Citizen Engagement in Policy-Making through Material Deliberation
In May 2019, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) inaugurated the first ever makerspace in an EU institution, bringing together a network of more than 800 EU makerspaces. The start of the pandemic required imagination to continue what had started as a promising journey of experimentation with citizen engagement in policy-making in which material deliberation and tinkering practices gained prominence. This chapter analyses the rationales underlying the possibility of extending civic intervention in public spaces to a policy-making milieu. To facilitate this, we introduce the maker movement and the different strands of the debate on ‘making’ and personalised fabrication, and present the shortcomings of the participation and engagement practices that are currently discussed in the debate about the public understanding of science (PUS) and public engagement with science (PES). We then present five case studies, two of which were implemented by the JRC makerspace, which demonstrate how makerspaces and the maker culture contribute to citizen engagement in policy-making.
ROSA Paulo;
VOELKER Thomas;
GUIMARAES PEREIRA Ângela;
2025-07-11
Hart Publishing
JRC102804
978-1-50995-085-0 (online),
978-1-50995-082-9 (print),
978-1-50995-083-6,
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-detail?docid=b-9781509950850&tocid=b-9781509950850-chapter14,
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC102804,
10.5040/9781509950850.ch-014 (online),
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