Date of Award
Summer 8-27-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Geography
First Advisor
Carson Farmer
Second Advisor
Jochen Albrecht
Third Advisor
Douglas Gress
Academic Program Adviser
Hongmian Gong
Abstract
Desktop digital fabrication technology has the potential to powerfully alter the economics, geography, and sociology of production. The desktop technology cannot reach its potential for widespread impact until it improves in quality and decreases in price. Makerspaces have emerged in the United States in the last eight years as informal social organizations where innovation in this technology may be occurring. This study examines whether innovation in digital fabrication technology has occurred, or has the potential to occur, at makerspaces in the New York City area.
Recommended Citation
Dickerson, Kathryn, "The Innovation Makerspace: Geographies of Digital Fabrication Innovation in Greater New York City" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/8
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