ABSTRACT
Makerspaces are sites for experimentation around ideas at the intersection of creative production and next-generation tools. The physical design of makerspaces encourages creativity by embracing key principles of mobility, diversity, and openness. Tinkering, a central practice cultivated in makerspaces, helps makers to better adapt to the needs of the 21st century by prizing creativity over optimization in the iterative design process. Making is a unique confluence of high- and low-tech tools and materials, resulting in new domains of creativity ripe for future study. Maker culture contains several examples of toolkits developed to expand creative maker possibilities, and of makerspaces used to create new economies of products and ideas.
