Hackerspace News

We’re re-opening!

🇺🇸 · The Bodgery · bodgery

We are opening the space up again, slowly to follow City rules. Hurray! We’re starting with opening up to current members (and we’re SO grateful for their continued support during this difficult time. Thank you!) . We’ll bring them in slowly in batches, so we’re keeping space utilization within recommended percentages. We have new COVID policies for those using the shop. Check them out here . Once we’ve brought back all our current membership, we’ll begin holding new member orientations and giving them access. If you’d like to become a member, go to the membership page and follow directions there. We look forward to meeting you! When the timing feels safe to the board, we’ll begin our process of opening up to the public, via Open Shop nights (Mon/Fri nights) and classes. Stay tuned here on our website (banner at the top), and social media channels (FB, Instagram) for announcements on when we’re open to the public again . Thanks for your patience with this slow opening, and the extra steps to keep others healthy!

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Overview of ReFactor

🇺🇸 · Queerious Labs

The ReFactor project emerged out of a handful of conversations folx were having both as part of the Queers Read Leftism reading group and outside of it. The main goal of the project is to ask how the current technology we use for production of goods – whether that’s clothing, shelter, food, energy, water, or whatever else – has been shaped by the particular path through capitalist industrialization since the late 1700s. Once we have a good sense of where that has happened and how, we can then go on to ask a second question, namely, how can we refactor our technology, taking full advantage of modern tools and resources, to eliminate the centralization of production, and the deep interdependence of our tools on one another.