How are makers working to improve the future of your city?
Mini-Maker Fairehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/hkmakerfaire/sets/72157635165688596/
Hardware startups
Hackerspace
Urban farming
Above: rooftop
Below: hydroponic
DIY crafts
Top half: leather DIY
Bottom half: crafts co-working space
Apartment hackingTop, left: transformers apartments (Gary Chang, Debi Yeung)
Right: converted industrial buildings (often grey area legality)
Community
What is unique about maker culture in your city?
• Disconnected from one another
• Haunted by necessity (some)
• “Alternative” not mainstreamHobbyist not big business
• Mini-Maker Faire• http://hkmakerfaire.wordpress.com
• Hardware startups• http://lookingglassfactory.com • http://makibox.com• http://phonejoy.com • http://www.ambiclimate.com
• Hackerspace• https://www.facebook.com/DimSumLabs • https://www.facebook.com/groups/hackjam
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• Urban farming• https://www.facebook.com/cityfarm.hk • http://www.hkfarm.org • https://www.facebook.com/farmdirecthk
• DIY crafts• http://www.alriworkshop.com • http://www.fungusworkshop.net/main.html • https://www.facebook.com/motifstudio • https://www.facebook.com/leatherism.hand
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• http://www.auroraleatherware.com/course-details.html
• https://www.facebook.com/LeatherDIY • http://www.thecrafties.hk
• Apartment hacking• http://www.designboom.com/architecture/g
ary-chang-on-urbanism-and-his-metamorphic-apartment
• http://www.educationpost.com.hk/resources/art-design/130813-architecture-interior-designer-debi-yeung-small-apartment-turned-big
• http://blogs.wsj.com/hong-kong/2011/05/31/lofts-living-large-and-illegaly
• Community• http://hkmarkets.org • https://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/hong-kong
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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_New_Year_Fair
• https://www.facebook.com/goodswap • https://zello.com
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