Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Every Maker Faire around the globe is a unique reflection of the community it’s based in. One of the aspects that informed the world’s first Maker Faire, Maker Faire Bay Area, is the large and vibrant local Burning Man community. Maker Faire Bay Area is fortunate to have had a strong presence of Burning Man art and makers for the past 14 years.
That San Francisco Bay Area enthusiasm for making large-scale / kinetic art has in turn influenced what Maker Faire is known for around the globe, and is part of the experience that people look for when they come to a Maker Faire.There is also the community overlap in the people behind the scenes: We have shared production team members. Maker Faire team have participated as artists and makers at Burning Man from the early years, and vice versa. Burning Man has hosted Maker Faire Producer meetups out in the desert. Maker Faire organizers have referred foreign artists to the Burning Man arts grants program.
And as the two creative culture networks have propagated around the globe — the Burning Man Regional Network and the Maker Faire Global event program — our work and partners continue to cross. In Europe especially, several Maker Faire Producers also serve as very active Burning Man community members. Our shared interest in cultivating open source culture, and shared values around resourcefulness, resilience, curiosity and creativity — as well as the foundational embrace of making and doing and building — all of this has perpetuated an organic allegiance.
This year Burning Man shared that they were planning to host their annual European Leadership Summit in Aarhus, Denmark, at DOKK1, a globally known library and cultural center—which also happens to be the home of the Aarhus Mini Maker Faire. This overlay was too much to not honor; time for an official collaboration!
So this coming weekend of April 12-14, Burning Man Project and Maker Faire will hold simultaneous private European leadership summits in Aarhus. And then on Saturday, April 11, host a shared and free to the public program at DOKK1 called The Radical City: Dreamers, Makers and Doers. If you are on the European continent, we invite you to drop all you are working on and get to Aarhus to celebrate, network, dream and learn with us.
Maker Faire wants to thank Burning Man and DOKK1 (and the Aarhus Mini Maker Faire team) for bearing the…
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