The “maker movement”, a.k.a. maker culture, is taking off across North America as indie artists, DIY artisans, and open-source-software lovers take sheer delight in creating original new objects and designs.
At Langara College, these creative dynamos have their own maker space, which still hasn’t been officially launched, in one of the former chemistry labs.
Tomo Tanaka, chair of Langara’s creative arts and industries division, told the Straight by phone that he had just come from this space, where there were a dozen students working on various projects.
“One of the things I’ve worked hard on as division chair is to have more cross-talk, more interdepartmental and interdivisional discussions,” he said.
This maker space will make that much more likely to take place in the coming years.
“It’s basically two rooms right now,” Tanaka explained. “We have 11 3-D printers,…
