The ‘Hacker’ Ethic and the Maker Spirit: The ‘Hackerspace’ Experience in the San Francisco Bay Area

Based on an article in Futuribles 410 by Michel Lallement

Drawing on a field study carried out in the ‘hackerspaces’ of California, Michel Lallement shows how different communities gather in spaces dedicated to ‘making things’ and even to ‘making things together’—new spaces of formal or informal work where individuals develop various personal or occupational projects.

The ‘hackerspaces’ of the San Francisco Bay Area, which the present article examines, belong to that new family of organizations whose main common feature is ...