Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

Purpose Corporates have recently invested in company-owned makerspaces with the goal
to skim the potential of makerspaces as innovation driver. The purpose of this paper is to …

Enabled by ICTs and digital fabrication tools such as 3D printing, and facilitated by shared
workspaces such as makerspaces and FabLabs, digital innovation and fabrication networks …

Makerspaces public workshops where makers can share tools and knowledge are a
growing resource for amateurs and professionals alike. While the role of makerspaces in …

Communities of making have been at the center of attention in popular, business, political,
and academic research circles in recent years. In HCI, they seem to carry the promise of new …

This paper explores the relation between the notion of “communities” and the emergence of
new spatial settings for innovation and creativity that we subsume under the term 'open …

Inviting children to adopt a Protagonist role regarding technology has recently become
advocated. Such a role embraces the original political participatory design (PD) agenda and …

Distributed manufacturing is rapidly proliferating to citizen level via the use of digital
fabrication equipment, especially in dedicated “makerspaces”. The sustainability benefits of …

Co-working spaces of different types are emerging as new economic and social
intermediaries in the contemporary process of urban regeneration and urban economic …

Highlights•People do not only purchase and use products; they design, appropriate and
innovate.•Research on active users in different fields highlight different characteristics.•We …