Making Members Makers

We offer a maker workshop in a temporary makerspace set up at your workplace. Become an active maker instead of a spectator. The terms maker and makerspace come from American Do It Yourself culture. As a maker you produce things yourself instead of consuming them. A maker works in many ways like an artist or a curator, but has a clearer connection to grassroots movements and the activities of participatory subcultures. The maker identity can therefore be said to be more inviting, and anyone who wants to can become a maker and co-creator.

A makerspace is a kind of crafts club, a collective workshop. It is an open concept describing places that can hold room for art, craft, robotics, electronics, programming, cooking, sewing and much more. A makerspace is a place where people can meet and "create" together, both physically and digitally. Makerspaces often resemble workshops with computer-controlled machines such as laser cutters, 3D printers, CNC mills and vinyl cutters. Democratic values are central to maker culture and the work is done voluntarily; the exchange of experience and knowledge takes place in what could be described as an "enthusiast economy". In Making Members Makers, a temporary makerspace is set up in the art association's premises. The project is carried out in collaboration with Stockholm Makerspace and the people who run its lectures, workshops and courses. The aim is to turn the art association's members into active participants: from members to makers, quite simply.