The Tyee is proud to co-publish with Rabble.ca a multi-part, multi-media investigation of Maker Culture – the do-it-yourself movement fast evolving in North America and beyond. The project, directed by Wayne MacPhail, was created by 45 journalism students at the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University.
In This Series
Making 'MakerCulture: Taking Things into Our Own Hands'
Check out the blog, wiki, podcasts, photostream and YouTube channel and feature stories, all part of a new series on The Tyee.
Meet Your Makers
From EduPunks to food jewelers, people are using new tools to take learning, art, entertainment, technology, politics, and even science into their own hands. Behold the growing Maker Movement.
The Replicator, No Longer a Star Trek Dream
Already there are machines that replicate themselves. Now people are working on printers that reproduce human organs.
Making a Living in MakerCulture
Love to knit? Never outgrew Lego? Rather live in the Steam Age? Meet some folks making ends meet while living the DIY dream.
How MakerCulture Is Reinventing Politics
From BikeCamp to Bolivia, a creative new breed makes change from the bottom up.
From Mash-up Novels to Crowdsourced Films
New technology, copyright sharing fuel a creative wave of DIY media.
Rise of the Citizen Scientists
They're tackling gene research, charting the cosmos, crunching complex equations and more.
What's So Great about Hand-Made?
Whether it's dog biscuits or sealskin parkas, creating items by hand builds culture and communities.
Go Ahead, Play with Your Food
Whether inventing jewelry from fruit or art from gum, 'Maker Culture' is finding new ways to satisfy the hunger for creativity.
Our Future Remade by 'Maker Culture'
Do-it-yourself robots, weapons, even human organs. Open source tech makes it possible, but do we want this? Last in a series.