Growing Community Based Innovation in Nova Scotia
The Maker Movement is as old as time and yet is new again. The idea that individual resilience grows from an internal trust in one’s abilities to solve problems and innovate solutions, has driven the progress of humankind for millennia.
We Are All Makers: Celebrating Community-Based Brilliance
This article looks at a sampling of local makerspaces, an emerging national effort, and a few international initiatives. They are all weird and wonderful. And, although varied, they all have the same common denominator - citizens from all walks of life gathering in local spaces to explore, make, invent and solve - which is what makes them so amazing.
Pushing Back on the Gentrification of Innovation
A population that believes that we all have the capacity for innovative thinking is foundational to prosperity and resilience. By recognizing, celebrating and nurturing citizen-based innovation we turn that capacity into a capability.