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A hackerspace is a community-operated, often not-for-profit workspace where people with common interests, such as computers, machining, technology, science, digital art, or electronic art, can meet, socialize, and collaborate. Hackerspaces are comparable to other community-operated spaces with similar aims and structures, such as Fab Labs, men's sheds, and some commercial makerspaces. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HackerspaceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: From a laboratory bench for studying the basics of Computer networks to a hackerspace for inventors and a competitive cyber training groundInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: HackerspacesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspaceCited 51 times
- Go sideways: Maker cultureA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Library makerspaceA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A community-operated workspace where people with common interests, often in computers, machining, science, and digital or electronic art, can meet to socialize and collaborate on projects.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Legacies of craft and the centrality of failure in a mother-operated hackerspace
Hackerspace Network: Prefiguring Technopolitical Futures?
Feminist Hackerspace as a Place of Infrastructure Production
The Weight of Curious Space: Rhetorical Events, Hackerspace, and Emergent Multimodal Assessment
Hackerspace movement: a study of the Brazilian experience
THREE PILLARS FOR KNOWLEDGE CREATION IN HACKERSPACE
Cultural Analysis of Startup Entrepreneurship in Russia: A Case Study of a Moscow Hackerspace
Radical hospitality in a Berlin hackerspace
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕HackerspacesSarah R. Davies · 2017
MakerspacesSamantha Roslund · 2013
3D Printing Cultures, Politics and HackerspacesLeandros Savvides · 2021
Hack thisJohn Baichtal · 2011- 📕Feminist hackerspacesAmy Burek, Emily Alden Foster · 2015
Hackerspaces: Making the Maker MovementSarah R. Davies · 2017
From Russia with codeUniversity Press Duke · 2019
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
- Maker culture The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of…
- Library makerspace A library makerspace, also known as a hackerspace or hacklab, is an area and/or service that offers library patrons an opportunity to create intellectual…
- Hacking the Spaces Hacking the Spaces is a 2009 essay by Austrian artist and cultural theorist Johannes Grenzfurthner and German writer Frank Apunkt Schneider [de], published…
- Maker education Maker education (a term coined by Dale Dougherty in 2013) closely associated with STEM learning, is an approach to problem-based and project-based learning…
- Metalab The Metalab is a hackerspace in Vienna's central first district. Founded in 2006, it is a meeting place of the Viennese tech community, hosting events…
- Fab lab A fab lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication. A fab lab is typically equipped with an array of…
- Open Works Open Works is a 34,000 square feet "incubator for Baltimore's creative economy." It houses shared wood, metal, and digital fabrication, textiles, and electronic…
- FamiLAB FamiLAB is a makerspace in Longwood, Florida. It is a member-run organization that provides a shared workspace, tools, and equipment for individuals engaged…