Makerspaces are community-run workshops that provide access to tools, equipment, and resources for making, learning, and prototyping ideas. There are currently over 97 makerspaces across the UK that have grown rapidly in recent years. Makerspaces allow people to socialize, learn new skills, and create projects. They may play a role in the future of manufacturing by connecting people with needed resources and expertise for developing products. Makerspaces could help drive a "third industrial revolution" through new technologies like cloud-based digital manufacturing.

1. Makerspaces:
Today and tomorrow
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2. nesta.org.uk/uk-makerspaces

3. 1. What is a makerspace (some pictures)
2. What state are they in today (some numbers)
3. What it might mean for tomorrow (some extrapolation)

4. 1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow

5. Photo: Martin Raynsford
Cambridge Makespace

6. Photo: Andrew Shadura
London Hackspace

7. Photo: Blake Marvin / Metropolis Magazine
Autodesk Pier 9

8. 1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow

9. We found 97 makerspaces,
all over the UK

10. 2006 2015
13
21
16
12
7
4
3
1
0
1
sofar…
New makerspaces per year
Makerspaces have seen rapid growth in the last 5 years

11. In makerspaces, people socialise,
learn and make things

12. In makerspaces, people socialise,
learn and make things
41%
35%
33%

13. 1. What is a makerspace
2. What state are they in today
3. What it might mean for tomorrow

14. Techshop
Meet the right people

15. Photo: Ed Burtynsky
Learn how to manufacture

16. Illustration: Brett Ryder / The Economist
The ‘third industrial revolution?’

17. Cloud DDM (Direct Digital Manufacturing)

18. Art CrawlerField Ready
New VesturesInstitute of Making

19. Thank you
Slides and links: is.gd/makerspaces
Twitter: @andrewsleigh