Thinking About Making

Important Quotes and Things to Note:

“Humans make stuff, it’s really something that defines us as a species”

Make movement — “sense that something new and exciting and interesting is happening”

Making as “A social movement that people identify with”

“we’ve been celebrating this uniting of the physical with the digital and celebrating this reconnection of our brains to our bodies, celebrating this reintroduction into society of working with your hands”

Who are makers?

85% men and boys featured on the ‘make’ magazine cover

0% people of color

Openness egalitarianism inclusion — language

Is this who makers are? — white and Asians guys

Men work at the magazine 87%, men write the articles 85%

80% of the people consuming them are male

Middle aged white college educated males

Who are makers part II

What counts as making?

Tech, robots, cars are showcased as making

Language and ideas used by makers — promises to celebrate making in all forms

Change and revolution is all exactly the same

“Homogeneity matters bc these are the people with power and money and their education spinoffs get the funding from google and the government and DARPA.”

Telling everyone to be like rich white guys

Lots of cool technical making products that aren’t on the radar

If you aspire to be a social movement and to educate

Thoughts and Questions:

• Important themes from this piece are…

“Eyeo 2014 — Leah Buechley on Vimeo.” Vimeo. Accessed October 16, 2016. https://vimeo.com/110616469.