<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><br></div> Andrew - that video you posted is off the hook. The shot at 4:40 where the skater is bailing on tundra rocks is magazine-worthy. I hope you sent this clip around!<br> The look on the girl's face at 4:04 is great too - exhilarated and astonished.<br></div></div><div> Thanks for the info about your project! I'm going to forward this around to some friends!<br></div><div><br></div> -Jason Cobill<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Jason Cobill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Szeto</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew.szeto@outlook.com" target="_blank">andrew.szeto@outlook.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 3:54 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Lab] Strategies for inclusion?<br></span><div><div class="h5">To: Jason Cobill <<a href="mailto:jason.cobill@gmail.com" target="_blank">jason.cobill@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>
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<p>Jason, that is amazing information. Last year, I was fortunate enough to go up to Iqaluit for their Youth Arts Month. I taught Photography/Videography & Skateboarding: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7h5bpJsVfo" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7h5bpJsVfo</a></p>
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<p>We left equipment (lenses for cell phones and skateboards) for the kids. We're all still relatively connected too through instagram & facebook, which is pretty awesome.</p>
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<p>We were fortunate enough to get funding through the Nunavut Government, First Air donated flights and it was all fostered by a local artist, Pascale Arpin (<a href="http://www.pascale-arpin.com/" target="_blank">http://www.pascale-arpin.com/</a>). She's
absolutely awesome for the Iqaluit community and our crew is going down again in the next week. For future years, I think bringing a maker-centric experience could be epic. Worth touching base with Pascale for future years, or at least getting her perspective
as to how we could help. Anyhow just wanted to share my experience. Finding these motivated individuals can definitely help.</p>
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I spent a decade in Winnipeg and the Prairie region (including up North), and I can tell you from first-hand experience that there are places that people live that you would not believe are possible in a developed country. The "Maker Movement" often professes
that any challenge can be overcome with ingenuity and collaboration, but I don't think any of the deeply systemic societal problems that have allowed for this to happen are going to be solved with extruded plastic and laser-cut MDF. (More like decades of effort
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<div><span> But I think access and exposure to tools and ideas can change individual lives. That's one of the reasons I love the Maker Faire so much - exposing people to the
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There's a great (here I go again with shout-outs) organization called Actua based here in Ottawa that, among other things, fund and run tech workshops for kids in over 200 indigenous communities (particularly in Northern Canada). If anyone's interested in
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<div> I think if we want to bring indigenous people (or anyone) into the community, you need to capture their imagination: hands-on workshops with enthusiastic maker ambassadors. If only 1 in 100 catches the bug - that's a new Maker!<br>
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<div> So how do we bring the Maker Faire up north? A Maker Faire Shipping Container that travels around on cargo boats? :)<br>
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<div>I think it's a great point about being aware of the privileged place we speak from, but more important than recognizing one's privilege is thinking meaningfully about what one will do with the privilege we have. Discussion is key to that process and listening
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<div>One of the challenges the article made me think about is as Canadians, and as Ottawans living on unceded Algonquin territory, what kind of intersection do we imagine for the indigenous issues, locally and nationally and the maker movement? I don't think
its just a matter of making sure we can include and educate people on making and amateur science because it feels like it needs to be more of a two way street... there is more dialogue needed perhaps between different world views. Its all very tricky!</div>
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<div>We have some great creative people on this list.</div>
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<div> I'm really excited to share that the maker gang I work with inadvertently hit gender parity without ever explicitly setting out to. (5 women, 5 men)</div>
<div> Certainly gender disparities exist in the Maker Movement here, but I think Ottawa (maybe more than other places), has tremendous women role models and leadership in the tech community and consequently the local maker movement benefits from their efforts. I
could spend all day sending shoutouts, but people like Ladies Learning Code, GirlForce, Carleton WiCS, Algonquin WEET, etc, etc are organizations that should be celebrated and supported. Not forgetting the awesome gang of women instructors at the uOttawa Makerspace
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<div> The issue of race in the Maker community is really complex, and I think inseparable from issues of class, income and privilege. "Making" is a hobby that requires a considerable investment of time and money that's out of reach for most. Again, we have
some excellent organizations in Ottawa that deserve a shoutout, in particular Brittania Woods Community Center, who packed up a busload of people from Ottawa's poorest neighbourhood to shuttle them to last year's Maker Faire.</div>
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<div> Brittania Woods is also running a code mentorship program called Kids Can Code, and have invested heavily in maker toys (Lego Mindstorms, arduinos, robot kits, etc) to get into the hands of kids who don't have them at home. They're doing really amazing
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<div> I think it's really important to reach out and support these organizations, many of which need volunteers and mentors more than they need money (but they need that too). It's easy to drop a 3D Printer on a poor neighbourhood (which seems really trendy
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<div> Playing Devil's Advocate a little: I was disappointed when O'Reilly started producing "Craft" magazines and events separated from the Make brand - I felt like they were being intentionally divisive. The Crafting (as defined by O'Reilly) community is
very heavily female-dominated but the distinction is entirely arbitrary. I feel like we could reach gender parity overnight if we just broadened the (already hazy) definition of "Maker" to include textile artists, culinary explorers, horticulturalists, etc,
etc. I mean ultimately the thing that defines a "Maker" is a passion for creating things, right?</div>
<div> Consider that there are <b>4 million</b> Ravelry users. What is knitting if not a kind of manual 3d Printing process? And have you seen some of the machines they're using? There are some crazy innovative quilters out there (seriously).</div>
<div> There's another <b>47 million</b> users on Pinterest. You'd better believe these people are making things.<b> I think it's petty</b> to try to separate them from the Maker community because of some arbitrary corporate manipulation to isolate a demographic
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<div> PS: I'm always a little scared to wade into these kinds of discussions publicly because I'm a perfect example of a person with multiple levels of privilege and these kinds of discussions so often turn explosive online. I don't mean to trivialize the
ongoing diversity problems in STEM, but I feel like we rarely celebrate the great progress that we're making and the enormous efforts people have invested to get us here. *highfive* To all of the awesome ladies, LGBT, and people of colour making super cool
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