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We’ve gathered a few resources here that provide starting points for learning more about the topics and questions in the Liberatory Makerspaces Action Cards, including links to the sources when available.

A collage showing photographs of Open Works makerspace in Baltimore, MD: (a) A woodshop with tables and equipment, and a ramp in the foreground. (b) A poster with words, "What do you want to see in our lobby? *Vote with a sticker!" There is a grid of 12 labeled boxes, each with a different picture and star stickers attached as votes.
Scenes from the Open Works makerspace in Baltimore, MD: (a) Wheelchair-accessible woodshop. (b) A poster in the lobby to gather feedback from makerspace members.

Making Culture in K-12 Education

Drexel’s ExCITe Center

High Risk (With Hope For) High Reward: Lessons Learned from Planning and Hosting an Unconference

Masters, McNair, Riley

Nation of Makers Member Directory

Nation of Makers Core Principles

Nation of Makers

I'm 'Special'

Kellgren-Fozard

A collage showing: (a) A gray-haired woman using a handheld fire torch to add color to her copper artwork at the Floyd Arts Center in Floyd, VA. (b) At the Sanger CSW makerspace in Sanger, CA, a printed paper sign hangs on a door; it reads, "Young Maker Zone. Attention!!! All Adults. Please check-in with SAM Academy Staff before entering the 'Young Maker Zone.' Thank you." Through the door's window, the room is visible; one child stands at a worktable and another child is being assisted by an adult instructor.
Scenes from (a) a metal sculpture workshop at the Floyd Arts Center in Floyd, VA; (b) a makerspace for youth at the Sanger Community Science Workshop makerspace in Sanger, CA.

Social Model of Disability

National Disability Arts Collection & Archive

Making a Makerspace? Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design

Access Engineering

Making Space in the Makerspace: Building a Mixed-Ability Maker Culture

Alper

Legitimate Peripheral Participation in a Makerspace for Emancipated Emerging Adults

Bonnette, Crowley

MakeAbility: Creating Accessible Makerspace Events in a Public Library

Brady, Salas, Nuriddin, Rodgers, Subramaniam

Gender, Age, and Ethnicity in Makerspaces

Deafenbaugh, Nation of Makers

The Academic Wheel of Privilege

Elsherif et al., page 84

Nurturing Kindergarteners’ Early STEM Academic Identity Through Makerspace Pedagogy

Hatchey, An, Golding

Diversity and Making: A Living History Quilt

Huber, Sari, Meher

‘Making’ as a Catalyst for Engaging Young Female Adolescents in STEM Learning

Hyllegard, Ogle, Diddi

Social Identity Map

Jacobson, Mustafa

Minority Tax Definition

Kamceva et al.

Makerspaces for All: Serving LGBTQ Makers in School Libraries

Kitzie, Moorefield-Lang

Studying the Formation of an Older Adult-Led Makerspace

Lazar, Pradhan, Jelen, Siek, Leitch

Youth Makerspace Playbook

MakerEd

Exploring Making Through Mobile Emergent Technologies: Makerspace Education in Rural Community

Nixon, Halverson, Stoiber

Good Fonts for Dyslexia

Rello, Baeza-Yates

Makerspaces for Inclusive Education

Reynaga-Peña, Myers, Fernández-Cárdenas, Cortéz-Capetillo, Glasserman-Morales, Paulos

Positionality practices and dimensions of impact on equity research

Secules, McCall, Mejia, Beebe, Masters, Sánchez-Peña, Svyantek

Fostering Spaces for Black Joy in STEM-Rich Making and Beyond

Worsley, Roby

Photograph of a social media post by Jen Schacter showing a 3d printed puzzle sculpture of Rosie the Riveter. The text reads: Happy #WeekOfMaking @NationOfMakers! Look what we made at #NOMCON – #WeTheRosies made of 2,635 separate pieces from 700 collaborators on 6 continents – what will YOU make?
Jen Schacter led a crowd-sourced art project at the Nation of Makers conference in 2018 by creating a 3d puzzle.

Ready, Set, Design!

Cooper Hewitt

Investigating culturally-contextualized making with the Navajo Nation: Broadening the normative making mentality

Frank, Douglas, Williams, Crane

A Review of the Data Collection Methods Used at Higher Education Makerspaces

Imam, Ferron, Jariwala

Promising practices that promote inclusivity at University affiliated makerspaces within schools of engineering

 Kellam, Boklage, Coley, Liu

Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process

Lerman

Iterative Design toward Equity: Youth Repertoires of Practice in a High School Maker Space

Martin, Dixon, Betser

Liberatory Learning: Dismantling the Hidden Curriculum

McNutt

Liberatory Design Card Deck

National Equity Project

Understanding Equity of Access in Engineering Education Making Spaces

Villanueva Alarcon, Downey, Nadelson, Choi, Bouwma-Gearhart, Tanoue

A collage showing photographs of adaptive devices designed by the Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing club: (a) A crew boat in the water is shown with an oar mounted on only one side. An exercise weight is mounted to one side of a crew boat's wing rigger to act as a counterweight for the opposite oar and balance the boat. This adaptive design made it possible for a person to row with only one oar. (b and c) two views of a handmade light made from a thin piece of hard plastic, zip ties, and two lights: one green and the other red, mounted on opposite sides of the plastic; (d) a man of color moving from a wheelchair into a crew boat with two people standing nearby offering support as needed; (e) a man of color sitting in a crew boat that is outfitted with an adaptive stationary seat and seatbelt; (f) a two-step bench made of wood with a black leather-like material on the top surface (g, h, and i) three progressive images showing a young white woman transferring from her walker to a crew boat using the two-step bench. The boat is outfitted with an adaptive stationary rowing seat and a few people are standing nearby offering support as needed.
The Philadelphia Adaptive Rowing club in PA is both an outdoor recreation company and a makerspace. They have designed devices to increase accessibility to crew rowing, including: (a) a wing rigger with an exercise weight mounted to one side, counter-balancing the oar on the other side; this setup allows a person to row with only one oar. (b and c) lights made to attach to crew boats that increase their visibility in the dark, allowing for evening rowing even in the fall when dusk comes on earlier; (d and e) a man transfers from his wheelchair into an adaptive stationary rowing seat and then dons a seat belt for lower trunk support; (f) a two-step bench used to move from the dock to a crew boat; (g, h, and i) a young woman transfers from her walker to an adaptive stationary rowing seat using the two-step bench.

Makerspace or Waste of Space: Charting a Course for Successful Academic Library Makerspaces

Benjes-Small, Bellamy, Resor-Whicker, Vassady

An Evolving Makerspace for Teacher Education

Dousay

Sustaining a Makerspace

Fontichiaro

Building a framework to guide makerspace purchasing decisions

Mathewson, k-12 dive

Make the Data

Nation of Makers

Let's Talk Tools

Nation of Makers

Starting a Makerspace

Nation of Makers

Creating space for equity in making

 remake learning

makeshop

Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh

Girl Scouts: Get making with get moving!

MakerEd

MIT Edgerton Center

Youth Development, Community Engagement, Family Access, Innovation Camps, Designers in Residence, Adult Programming

NYSCI

Creative Studios

Slover Library, Norfolk, VA

All you need is a ‘what if…’

Tinkercad

National Summer Teacher Institute

United States Patent and Trademark Office

 Detroit SOUP program

Build Institute