Download - Makerspaces: today and tomorrow. Presentation at Made North, Sheffield Design Week June 2015
Makerspaces:Today and tomorrow
Slides and links: is.gd/makerspacesTwitter: @andrewsleigh
nesta.org.uk/uk-makerspaces
1. What is a makerspace (some pictures)
2. What state are they in today (some numbers)
3. What it might mean for tomorrow (some extrapolation)
1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow
Photo: Martin Raynsford
Cambridge Makespace
Photo: Andrew Shadura
London Hackspace
Photo: Blake Marvin / Metropolis Magazine
Autodesk Pier 9
1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow
We found 97 makerspaces, all over the UK
2006 2015
13
21
16
12
7
43101
so fa
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New makerspaces per year
Makerspaces have seen rapid growth in the last 5 years
In makerspaces, people socialise, learn and make things
In makerspaces, people socialise, learn and make things
41%
35%33%
1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow
Techshop
Meet the right people
Photo: Ed Burtynsky
Learn how to manufacture
Illustration: Brett Ryder / The Economist
The ‘third industrial revolution?’
Cloud DDM (Direct Digital Manufacturing)
Art CrawlerField Ready
New VesturesInstitute of Making
Thank you
Slides and links: is.gd/makerspaces Twitter: @andrewsleigh