This workshop invites makerspace facilitators to get in touch with the Maker within them. Participants will explore their own histories and feelings that they associate with making. They will be asked to tune in with their body-mind to inform their reflections. Each participant will take home their very own laser cut artifact.

1. Please fill out this form
2. Participants should submit an approximately 2 page position paper that shares their experience with and relationship to making as facilitators and designers (upload in the form). Papers may be used to answer the following questions; however, there are no limitations:
   • What is your background or relationship to making?
   • What sorts of maker activities are you engaged in?
   • What are some questions you have around making?

Here we are asking you to have fun and get personal. Feel free to upload photos of things you have made. The deeper you are able to dive into the memories that you hold with making the more we will be able to explore together. Participants will be asked to share a few of these stories with the group during round-table discussions. Each paper should be single-authored due to workshop capacity (8 participants). Each accepted paper requires the author to attend the workshop and register for both the workshop and the main conference.

Submission Due Date: Midnight (CST), Friday, May 19th, 2023

Acceptance Notification Date: Monday, May 29th, 2023

Workshop Day: 9am-12pm, Monday, June 19th, 2023