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‘Pop-up’ Maker-spaces: Catalysts for Creative Participatory Culture

Authors:
Sumit Pandey
Swati Srivastava

Keywords: Participatory Culture; Collaborative Spaces; Creative Engagement; Co-operation; Awareness; Motivation; Digital Engagement

Abstract:
The changing technology landscape has reshaped the relationship between producers and consumers and has signaled a shift towards more collaborative and social cultural forms. These changing cultural practices are referred to as ‘Participatory Culture’. While the Internet offers an always on and readily accessible mode of engagement and involvement within participatory culture, these platforms need to be complemented with collaborative and creative participation in physical spaces for sustained engagement in real world cultural activities. Recent research on maker cultures and the growth of maker-spaces offers very relevant lessons in this regard. Using this research as a point of departure, we propose a decentralized and semi-organized form of maker-spaces called ‘pop-up’ maker-spaces that could act as triggers to create engagement within communities towards creative and collaborative production and informal knowledge sharing. Further, we describe three workshops that were setup as ‘pop-up’ maker-space environments as a part of a case study to discuss our findings and insights. While all the workshops had a pre-defined thematic area, the final outcomes were very different and represented differing conceptual and material explorations conducted by the participants.

Pages: 50 to 56

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: April 24, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4138

ISBN: 978-1-61208-468-8

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from April 24, 2016 to April 28, 2016