Great to hear that Alex Megelas finished his paper!
Hi Johannes –
We met two years ago, when my friend Zinta and I visited monochrom during the summer.
I remember when we met, you were talking very passionately about your frustration with these spaces – and their reliance on a staid (white dude) monoculture. So I wanted to follow up with a quick note to let you know that I’m citing you in my MA thesis. I thought you might get a kick out of it given that it’s about hackerspaces and the general lack of permeability of their (cultural/social) boundaries.
In our case, this was a small qualitative research project about building a bike-powered generator at Foulab. Most of our participants happened to be women, and this certainly contributed to the challenges we had during the project – though there were other aspects too.
Anyhow – in case you want to have a look, here’s the link: http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/978978/
I hope all’s well on your end.
Alex
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Alex Megelas
educator, mediator, visual artist and so forth
alexmegelas.com