Creativity in Unlikely Places
Announcing Makeshift Magazine
 A Journal of Hidden Creativity
In backalleys, garages, and shops across the world, a class of tinkerers are building new things. With little money and varying levels of formal education, the makers of our globe's cities are innovating with what they have to hand. Separated by language and distance, most don't think of themselves as part of a movement.
At new magazine called Makeshift wants to change all that. In the US, MAKE magazine became a rallying point for do-it-yourself tech nerds and hackers. Makeshift wants to bring that sense of community to the international scene.
At their Kickstarter page, they say:
Makeshift is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website about creativity in unlikely places, from the favelas of Rio to the alleys of Delhi. These are environments where resources may be scarce, but where ingenuity is used incessantly for survival, enterprise, and a self-expression. Makeshift is about people, the things they make, and the context they make them in.
The Atlantic Monthly has an article on this magazine, with a slide show.
The Chinese Farmer-Roboticist and Other DIY Technologist Tales. Sep 8 2011, The Atlantic Monthly
Makeshift from Makeshift on Vimeo.
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