Crafting code: Gender, coding and spatial hybridity in the events of PyLadies Dublin

Social justice and out‐of‐school science learning: Exploring equity in science television, science clubs and maker spaces

“…In response, feminists and people from minority ethnic backgrounds have established their own makerspaces (Maalsen & Perng, ; Toupin, ). Such clubs aim to provide safe, welcoming spaces for women and/or people from minority ethnic backgrounds through providing tailored support and explicitly valuing their skills and traditions, integrating these into the clubs (Rosner, ).…”

“…For instance, a U.S. hackerspace in Berkeley, California, is run for mothers, by mothers, combining tech, crafts, workshop sessions, alongside the all important childcare that underpins whether participation is possible (Hackermoms, ; Rosner & Fox, ). Similarly, in the Dublin PyLadies club, set up in 2013 explicitly to counteract the male‐dominated landscape of computer programming, women meet monthly to socialize, code together, and network with industry (Maalsen & Perng, ).…”

Civic Infrastructure and the Appropriation of the Corporate Smart City

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The hack: What it is and why it matters to urban studies

“…An example of the translation of these logics to the urban is the hackathon, which has become a popular activity in the open data, open source, prototypical and programmable city. The hackathon is an obvious site of the urban hack situated as an event in which citizens identify, prototype and iteratively solve urban problems (Maalsen and Perng, 2016, 2018; Perng, 2019). Commonly, these events are sponsored by a local government, NGO or technology company and are focused on a particular theme.…”

“…Emerging from early cultures of computing, ‘hacking’ is a process of problem solving which celebrates experimentation, creativity and openness (Maalsen and Perng, 2016, 2018). Since then, hacking as a term and practice has been applied to anything that disrupts or creatively engages with inflexible rules, regulations and infrastructures to find innovative solutions (Maalsen, 2019).…”