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Ian Cole has been at the helm of Maker Faire Orlando, and its parent organization The Maker Effect Foundation, since its inception. While this spectacular, volunteer run event did not take place in November as usual, Ian has been no less busy manifesting maker experiences for others (and acting as a board member and advocate for makers across the U.S. through Nation of Makers). Florida has more Maker Faires than nearly any other U.S. state (New York wins that prize) and Ian has been deeply involved in building that community, both within Orlando itself and by supporting other Maker Faires acr...

2020 will be remembered as a year of many challenges, but it will also seen perhaps as a turning point for the maker movement—a series of conditions that helped crystallize and accelerate distinct processes, networks, and making into new forms; into a state the collaborators of this book have called, “a living laboratory.” The lasting impact of such changes remain to be seen, but it is clear that for the global community of makers, designers, technologists, scientists, and creative experimenters of all kinds there are new ways of going forward. A new report out by the Distributed Design...