Makers’ ambitions to do socially valuable things

Unterfrauner, Elisabeth; Voigt, Christian

doi:10.1080/14606925.2017.1352835

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“…Recycling and Up‐cycling constitutes one of the factors leading to environmental impacts of the Maker movement, even though the impact is yet taking place only at a micro level (Unterfrauner & Voigt, ). Also, even if there the majority of the interviewed makers seemed to be aware of environmental issues, the level of environmental awareness among the makers varied to a considerable extent.…”

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The environmental value and impact of the Maker movement—Insights from a cross‐case analysis of European maker initiatives

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The aim of this paper is to explore the environmental value of the Maker movement, which is driving digital fabrication into the mainstream. Makers are inspiring each other to create smart solutions for all types of individual needs and address societal and environmental challenges at the same time. They share their creative ideas and solutions in collaborative work spaces and Maker Faires or on social media platforms. Is this grassroots innovation the beginning of the next industrial revolution? This paper will explore the environmental value and impact of makers' innovative business model and discuss on how to increase the circularity. At the same time, we will describe the role of maker communities and how to help to play a better role. In the framework of a case study analysis based on 10 different Maker initiatives across Europe, 39 interviews were conducted with makers and Maker initiatives managers evaluating core questions such as potential environmental value and impact, value chains, and energy efficient behaviours. This study is expected to contribute to building an explorative but yet empirically rooted analysis of the environmental value and impact of the Maker movement. Furthermore, the challenges in the future and the suggestions for policy makers are provided.

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“…The debate surrounding innovation and creativity leads to the question of value generation in and by Open Creative Labs. Projects initiated in labs ‐ especially experimentation‐oriented ones ‐ often target societal challenges, such as sustainability, up‐cycling, or civil participation in knowledge dynamics and technology (Unterfrauner & Voigt, ). Open Creative Labs thus contribute to social value generation by enabling “experimentation for the sake of experimentation” (Fleischmann et al, , p. 126) and for making something meaningful to be used, thus embracing the cultural value of making (Roma, Minenna, & Scarcelli, ; Toombs & Bardzell, ).…”

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“…Fueled by the vivid discourse in the field, expectations in terms of innovative and creative outcomes from Open Creative Labs have been quite high, but proof of direct positive effects remains to be provided (Fleischmann et al, 2016;Unterfrauner & Voigt, 2017). In fact, the innovative potential of Open Creative Labs seems to be limited (Brinks, 2019;Ibert et al, 2018).…”

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In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

Schmidt

2019

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In the past 15 years, we have witnessed an upsurge of collaborative spaces providing an arena for individual and collective creativity, (co)creating craft‐based products, urban manufacturing, and experimentation with business or creative ideas using innovative technologies such as 3D printing or CNC milling machines. The discourses on spaces such as coworking, hacker‐ or makerspaces, accelerators, Fab Labs, and open workshops promise new communities, more innovation, and a transformation of work. This has called for interdisciplinary scholarly attention, primarily from organization and management studies, sociology, and entrepreneurship studies. However, little attention has so far been paid to this development from the perspective of geography. This paper employs Open Creative Labs as an umbrella term for the diversity of spaces and aims at, first, providing an overview of recent interdisciplinary perspectives on the functions of labs in coordinating creativity and entrepreneurship, as well as the motivations of users to utilize these spaces for their projects, and, second, offers an approach to a multiscalar spatial conceptualizations of labs. The paper concludes by exploring policy implications that may benefit from an economic‐geography perspective.

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“…For example, co-creation can concern different stages of the making process as in users downloading a 3D model and printing it themselves instead of sending it to an on-line printing service [31]. Whether or not 3D models can be considered open innovations, according to the authors, depends then on whether they are used by a community in response to an actual need [38]. The latter can be supported by commercial or non-profit organisations, but could also be the result of a more informal bottom up movement.…”

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Not Every Remix is an Innovation

Voigt

2018

Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science

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A better understanding of how information in networks is reused or mixed, has the potential to significantly contribute to the way value is exchanged under a market-or commons-based paradigm. Data as collaborative commons, distributed under creative commons licenses, can generate novel business models and significantly spur the continuing development of the knowledge society. However, looking at data reuse in a large 3d-printing community, we show that the remixing of existing 3d models is substantially influenced by bots, customizers and self-referential designs. Linking these phenomena to a more fine-grained understanding of the process and product dimensions of innovations, we conclude that remixing patterns cannot be taken as direct indicators of innovative behavior on sharing platforms. A further exploration of remixing networks in terms of their topological characteristics is suggested as a way forward. For the empirical underpinning of our arguments, we analyzed 893,383 three-dimensional designs shared by 193,254 members. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Collaborative and social computing systems and tools; • Applied computing → Education; • Hardware → Emerging tools and methodologies;

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Makers’ ambitions to do socially valuable things

Cited by 20 publications

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The environmental value and impact of the Maker movement—Insights from a cross‐case analysis of European maker initiatives

The environmental value and impact of the Maker movement—Insights from a cross‐case analysis of European maker initiatives

In the making: Open Creative Labs as an emerging topic in economic geography?

Not Every Remix is an Innovation

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