Maker Culture
For twelve weeks in the fall of 2009, 45 students Online Journalism students at Ryerson University and the University of Western Ontario, under the direction of rabble board member Wayne MacPhail, worked together to document the evolving Maker Culture community. ..read more
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- March 26, 2010| BySavithri Sastri | Mark Melnychuk | Julianne Hazlewood | Colin Schultz|What will stop Maker Culture from hitting the mainstream?
March 26, 2010| BySavithri Sastri | Mark Melnychuk | Colin Schultz | and Julianne Hazlewood|If we can make everything we need ourselves then what? What are the legal, corporate, cultural and psychological roadblocks MakerCulture needs to break through to the mainstream?
March 19, 2010| BySteve Howard | Nicole Veerman and Jim Saunders|We shouldn't rely on paperwork to back up someone's qualifications. Here is how some people are developing a new, radical approach to education.- March 19, 2010| BySteve Howard | Nicole Veerman | James Saunders|Classrooms are becoming more reliant on technology and ordinary people are starting to take education into their own hands.
March 17, 2010| ByMeagan Perry|Talking election violence in Manila, a little more Olympic activism, fish farming on vacant city land in Toronto, music from Caracol and Alejandra Ribera and who phoned in to rabble radio!
March 12, 2010| ByVincent McDermott | Sonya Benjamin | Arti Patel | Adam Vrankulj and Christian Nathler|Our comestibles get artists' creative juices flowing, both in and out of the kitchen.- March 12, 2010| ByVincent McDermott | Sonya Benjamin | Christian Nathler | Arti Patel | Adam Vrankulj|Makers take food into their own hands -- art ensues.
- March 5, 2010| BySasha-Ann Simons | Madelyn Chung | Lauren Solski|Do-It-Yourself (DIY), or "making" has become a popular trend over the past few years. Here is a look at some of those who are doing it for themselves.
- March 4, 2010| BySasha-Ann Simons | Madelyn Chung | Lauren Solski|We look at makers who provide clothing, shelter and fashion for themselves, by themselves.
February 26, 2010| ByMaria Ionova and Jess Brady | Carrie Simmons|Citizen science is an exciting new trend that increases the size and scope of scientific analysis, widens participation, and draws ordinary people into debate and research.- February 26, 2010| ByMaria Ionova | Jess Brady | Carrie Simmons|Citizen scientists are folding proteins, finding galaxies and all from their own homes
February 19, 2010| ByLauren O’Neil | Laura Schober | Isabella Ssozi | Daniela DiStefano | Brittany Seki|What drives people to get out the ink and paper or turn up the speakers and press record? Why does it matter? The Maker Culture team hear from people adding their own flavour to the media mix.- February 19, 2010| ByLauren O’Neil | Laura Schober | Isabella Ssozi | Daniela DiStefano | Brittany Seki|In this episode, we get our hands around all types of home brewed media—from books to music.
- February 12, 2010| ByShannon Kelley | Katie Atkinson | Conal Pierse | Andrea Damiano | Alana Power|From the local to the global level citizens and activists are taking politics into their own hands.