ABSTRACT
The Maker Movement connotes an anti-establishment philosophy of self-agency in the creation of objects, against the backdrop of mass production and heavy industrialization. Individual makers or artist groups who created and sold jewelry, postcards and posters, or hand-painted T-shirts began to appear on the scene, but these were sporadic and autonomous. As invaluable as the social component of Maker KT and other groups is, their programming remains too basic to push for technological innovation. To explore the possibilities of making in Nepal, consider the work of Maker KT. In Nepal, gender roles discourage girls from tinkering with technology, and girls and women must contend with preconceived notions of what they are capable of. There are domains of work socially assigned to women that are not as acknowledged for their value, and there are tasks where men dominate, which are more explicitly appreciated. It is important for Nepal to critically assess what paradigms Nepali students are looking at maker culture through.
