[hackerspaces] Fwd: [Air-L] CFP for 4S Panel: From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture

[Jodi Schneider]

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From: Laura Forlano <lef45 at columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 11:56 AM
Subject: [Air-L] CFP for 4S Panel: From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture
& Politics of Professionalized Maker Culture
To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>


Apologies for x-posting.

4S Meeting in San Diego, Oct 9-12, 2013.
>From Hobby to Science Work: The Culture & Politics of Professionalized
Maker Culture

Current Participants: Carl DiSalvo, Laura Forlano, Silvia Lindtner, Thomas
Lodato

Hacker/maker culture is often associated with a DIY (do it yourself) ethos
and Internet counterculture — in distinction from professionalized fields
such as design, scientific research, or engineering. However, in recent
years, hacker cultures and professionalized fields have been brought
together through the efforts such as hackerspaces, which function as
collocated laboratories for citizen science engagements, new product
development, or batch-manufacturing.  Events such as hackathons, start-up
weekends, and accelerators allow DIY makers to move beyond a hobbyist
activity and transform ideas into tangible products by exploiting an
existing infrastructure of venture capital funding, corporate support and
manufacturing labor. In addition to corporations, state organizations such
as DARPA and governments in Asia have begun participate in these
transformations in order to provide financial support for maker and DIY
efforts with the goal of triggering new forms of innovation for their
nations. The purpose of this panel is to bring together research that
examines the conditions and issues of the transformation of hacker/maker
culture from DIY endeavors to increasingly professionalized and purportedly
economically-viable activities, and engages with the culture and politics
of such professionalization process of the hobbyist Maker movement. We will
examine how DIY maker production appropriates and remakes dominant
narratives of creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship to render and
for what purposes. We ask questions such as: Who is excluded and how do
local manifestations of the broader movement vary? How can analytical and
methodological tools from STS inform the study of interdisciplinary maker
worlds that aspire to bring together science, technology and society in new
ways? What digital and other material artifacts are produced along the way,
where and how do they travel, and which populations are implicated in their
production? We envision this panel will contribute to ongoing concerns in
Digital STS and innovation studies.

We are soliciting participation in this panel (or possibly, a series of
panels). If you are interested in contributing please send an email with a
brief paper description to cdisalvo at gatech.edu by March 1st.


Laura Forlano, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Design
Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology

Visiting Scholar
Program in Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(646) 245-5388 (c)
http://lauraforlano.org
http://designingorganizations.org





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