Last weekend was a good weekend in Ottawa, Canada. The brand new government was promising hope in the nation’s capital, the Redblacks clinched the East Division title, the Ottawa Fury scored in overtime to send the team to the NASL final next week, and Canada’s first feature Maker Faire showed off creativity and innovation to a record number of attendees.
Art and design are central to the maker movement for this reason: they are how we express our passions, and our passion is what feeds the excitement in others and inspires the next generation of Makers. To me, going to a Maker Faire has always been a journey of discovery and adventure — and there is no better way to “show and tell” than at a maker faire.
Here are a few of the things we saw:
- A robot that tries to feed participants, sometimes rather awkwardly. I liked how it seemed to be telling the story of our sometimes awkward relationship with technology. Does technology attempt to do too much? Are we becoming dependent at the same time we are achieving so much?
- One art piece was simply a fork scratching a ceramic plate on a turntable. What is it about that sound that drives us crazy?http://makezine.com/2015/11/17/art-at-the-heart-of-canada-ottawa-maker-faire-gets-crafty/
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