A new creative landscape

Social spaces for making, learning, and sharing

Stuart Gannes Kipp Bradford

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Rise of learning spaces…

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Tinkering places…

Mobile Fab LabTech Shop Menlo Park

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Global Fab Lab footprint

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New organizations

Noisebridge, San Francisco

NYC Resistors

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Urban hackerspaces

•23b Shop•757 WHQ•ACTLab•BlogHouse•Bucketworks•Carrboro Creative Coworking•Cowtown Computer Congress•DC401•Denhac DetroitWeb.net•Eastside Hackerspace•Eyebeam•GrendelVan•HACKMIAMI

•HTINK•Pumping Station: One•SD to be named later•Saturday House•Southern Arizona Tech Lab•Stratolab•TechStars•Texarkana Institute of Technology •The Axis of Awesome•The Hacker Foundation•The Hacktory•The Sandbox•Willoughby and Baltic•W2 Hackers http://hackerspace.org

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Fab Foundation: Building the social network

• Support, knit together Fab Labs– Track projects, initiatives– Channel for Fab

Academy

• Organize interactions– Conferences– Events– Social Network

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Connecting Makers to Makers

Maker Faire in Silicon Valley

Burning man from space