combining …

This paper presents findings from a collective case study focusing on the efforts of a
grassroots team of seven pioneering women: teachers, IT consultants, and tech enthusiasts …

This dissertation investigates how girls develop new affinities towards and capabilities in
media and technology. Thirty co-researchers, girls aged 10 to 13, were recruited into 101 …

With the rise of popularity in hacker/makerspaces has come an old reproduction of inequality
at the sites of innovation and education in which women, people of color, middle-aged and …

Making is a playful exploration of tools and materials to design personally meaningful
artifacts, providing a particularly impactful entry point for traditionally underrepresented …

Fiber craft practices such as knitting, crochet, quilting, embroidery, and weaving have been
used as experimental, hands-on methods for queer and trans feminist knowledge …

Some have hailed the emergence of maker spaces as an opportunity to broaden
participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math …