Document Type
Article
Abstract
Academic makerspaces which are discipline-agnostic face the daunting task of trying to meet the needs of a humbling array of approaches to inquiry while maintaining a sustainable and safe environment for making. Establishing a set of policies that does not place structural barriers based on discipline demographics is a substantially separate process from establishing a sociocultural environment that earnestly facilitates "the imaginative work of interdisciplinarity"for faculty and student research within a simultaneous variety of departmental affiliations and backgrounds. This presentation explored the multifaceted efforts undertaken at the University of Texas at Arlington FabLab to legitimately serve as wide a cross-section of the campus community in the makerspace as possible, using a notably diverse campus community as a case study. Presentation at the International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces at Stanford University, August 5, 2018.
Publication Date
8-5-2018
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Musick Peery, Katie, and Morgan Chivers. "Intentionally Cultivating Diverse Community for Radically Open Access Makerspaces." International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces. Stanford, California. August 5, 2018.