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New Article: Excellence in the Maker Movement

I’ve written a practitioner reflection piece for the Journal of Peer Production Issue 12, where I talk about the efforts that maker communities around the world are making to be more inclusive and accessible. It’s a special journal issue on the institutionalisation of makerspaces, so check it out for a bunch of other interesting papers too!

Meet: rLAB

Located in a commuter belt town 40 miles west of London, rLAB has been the hackerspace for Reading, England for nearly six years now. rLAB – short for both “Reading Lab” and “Our Lab” – grew out of the monthly Reading Geek Night event in 2011, when a group of programmers, hardware hackers and 3D