Since the beginning of the 2010s, the existence of widespread shared workshops has enabled access to digital manufacturing tools. Mainly located in urban areas, these facilities seek to make means of production, to design, prototype and repair all kinds of objects available to the citizens. These practices have been supported by activists of the “democratization” of digital manufacturing spearheaded by the maker movement. Urban authorities have gradually been won over by the these activits’ promises to encourage entrepreneurship, generate new knowledge, mobilize citizens and even transform the perceptions of and the way in which manufacturing is conducted in the city. However, these activists’ attractive discourse overly mechanically equates the accessibility of these digital tools to the idea of empowerment. Under what conditions can these practices of making lead to an increase in citizens’ individual and collective power to act, or even to social change? This article aims to answer this question by firstly constructing an analytical framework of makerspaces empowerment, and secondly by analysing the case of the public network of makerspaces in Barcelona: the Ateneus de Fabricació. To do so, our qualitative research will be based on the documentary analysis of official publications, direct observations carried out at the aforementioned workshops, and in-depth interviews with key players Barcelona makerspaces’ scene. Our results will demonstrate that in the context of smart cities, the public acceptance of these places leads to the transformation of administrative practices. Free access to public makerspaces is accompanied by a change in the relationship between public organizations and users in order to promote the empowerment of the inhabitants of Barcelona thanks to these fabrication practices.

自2010年代初以来，广泛共享的研讨会的存在使人们能够使用数字制造工具。这些设施主要位于城市地区，旨在为居民提供生产资料，设计，原型制作和维修各种物品。这些实践得到了由制造商运动带头的数字制造“民主化”活动家的支持。这些活动鼓励企业家精神，产生新知识，动员公民，甚至改变人们对城市制造业的观念和方式的承诺，已逐渐使城市当局胜出。但是，这些激进主义者的诱人论述过分地将这些数字工具的可访问性等同于授权的概念。在什么情况下，这些制造行为会导致公民的个人和集体行动能力甚至社会变革能力增强？本文旨在通过首先构建赋予制造者空间能力的分析框架，其次通过分析巴塞罗那制造者空间公共网络的案例来解决这个问题：Ateneus deFabricació。为此，我们的定性研究将基于对官方出版物的文献分析，在上述研讨会上进行的直接观察以及对巴塞罗那创客空间主要参与者的深入采访。我们的结果将表明，在智慧城市的背景下，公众对这些地方的接受导致了行政管理方式的转变。