A Marriage of Makers, Mutual Development in Practice

Reflecting on the experiences of co-creating Nubialin, and instigating a second Felucca Festival to further empower the community and deepen connections it’s difficult to know where to start the documentation process. The outputs were numerous as was the learning. I shall attempt to put some structure to the overwhelming quantity of insights and results of the organic processes used […]

Experiments in Autonomy: Reflections on The Makerplatz

Photo: Kay Strasser One could view everything in our world as a collection of prototypes available to be changed. In these interesting times, we have all the tools in the world, all that is needed is a conversation to start the (re)making. Welcome to Berlin’s Makerplatz. By Jay Cousins Our dominant cultural paradigm has been, […]

Chaordinators Toolbox: The Planning Party (Human Rights MakerLab case study)

The MakerLab is an autonomous event, it’s a co-created action. This autonomy functions best within a frame (note: I still need to write the post on frame design), and has to begin somewhere. The Planning Party marks the beginning of opening the process – an event catalyst to begin actions, inspire and create opportunities for […]