{"id":1669,"date":"2014-02-14T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T10:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2015-11-21T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-21T16:09:55","slug":"mapping-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/mapping-making\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of UK maker spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-process-of-connecting-products\/\">my work with the Connected Digital Economy Catapult<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been putting together a map of hacker \/ maker spaces in the UK. These spaces are really important in linking a person with a project idea to a community with resources. Maker spaces are also more than physical resources, they can be a platform for someone to meet like minded people in their area, find co-founders, find the impetus to work on a project that&#8217;s been sitting on the side of the kitchen table, or even find the necessary resources to start a business. I&#8217;ve only mapped out the physical spaces for now (mostly for the purposes of the report I&#8217;m writing) but if you want the complete list of people who also just meet and hang out have a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/hackerspaces.org\/wiki\/List_of_Hacker_Spaces\">the Hacker Space<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/mapsengine.google.com\/map\/u\/0\/embed?mid=zNeCJ4V3DoSI.kJ9cMHEk8j0A\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my work with the Connected Digital Economy Catapult, I&#8217;ve been putting together a map of hacker \/ maker spaces in the UK. These spaces are really important in linking a person with a project idea to a community with resources. Maker spaces are also more than physical resources, they can be a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/mapping-making\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A map of UK maker spaces<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[104,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-maps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-qV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1884,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669\/revisions\/1884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}