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Original Articles

Of Makerspaces and Hacklabs: Emergence, Experiment and Ontological Theatre at the Edinburgh Hacklab, Scotland

Pages 130-154 | Received 07 Nov 2016, Accepted 17 Apr 2017, Published online: 19 May 2017

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