Re-Making the Makerspace: Body, Power, and Identity in Critical Making Practices

Gollihue, Krystin Nicole

doi:10.1016/j.compcom.2019.05.002

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“…Raspberry Pis, physical circuit building, data visualization and analysis, and Arduino microcontrollers (Gollihue 2019). In the introduction to Making Things and Drawing Boundaries, Jentery Sayers (2017) affirmed that critical making still needed to critique "the normative assumptions and effects of popular maker cultures-usually white, cisgender, straight, male, and able-bodied" (7).…”

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confidence: 99%

Noise Composition: A Story of Co-Design and Relationality

Hammer¹

2022

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

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Section: Copyrighted Materials Not For Distributionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Noise Composition: A Story of Co-Design and Relationality

Hammer¹

2022

Reprogrammable Rhetoric: Critical Making Theories and Methods in Rhetoric and Composition

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“…As such, the dominant maker culture exudes whiteness as property by legitimizing their discourses, practices, and tools in making (Keenan-Lechel, 2019). Critical maker educators aim to broaden what counts as making and who is or can be a maker (Peppler et al, 2016) by challenging dominant discourses and practices (Barajas-López & Bang, 2018;Gollihue, 2019). Within the last decade, minoritized youth, who have been the focus of a wide range of maker intervention programs, and yet have been positioned as novice/outsider in need of being mentored into making through deficit lens and lack of acknowledgment of their cultural wealth.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To the contrary, making has been presented as elitist and perpetuates anti-blackness in subtle, yet still harmful ways. The structural inequities and forms of oppression that limit opportunities to make in ways that matter include the powered relationalities that inform life in makerspaces (Gollihue, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Fostering Spaces for Black Joy in STEM-Rich Making and Beyond

Worsley

Roby

2021

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What does it mean to express Black joy and loving blackness through STEM-rich making? What does it mean for Black youth in community-based, youth-focused makerspaces to express Black joy and loving blackness? We look at how Black youth alongside their facilitators co-create spaces of Black joy through making. These makerspaces are located at two local Boys and Girls Clubs in the US Midwest and the Southeast. Makerspaces are informal sites where youth are encouraged to work collaboratively while building digital and physical artifacts. As two Black female STEM educators working with Black youth we frame our work in critical race theory. Specifically we draw on the tenets of whiteness as property and counter-narratives. Using critical ethnographic methods, we explore the ways in which Black youth produce counter-narratives that disrupt whiteness as property through STEM-rich making. Data sources include fieldnotes; artifacts, such as youth work; interviews; and video recordings. The first vignette highlights how two Black girls navigate choosing and creating characters using Scratch. The second vignette focuses on a brother and sister duo who center their making on family and their shared maker identity. We then discuss the freedoms afforded to youth with flexible co-designed curriculum with facilitators and how we foster open spaces. We address this special issue’s driving question by asking, How do we, as STEM facilitators, counter anti-blackness in/through STEM by fostering space for Black joy with youth in making?

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“…Public libraries and libraries in educational institutions are creating their own makerspaces, and the maker movement has attracted scholarly and pedagogical interest across disciplines and areas, including digital humanities, education, human-computer interaction, library and information science, business, and rhetoric and composition. In rhetoric and composition, my primary field, there is growing interest in making and makerspaces, as evidenced in increased representation in recent calls for proposals for conferences and collections and in the work of a growing body of researchers and teachers, including Krystin Gollihue (2019), Maggie Melo (2018), Jentery Sayers (2017), David Sheridan (2010), John Sherrill (2014), Jason Tham (2019), and Stephanie West-Puckett (2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Beyond the Makerspace

Shivers-McNair¹

2021

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Makerspaces—local workshops that offer access to and training on fabrication technologies, often with a focus on creativity, education, and entrepreneurship—proliferated in the 2010s, popping up in cities across the world. Beyond the Makerspace is a longitudinal, ethnographically informed study of a particular Seattle makerspace that begins in 2015 and ends with the closing of the space in 2018. Examining acts of making with objects, tools, words, and relationships, Beyond the Makerspace reads making as a kind of rhetoric, or meaning-making work, and argues that acts of making things are rhetorical in the sense that they are culturally situated and that they mark boundaries of what counts as making and who counts as maker. By focusing on a particular makerspace over time, Shivers-McNair attends to a changing cohort of makerspace regulars as they face challenges of bringing their vision of inclusivity and diversity to fruition, and offers an examination of how makers are made (and unmade, and remade) in a makerspace. Beyond the Makerspace contributes not only to our understanding of making and makerspaces, but also to our understanding of how to study making—and meaning making, more broadly—in ways that examine and intervene in the marking of difference. Thus, the book examines what (and whose) values and practices we are taking up when we identify as makers or when we turn a writing classroom or a library space into a makerspace.

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Re-Making the Makerspace: Body, Power, and Identity in Critical Making Practices

Cited by 16 publications

References 26 publications

Noise Composition: A Story of Co-Design and Relationality

Noise Composition: A Story of Co-Design and Relationality

Fostering Spaces for Black Joy in STEM-Rich Making and Beyond

Beyond the Makerspace

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