Making

Exploring the work of Jennifer Causey and her online photo project, The Makers and the impact of the broader maker movement. People, empowered by the internet, are making things again.

Welcome to the age of adhocracy. As the opposite of bureaucracy, adhocracy cuts across accepted conventions and power structures to capture opportunities, self-organize and develop new and unexpected methodologies of production.

The concept of Mastery is a powerful one, too often lost in today’s multitasked, cross-functional times. We pride ourselves in being jacks-of-all-trades, mildly good at many things as we climb the ladder, but often remaining master of none.

Ariane Michaud and Frederique Sarrazin have created something special out of something banal: a fashionable and modern fall and winter collection made entirely of yarn.

Communications between citizens and their institutions is often problematic, discouraging people from engaging. Brickstarter is a platform to turn possibilities into proposals into projects.

The new loosely organized online lobbyists are becoming a political force. Are they succeeding?

DIY.org is a safe place where kids can connect and learn from each other. It’s also worth noting that DIY is the most recent project of Zach Klein, of Vimeo, CollegeHumor and Founder Collective fame.

Quality education and the nordic model: how it is possible to achieve excellence by focusing not on competition, but on cooperation, and not on choice, but on equity

A physicist-turned-farmer is using open source technology for an innovative project that places the power to survive and thrive directly in the hands of every community.