Institute For The Future

Makers Will Create the Future of Cities

Yesterday, I came across Makers Create the Future, Mark Kleszczewski's article about the emerging maker movement on Business Xpansion Journal. His observations are similar to signals we've found for the future of making: 

In an echo of the personal computer revolution, advancing technologies are fueling a growing “maker movement” of hobbyists, artists, designers, “do-it-yourselfers,” engineers and scientists who are sharing ideas and beginning to reshape the nature of 21st-century innovation and manufacturing...

As physical and digital technologies converge and the maker movement and cooperative manufacturing spread, they’re not just making products, they’re also making vibrant communities of global problem-solvers that may lead to new areas of industry and economic opportunity.

At IFTF, we think these maker communities are also making new ways to organize, interact, and live in our future cities. They're working together to build systems that will solve urban problems like poor infrastructure, hunger, unequal opportunities for learning, and broken governance structures. 

That's why we created Maker Cities, a massively multiplayer online game, to start a global conversation about what a Maker City looks like. Register at makercities.net and play the game when it launches on January 22. 

Play the game. Make the future of your city. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Illustration by GE Garages, www.ge.com and sourced from the cited article.