Multidisciplinary research into the role of CAPS in the Maker Movement
About MAKE-IT • January 2016 – December 2017 • Partner Organizations:
From bits to atoms
About MAKE-IT
• Case studies of ten maker initiatives • Innovation Action Research
What is the role of CAPS in the maker movement? • Collaborative technologies • Sensor networks: becoming more aware of the environment and our effect on it • Making data comprehensible • Leading to: • • • •
Realization that a different production paradigm is possible Change towards responsible behaviour Citizen participation, creativity and empowerment Political / economic change?
Will the Maker Movement succeed where the Arts and Crafts movement failed? • Evgeny Morozov: The Arts and Crafts movement failed
• Too much time on “rag-rugs, baskets, and . . . exhibitions of work chiefly by amateurs” • No political dimension demanding equality • Spirit of labor reform became simply D.I.Y. tinkering
• We observe anti-establishment culture in the Maker Movement (parallels with anti-EU Sentiment and Brexit)
• Basis is sharing • Rejection of neo-liberal capitalism: Trickle-down turns out to be trickle-up • E.g. FabLab Zagreb wants to move away from university
• Will Makers push for political and legal reforms?
• Transparency and decentralization of power (and data) • Diametrically opposite to TTIP