[Makerspace-keymembers] Fwd: Question of Citizenship and Makerspace

[Emily Knox]

I think that's a really really really really really good idea.


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Monica Marie Carr
<monica.mcarr at gmail.com>wrote:

> I wish that the professor would just tell his student's that they can come
> to open hours. I got interviewed at Maker Faire for what I believe is the
> same class project. I think we should have Maggie forward that message to
> her class. And I can write her back.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Jeffrey Putney <quaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I didn't reply yet but I found this to be a very intriguing inquiry.
>> Anyone want to write back and maybe invite them to open hours sometime?
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Maggie Johnson <maggie94.johnson at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:43 PM
>> Subject: Question of Citizenship and Makerspace
>> To: makerspaceu at gmail.com
>>
>>
>> To whom it may concern,
>> Hello my name is Maggie Johnson and I am a student at the University of
>> Illinois.  I am taking a course on citizenship and I have to write a final
>> paper on an organization in the area that applies to citizenship. I have
>> decided to write about Makerspace mainly because it seems that this
>> organization is making a statement that people should be more self
>> efficient and kind of steer away from consumer based society. With the
>> resources Makerspace has to offer, it could mean that this organization is
>> teaching people that anyone and everyone has a right to knowing how to make
>> their own products and encourage the community to come together and find
>> ways to express their voice within at least the city of Urbana. I just
>> wanted to see if you feel the same or if there is anything different that
>> you feel Makerspace has to offer as far as creating disruptive citizenship
>> in a world where the market is the dominant force in our lives. Thank you
>>  --Maggie Johnson
>>
>>
>>
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>> Jeffrey Putney
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> Diagnostic Photonics
>> 217-766-6580
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> Monica Carr
> Doctoral Student
> Department of Anthropology
> University of Illinois
> mmcarr2 at illinois.edu
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