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Beyond the Makerspace: Making and Relational Rhetorics

Ann Shivers-McNair
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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.
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Relational Rhetorics
  • Chapter Two. Stories
  • Chapter Three. Spatial Manipulations
  • Chapter Four. Disequilibrium
  • Chapter Five. Community
  • Chapter Six. Teaching
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Sweetland Center for Writing in making this book possible.
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Published: 2021
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license
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  • 978-0-472-90241-5 (open access)
  • 978-0-472-05485-5 (paper)
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  • Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
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  • Composition

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A vertical timeline indicates the years 2014 through 2019 on the left and key events in the research study on the right: the opening of SoDo Makerspace in 2014, the beginning of fieldwork in 2015, the opening of Makerologist in 2017, the closing of SoDo Makerspace in 2018, and the end of fieldwork in 2019.

Chronology visualization: 2014-2019

From Introduction

Figure 1. Chronology visualization: 2014–2019

Tony Loiseleur, who identifies himself as “a product of the French occupation of Vietnam,” wears glasses, a driving cap, and a black sweater. He kneels in front of a work station with a light gray surface with a yellow stripe at the edge. On the work station, eye level with Tony, is a 3D printer with dark brown and red plastic parts and metal hardware. Behind Tony is a dark gray metal garage door. Tony rests his right forearm and left hand on the work station surface.

Still: Tony works on a 3D printer and discusses human-technology relations

From Chapter 1

Figure 2. Tony works on a 3D printer and discusses human-technology relations

Tony works on a 3D printer and discusses human-technology relations

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Richard Albritton, who has a beard and brown hair (save for a pink ponytail) and is wearing a brown shirt, stands in front of an operating industrial laser cutter in a warehouse space, leaning down toward the machine and sliding his right hand through a small opening in the front of the machine designed to create airflow across the cutting bed. Behind the laser cutter is an unfinished mural, predominantly in blue and yellow, of people working with tools.

Still: Richard operates the laser cutter

From Chapter 2

Figure 3. Richard operates the laser cutter

Richard operates the laser cutter

From Chapter 2

3D-printed spatial manipulation toy in motion

From Chapter 3

Three rectangular, green, plastic tabs are connected with a metal keychain and labeled with the printer name and settings with which they were produced.

3D printing instructions in written text and labeled objects

From Chapter 3

Figure 5. 3D-printing instructions in written text and in labeled objects

On the left side of the figure is a close-up of a piece of wood floorboard with puzzle piece cutouts and handwritten notations of speed and power settings. On the right side of the figure, Eric stands facing the laser cutter computer screen, wearing a baseball cap. In his left hand he holds a piece of wood floorboard with a speed and power grid cutout, and with his right hand he marks settings with his fingers.

Eric documents speed and power settings on project material

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Figure 6. Eric documents speed and power settings on project material

On the left side of the figure is a close-up of the wood floorboard piece with puzzle piece cutouts and a burn mark in the middle. Speed and power settings are noted in handwriting above the burn mark. On the right side of the figure is a close-up of a small fire and smoke on the dark metal laser bed, just below the laser head and gantry.

A little fire in the laser cutter

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Figure 7. A little fire in the laser cutter

A laser cutter carries out Clarissa's instructions for a third prototype

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