The article reflects on importance of spreading coworking practices with an exception of
improvement in socio economic conditions of workers in the knowledge economy. Topics …

DIY, hacking, and craft have recently drawn attention in HCI and CSCW, largely as a
collaborative and creative hobbyist practice. We shift the focus from the recreational …

HCI research has both endorsed" making" for its innovation and democratization capacity
and critiqued its underlying technosolutionism, ie, the idea that technology provides …

In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible
and ubiquitous computing into products. Drawing on long-term multi-sited ethnographic …

Since the 1980s there has been extraordinary growth and visibility of design throughout
most of the world. This is connected to fundamental developments in capitalism. This period …

Coworking spaces have been affirmed in recent years as a mainstream,'neo-
corporate'model of flexible work in post-recession, urban knowledge economies. However …

This article discusses the visions and practices of DIY (do-it-yourself) maker culture in China.
It analyses how the ideals held by DIY makers, such as openness, peer production, and …

This article introduces and discusses the role of bespoke code in Wikipedia, which is code
that runs alongside a platform or system, rather than being integrated into server-side …

During the last decade, different values, tools and practices promoted by maker culture have
been adopted in formal educational settings with the aim of reinvigorating Science …

This paper tells a story of DIY (do it yourself) making that does not neatly fit more familiar
narratives of making: as individual empowerment, as a democratizing force, and as …