The salon format is old for a reason. Put knowledgeable people in a room, give them a specific question, and let the thinking happen. Light framing, real conversation, and no pre-packaged takeaways.
Makerspace Salons are scheduled when a focused question and facilitator are confirmed. CSR practitioners, researchers, and people working inside nonprofits sit together and work it out.
What to Expect
Most learning in this field happens at conferences, where one expert talks and everyone else takes notes. That format has a ceiling. You can absorb frameworks and case studies, but you can't pressure-test them against your own context.
Salons are different. They run on the premise that the people in the room already know things. The conversation is designed to surface what they know and let it collide productively.
Each session is hosted by someone from the RW Institute team, typically runs about 90 minutes, and follows a loose structure: a short framing piece, then open discussion, then a brief synthesis. Some sessions may also include a guest speaker or visiting creator. Registration is free and capped.
Registration is capped so the conversation stays real. When too many people are in a room, fewer of them actually talk.
Each salon is built around a single question that doesn't have a clean answer. The kind worth spending 90 minutes on.
A Salon opens when the question, facilitator, and participant group are confirmed. The Luma calendar is the source for upcoming sessions.
No cost to attend. Registration is required so we can manage the group size. All sessions run online.
Upcoming Salons
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The structured working side of the Makerspace. Labs run on specific frameworks and produce real deliverables. Capped registration, output-focused.
Open Access
Explore frameworks, guides, and field materials that extend the ideas surfaced in Makerspace salons.
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