[hackerspaces] Respect the Past, Examine the Present, Build the Future

[Nick Farr (HacDC)]

I really like this "Hackerspaces throughout History" theme!

Does anyone here want to coordinate a blog entry, or perhaps pick up a day
of the week to blog about Hackerspaces through History?  It seems like we've
got enough material here for quite a good run!

Nick Farr / http://nickfarr.org
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 14:38, Eric Gerlach <
eric+hackerspaces-discuss at gerlach.ca<eric%2Bhackerspaces-discuss at gerlach.ca>
> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:03:20AM -0400, Leigh Honeywell wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:15:18AM -0400, Far McKon wrote:
> > > > not to forget: a wide array of collectively owned
> > > > workshops, tool shops and spaces for making that
> > > > emerged in the 1970s as part of new
> > > > countercultural topologies (squat houses,
> > > > communes and farming cooperatives etc.) ... as
> > > > mentioned in "hacking the spaces".
> > >
> > > Hear Hear. I second johannes.
> > >
> > > I got into hakcersapces through the housing/tool cooperative(s)
> > > movement.  I'm thinking of making a talk on how hackerspaces tie into
> > > other collaborative spaces organizations, from condo's to food
> > > cooperatives, for a talk I'm giving in January.  IF anyone has input,
> > > let me know.
> > >
> > > hack on,
> > > - Far McKon
> >
> > Another set of analogous spaces: the feminist women's health collectives
> > of the 70's.  While they came out of a political movement, they were
> > focused on providing services and self-education.
> >
> > At least that's what immediately came to mind for me :)
>
> Gus here at KwartzLab came up with some really old hackerspaces.
>
> The first one:  The Royal Society of London.  It was a bunch of natural
> philosophers who got together to make experiments and hack on nature!
>
> Then, the Mechanics Institutes around the turn of the 20th century.
> They were originally places where people could go to learn and practise
> trades and build things.
>
> I should get a copy of the presentation he did.  It was really cool.
>
> Hackerspaces are older than you think!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric
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