Remaking the Maker Movement

Overview

This event will focus on the role of innovation spaces - such as makerspaces, Fab Labs, hackerspaces, TechShop, and innovation hubs, incubators, and accelerators. This workshop will consider the evolution, growth, and transformation of innovation spaces. It will consider the demise of TechShop, the evolution of Fab Labs, as well as the reconstitution of the Maker Movement.

This event will consider how such innovation spaces manage intellectual property - including copyright, trade marks, designs, patents, and trade secrets. It will also explore how the maker movement draws upon open licensing models - such as through open source software, open source hardware, and the Creative Commons.

This workshop will also consider the social role of innovation spaces in training, education, social enterprises, community-building and peace-making. This event will also consider the role of innovation spaces in the achievement of the sustainable development goals - especially with UNDP's Accelerator Labs.

This event will also focus upon how such innovation spaces responded to the public health disruption of the coronavirus COVID-19, together with the economic interruptions to the supply chain.

This event will feature a cross-section of speakers from the maker movement - including creators and makers; managers and hosts of innovation spaces; as well as academic researchers in the field.

This event is supported by an ARC Discovery Grant on Intellectual Property and 3D Printing, and hosted by the QUT Faculty of Business and Law.

Format

This event will be subject to QUT's management plans and rules in light of COVID-19:

https://www.qut.edu.au/additional/coronavirus

There will be a limited physical audience for this event - capped at 20 people.

Registration is only required for physical attendance of the event.

The presentations will be recorded by the AV Unit of QUT, and made available afterwards.

There will be no live zoom of the event.

A few speakers will be delivering their talks by video.

Programme

10:00 am-11:00 am

Session 1

University Makerspaces

Drivers for Entrepreneurship and Creativity at University

Professor Rowena Barrett, Executive Director, QUT Entrepreneurship

Regional Academic Makerspaces

Stephanie Piper, University of Southern Queensland

The Journey of Building a World-Class Educational Makerspace at The University of Queensland

Vince Kelly, The University of Queensland (by video)

An Ecosystem Approach to Makerspace Sustainability within a Digital Innovation Precinct in Johannesburg, South Africa

Mia van Zyl , Tshimologong (TMG) Makerspace, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (by video)

11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Session 2

Scientific Makerspaces

Soft Matter Materials Laboratory

Dr Sarah Walden, QUT

Bioprinting, the Internet of Bodies and Human Rights

Dr Bruce Baer Arnold, University of Canberra

Shane Rattenbury, the Productivity Commission, and the Right to Repair: Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development

Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT

1:30 pm-2:30 pm

Session 3.

Community Makerspaces

Tool Libraries: Innovation Hubs for Economic Degrowth

Sabrina Chakori, Brisbane Tool Library Inc.

DIY and Making in Low Socioeconomic Communities

Dr Dhaval Vyas, The University of Queensland

Open Prosthetics: Intellectual Property, 3D Printing, Medical Innovation, and Disability Rights

Professor Matthew Rimmer, QUT

3:00 pm-4:00 pm

Session 4.

Makerspaces and the Law

The Role and Patent Infringement Liability of Fab Labs and Community Makerspaces in COVID-19 Response

Dr Muhammad Zaheer Abbas, QUT

Homo Deus: The Promise of Legal Imagination for New Technologies in Innovative Industries

Dr Anne Matthew, QUT

Automating Cities: Welcome to the Machine Metropolis

Brydon Timothy Wang, QUT

4:00 pm-5:00 pm

Session 5

International Makerspaces

Institutionalisation and Informal Innovation in South African Maker Communities

Dr Chris Armstrong, , University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg; University of Ottawa; and Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR) network (by video)

3D Printing and Intellectual Property

Professor Lucas Osborn, Campbell University Norman A. Wiggins School of Law (by video)

International Perspectives on Disability Exceptions in Copyright Law and the Visual Arts

Associate Professor Jani McCutcheon, The University of Western Australia

Acknowledgment of Traditional Owners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=celIi1oV1Ec&feature=emb_title

We acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara peoples as the First Nation owners of the lands of where QUT now stands. For thousands of years the Turrbal and Yugara people have gathered along the banks of Maiwar, the Brisbane River, to share their knowledge and stories. We pay our respects to their Elders, lores, customs, and creation spirits. We recognise that these lands where QUT now stands have always been places of teaching, researching and learning. We acknowledge the important role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people play within our QUT community. From Moreton Bay, inland as far as the Great Dividing Range near Warwick and Toowoomba. As far north as the Caboolture River including the lands around Brisbane city, Meanjin. Yeru yeru yinala balka bebalka (greeting, come and gather) ngai nuguru nguru (my ancestor spirits) mara makura (share old stories and teachings); nunya birralee (thank you sky country) nunya Biame (thank you God). Welcome to the traditional country of the Turrbal and Yugara people.

Photograph Credit

QUT Centre for Materials Science

https://www.flickr.com/photos/qutscienceandengineering/50618365993/in/album-72157716948677022/