A Feminist Utopian Perspective on the Practice and Promise of Making
A Feminist Utopian Perspective on the Practice and Promise of Making
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10.1145/3411764.3445126
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2021-05
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Johanna Okerlund;David C. Wilson;Celine Latulipe
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作者：
Johanna Okerlund;David C. Wilson;Celine Latulipe
虽然人们经常从民主化和赋权的乌托邦愿景来讨论创客空间，但许多人已经表明这些叙述是有问题的。人们对创客空间的未来仍然持乐观态度，但在如何阐明其承诺以及如何实现其承诺方面存在知识差距。我们作为大学创客空间的领导者，对我们为阐明愿景所做的努力进行了反思性和批判性的反思，以及我们举办创客时装秀的经验，旨在解决一些具体的批评。我们使用女权主义乌托邦主义作为镜头来分析时装秀参与者的采访，以帮助我们理解另一种乌托邦叙事的制作。我们的贡献包括关于特定制造环境如何体现女权主义乌托邦主义的见解、关于女权主义乌托邦主义在创客空间研究和愿景工作中的适用性的见解，以及关于我们的结果如何指导创客空间领导者和人机交互研究人员的讨论。
While makerspaces are often discussed in terms of a utopian vision of democratization and empowerment, many have shown how these narratives are problematic. There remains optimism for the future of makerspaces, but there is a gap in knowledge of how to articulate their promise and how to pursue it. We present a reflexive and critical reflection of our efforts as leaders of a university makerspace to articulate a vision, as well as our experience running a maker fashion show that aimed to address some specific critiques. We analyze interviews of participants from the fashion show using feminist utopianism as a lens to help us understand an alternate utopian narrative for making. Our contributions include insights about how a particular making context embodies feminist utopianism, insights about the applicability of feminist utopianism to makerspace research and visioning efforts, and a discussion about how our results can guide makerspace leaders and HCI researchers.