Garnet,
I completely agree with your assessment:
"...there are a lot of other people that deserve our attention that have
been totally neglected. The well-known folks had enough coverage already..."
But, when we continue to rehash the 'greats,' how do we draw attention to,
identify, the 'new'
Adrian,
I definitely agree that criticality should be included at all levels/ages
of tech education; I only specifically addressed future generations because
I find that we are more likely to overlook that aspect when teaching young
people. Perhaps this is because we erroneously assume that they
Sam - it's a self-description that works well for people who find
themselves doing several of those things, and don't want to be
pigeonholed into doing just one.
Garnet makes the same mistake, I think:
" Language typically expands into a rich lexicon of terms when a field
grows, and the
Yeah - the diversity in Make thing is extensive and a long-running issue. I
did a 10 zine series called "Critical Making" (
http://conceptlab.com/criticalmaking/) in 2012, with one whole issue
dedicated to criticizing the diversity of Make. See the following:
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To the extant that makerism(!) was a movement, it is under-appreciated that
the widespread availability of 3d printers happened after the patents held
by Stratasys (parent of Makerbot) on Fusion Deposit Modeling expired in
2009, and the price of 3d printers plummeted from $10,000 to a little more
