Steve Marotta writing in Artisan Economy Initiative:
image courtesy of the bluma project
Lately we have been thinking about how the artisans within the maker movement become (and stay) connected. The movement manages to encompass everyone from tech-oriented hackers and engineers to crafty jewelry makers and clothing designers to artisan food cart chefs to creative branding agencies to socially entrepreneurial placemaking nonprofits. Jeremiah Owyang, a Silicon Valley and San Francisco-based maker movement researcher, has called the maker/artisan connective tissue the "collaborative economy." We prefer to think in terms of an ecology (an assemblage, if you will).
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