https://process.arts.ac.uk/content/pop-digital-maker-space Comments for "Pop Up Digital Maker Space" en https://process.arts.ac.uk/content/pop-digital-maker-space#comment-3760 <h1 align="center"> What Is A Media Lab?</h1> <h2 align="center"> Situated practices in media studies</h2> <p align="center">Media labs, hacker zones, makerspaces, humanities labs, fab labs, tech incubators, innovation centres, hacklabs and media archaeology labs: they’re everywhere, and we can’t stop talking about them.</p> <p>Media labs are liminal but increasingly powerful spaces in many contemporary settings. They appear in universities and colleges, wedged uneasily between traditional departments and faculties. They’re also in basements, warehouses, strip malls and squats. They are stable to varying degrees; many have long-term addresses and an itinerant roster of occupants. Some pop up in one location for a few days, then relocate to another. Sometimes they’re even in mobile trucks in the streets, bringing tools and expertise to children in schools and the general public. As clusters of tools and talent streamlined to produce economic value, labs sometime align with the most ruthless of venture capitalists; in other cases, they are free and open for all to use, disdainful of all commercial motivations.</p> <p>Read more here - <a href="http://whatisamedialab.com/" title="http://whatisamedialab.com/">http://whatisamedialab.com/</a></p> Fri, 05 Feb 2016 12:49:44 +0000 cfollows comment 3760 at https://process.arts.ac.uk