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 …

Many public libraries provide makerspace services, where people can share tools and
knowledge to create tangible items, yet the audience for these spaces is sometimes …

This paper details the design and evaluation of Being the Machine, a portable digital
fabrication system that places digital fabrication activity outside of the traditional fab lab …

Social computing-or computing in a social context-has largely concerned itself with
understanding social interaction among and between people. This paper asserts that …

This is an open access book that covers the complete set of experiences and results of the
FemTech. dk research which we have had conducted between 2016-2021–from initiate idea …

Hacking and making practices, participants, spaces, and communities have been of
increasing interest to a range of fields that study the interactions between people and …

This paper applies the theoretical lens of infrastructure to study hacking practices that take
issue with large-scale communication networks. The paper analyzes a series of hacks …

Maker culture is on the rise in healthcare with the adoption of consumer-grade fabrication
technologies. However, little is known about the activities and resources involved in …

Community+ Culture features practitioner perspectives on designing technologies for and
with communities. We highlight compelling projects and provocative points of view that …

In recent years makerspaces have gained traction as an environment where makers and
tinkerers can freely create artefacts with digital fabrication tools. They are particularly suited …