This course focuses specifically on what has been called “Maker Culture.” This so-called “culture” is a contemporary phenomenon inspired by a spirit of DIY and a hacker aesthetic that can be traced in the history of computer hardware and software design. To begin, students explore the history of this “culture” by studying the Victorian Arts & Crafts movement and the 18th-century Luddites. Students then move through modern DIY movements before ending up in digital maker/hacker spaces, quite literally. This course pays specific attention to the role of “design” in maker culture, and students complete a design project that involves making a digital object-to-think-with.