[Open Design + Hardware] Journal of Peer Production #5: Shared Machine Shops

[Kat Braybrooke]

Very interesting insights below, especially around the following
assumptions:

 * Shared Machine Shops are not new.
 * Fab Labs are not about technology.
 * Sharing is not happening.
 * Hackerspaces are not open.
 * Technology is not neutral.
 * Hackerspaces are not solving problems.
 * Fab Labs are not the seeds of a revolution.

Once people have given the pieces a read, I'd love to discuss more. While I
can't say I agree with all of the assertions, they certainly come at a
time-salient moment.

- Kat

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Kat Braybrooke | Content and Curation Lead
Mozilla | Hive Learning Networks | @codekat <https://twitter.com/codekat>

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===> Journal of Peer Production #5: Shared Machine Shops -- out now! <===

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 * Editing:

     + Maxigas
         Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
     + Peter Troxler
         International Fab Lab Association
         Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences

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Despite the marketing clangour of the “maker movement”, shared machine
shops are
currently “fringe phenomena” since they play a minor role in the production
of
wealth, knowledge, political consensus and the social organisation of life.
Interestingly, however, they also prominently share the core transformations
experienced in contemporary capitalism.  The convergence of work, labour and
other aspects of life -- the rapid development of algorithmically driven
technical systems and their intensifying role in social organisation -- the
practical and legitimation crisis of institutions, echoed by renewed
attempts at
self-organisation.

Each article in this special issue addresses a received truth which
circulates
unreflected amongst both academics analysing these phenomena and
practitioners
engaged in the respective scenes. Questioning such myths based on empirical
research founded on a rigorous theoretical framework is what a journal such
as
the Journal of Peer Production can contribute to both academic and activist
discourses. Shared machine shops have been around for at least a decade or
so,
which makes for a good time to evaluate how they live up to their
self-professed
social missions.

Here is an executive summary:

 * Shared Machine Shops are not new.
 * Fab Labs are not about technology.
 * Sharing is not happening.
 * Hackerspaces are not open.
 * Technology is not neutral.
 * Hackerspaces are not solving problems.
 * Fab Labs are not the seeds of a revolution.

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# T A B L E  O F  C O N T E N T S |
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#
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# EDITORIAL SECTION |
#-------------------+
#
# * We Now have the Means of Production, but Where is my Revolution?
#     by maxigas and Peter Troxler
#
# * Digitally-Operated Atoms vs. Bits of Rhetoric
#     by Ursula Gastfall, Thomas Fourmond, Jean-Baptiste Labrune and Peter
Troxler
#
# * Critical Notions of Technology: Promises of Empowerment in Shared
Machine Shops
#     by Susana Nascimento
#
# * Distributed and Open Creation Platforms as Key Enablers for Smarter
Cities
#     by Tomas Diez
#
# * Fab Labs Forked: A Grassroots Insurgency inside the Next Industrial
Revolution
#     by Peter Troxler
#
# * Cultural Stratigraphy: A Rift between Shared Machine Shops
#     by maxigas
#
#----------------------+
# PEER REVIEWED PAPERS |
#----------------------+
#
# * Technology Networks for socially useful production
#     by Adrian Smith
#
# * The Story of MIT-Fablab Norway: Community Embedding of Peer Production
#     by Cindy Kohtala and Camille Bosqué
#
# * Sharing is Sparing: Open Knowledge Sharing in Fab Labs
#     by Patricia Wolf, Peter Troxler, Pierre-Yves Kocher, Julie Harboe &
Urs Gaudenz
#
# * Feminist Hackerspaces: The Synthesis of Feminist and Hacker Cultures
#     by Sophie Toupin
#
# * Beyond Technological Fundamentalism: Peruvian Hack Labs
#     and “Inter-technological” Education
#      by Anita Say Chan [html] [pdf]
#
# * Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities
#      by Austin Toombs, Shaowen Bardzell, and Jeffrey Bardzell
#
# * Shared Machine Shops as Real-life Laboratories
#      by Sascha Dickel, Jan-Peter Ferdinand, and Ulrich Petschow
#
# ... Respect for all the contributors, peer reviewers, and readers! ...
#
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