By organizing peer-to-peer exchanges and promoting access over ownership, the sharing
economy is transforming a great variety of sectors. Enjoying fast growth, the sharing …

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 …

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

Digital fabrication laboratories (such as Fab Labs) are a global initiative of workshops that
offer open access to technologies to produce objects from beginning idea to final production …

In a complex and uncertain economy, the processes of creativity and innovation have
become increasingly more heterogeneous, distributed and pervasive. The exploration of …

This paper provides some insights into the way a fabrication laboratory (FabLab) increases
local entrepreneurial capabilities by offering a new and collective way to co-shape novelties …

The impacts of socio-technical future-making on the governance of innovation processes are
increasingly important in sociological STS research and technology assessment (TA) …

Maker spaces and maker activities offering access to low-cost digital fabrication equipment
are rapidly proliferating, evolving phenomena at the interface of lay and professional design …

Les laboratoires de fabrication numérique sont en plein essor. Leur réalité est diverse et les
questions de performance et de la nature de leur encastrement socio-économique dans des …