ABSTRACT
In this chapter we describe how youth in a summer making program at a community-based making space, the South End Technology Center (SETC), learned to search for information and materials they needed for their projects. In particular, we followed activity around a communal table at which youth were sitting, and the ways in which that social context supported how they found and made sense of different information. The search for information relied on the dynamic social network at SETC, and benefited from social relations in evaluating and making sense of new ideas and information youth encountered. The chapter discusses the concept of meshworking to describe social movement, relationship building, and information flow in making spaces.
