Collaboration at New Places of Production: a European View on Procedural Policy Making for Maker Spaces

Bastian Lange; Steve Harding; Tom Cahill-Jones

doi:10.6092/issn.2612-0496/9556

Authors

Bastian Lange University of Leipzig http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3619-900X

Bastian Lange, Dr. phil., private lecturer at the University of Leipzig. He taught as guest professor (2011-2012) at Humboldt University Berlin (2011-2012) and University of Vechta (2018-2019). In 2008 he founded the independent research and consultancy office Multiplicities in Berlin. For 13 years Multiplicities has been supporting politics, business and creative scenes in the European context on ways to sustainable urban regions. Multiplicities advises municipalities, cities, federal states and EU programmes on the development of innovative places with collaborative participation processes.
Steve Harding Birmingham City University
Harding, Steve, Dr., is the Coordinator of Birmingham City University’s STEAM Fellows Programme working with academics towards the opening of a new interdisciplinary campus focussing on how the Arts can add critical insights to the analytical approaches of STEM. He has been active in many transnational projects focussing on creative cities and economic development, skills for business and enterprise, cross innovation for new combinations of SMEs and most recently in how maker spaces can help catalyse innovation in city eco systems. Steve led the writing team setting out the European Structural and Investment Fund strategy for the Birmingham city region for 2014/20. He has recently completed a Study Visit to California to further develop the University’s position in STEAM thinking and practice. Steve chairs the Initiative for Social Enterprise in Birmingham and the Community Development Trust in Moseley, which hosts The Exchange coworking space.
Tom Cahill-Jones Birmingham City University
Cahill-Jones, Tom, PhD. Tom is an experienced Director/Manager with a demonstrable history of working in the creative and higher education sectors. Skilled in Innovation Development, Policy Development, Operations Management and Performing Arts. His research skills range from a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electroacoustic Music Composition from The University of Birmingham to a professional interest in makerspaces.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2612-0496/9556

Keywords:

policy clinic, translocal, policy making, collaboration

Abstract

The paper sheds light on a university-led cross-innovation approach where the focus is on so-called “Makers” as a distinctive local group. We introduce the format of a policy clinic—comparable to policy innovation labs—as a method to bring different stakeholders from various local contexts under a given thematic topic temporarily together to learn how to initiate new policies for maker spaces. The key thematic interest is to focus on city challenges and approaching so-called “wicked problems.” This requires wide stakeholder engagement by others not present at the event of the policy clinic. The clinic is a temporary trans-local event but is framed by wider participation involvement that starts earlier and is accompanied by a number of approaches before the Policy Clinic event takes place. The paper sheds light on a university-led cross-innovation approach where the focus is on so-called "Makers" as a distinctive local group. We introduce the format of a policy clinic—comparable to policy innovation labs—as a method to bring different stakeholders from various local contexts under a given thematic topic temporarily together to learn how to initiate new policies for maker spaces. The key thematic interest is to focus on city challenges and approaching so-called “wicked problems.” This requires wide stakeholder engagement by others not present at the event of the policy clinic. The clinic is a temporary trans-local event but is framed by wider participation involvement that starts earlier and is accompanied by a number of approaches before the Policy Clinic event takes place.

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