By Helen Keegan,
Makerspaces are part of a broader cultural trend around DIY culture where tinkering, creating and collaboration take place in informal cross-disciplinary spaces. Makerspaces (also known as ‘hackspaces’) are underpinned by constructivist pedagogies, as participants are able to learn together through hands-on experimentation. There is something inherently playful about the makerspace: the lack of formality and the celebration of ‘mess’, tinkering, and experimenting. While such spaces have always been a feature of arts-based education, the tech-led maker-culture infused hackspaces of recent times have tended to be fringe communities: subcultures characterized by a DIY ethos and setting themselves apart from the mainstream.
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