Abstract
Circular makerspaces have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by promoting circular-making activities such as reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling. However, community building is essential for maintaining a circular makerspace, which requires engaging the makers and future users in circular-making activities. In this paper, we argue that involving locals in the design of circular makerspaces can facilitate community building and support makers' sense of belonging to the space. We present the experience of involving citizens in establishing circular makerspaces in seven European cities as part of the EU-funded H2020 project, [Project Name]. We developed a technique, called the Local Future Stories (LFS) to gather the values, visions, and dreams of local communities that may potentially support community building and engagement around circular makerspaces in Leuven, Venlo, Kaunas, Santander, İstanbul, Thessaloniki, and Pireaus. In this paper, we present citizen-driven values and visions from these cities around circular makerspaces and reflect on LFS's potential to bridge top-down and bottom-up knowledge into project framing in multi-stakeholder international projects. Our work makes two contributions to the literature: presenting LFS as a new technique to collect citizens' values and visions into circular makerspaces and presenting citizen-driven values and visions which would inspire other European cities to establish new circular makerspaces
Keywords
Circular Economy, Maker Movement, Circular Making, Futures
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.332
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Ramírez Galleguillos, M., Çay, D.,and Coşkun, A.(2023) Global goals, local future stories: unpacking contrasts and visions of circular economy activities in neighbourhood makerspaces, in De Sainz Molestina, D., Galluzzo, L., Rizzo, F., Spallazzo, D. (eds.), IASDR 2023: Life-Changing Design, 9-13 October, Milan, Italy. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.332
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Global goals, local future stories: unpacking contrasts and visions of circular economy activities in neighbourhood makerspaces
Circular makerspaces have the potential to contribute to sustainable development goals (SDGs) by promoting circular-making activities such as reusing, repairing, refurbishing, and recycling. However, community building is essential for maintaining a circular makerspace, which requires engaging the makers and future users in circular-making activities. In this paper, we argue that involving locals in the design of circular makerspaces can facilitate community building and support makers' sense of belonging to the space. We present the experience of involving citizens in establishing circular makerspaces in seven European cities as part of the EU-funded H2020 project, [Project Name]. We developed a technique, called the Local Future Stories (LFS) to gather the values, visions, and dreams of local communities that may potentially support community building and engagement around circular makerspaces in Leuven, Venlo, Kaunas, Santander, İstanbul, Thessaloniki, and Pireaus. In this paper, we present citizen-driven values and visions from these cities around circular makerspaces and reflect on LFS's potential to bridge top-down and bottom-up knowledge into project framing in multi-stakeholder international projects. Our work makes two contributions to the literature: presenting LFS as a new technique to collect citizens' values and visions into circular makerspaces and presenting citizen-driven values and visions which would inspire other European cities to establish new circular makerspaces