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- Title
Making Maker Space: An exploration of lively things, urban placemaking and organisation.
- Authors
Schoneboom, Abigail
- Abstract
This visual ethnographic study, which was conducted at Newcastle upon Tyne's Maker Space, explores the organisational and placemaking processes that emerge from a passion for making things. Placing a particular emphasis on this lively engagement, it examines how makers get beneath the surface of everyday objects and perceive their potential for transformation. Tracing the intimacy that makers develop with materials and the surrounding sense of social vitality and possibility that this gives rise to, the study examines how place and organisation are continually renegotiated and given new meaning. The analysis contributes to the literature on sustainable ways of organizing that emerge from the interstices of everyday life and adds to a growing literature on space and organization. It infuses the metaphor of 'parkour organisation' (where parkour is conceived as a disruptive and sensual mind-body engagement with urban space) with a material sensibility drawn from scholarship on lively materials (a fluid conception of things as materials in movement) and ecological sustainability. The organisation that emerges from the needs of makers to engage in a fluid conversation with materials is posited as a sometimes tense yet fruitful negotiation that characterises Maker Space as vibrant and distinctly alive. This process is evaluated as in keeping with approaches to urban development that disrupt 'non-place', promoting critical awareness of one's surroundings, and of civic life, through sensual, richly textured engagement.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABILITY; EVERYDAY life; SOCIAL structure; URBAN growth; CIVIC associations
- Publication
Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization, 2018, Vol 18, Issue 4, p709
- ISSN
2052-1499
- Publication type
Article