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Empirically, the paper combines situated field engagement in a makerspace and subsequent tracing of its pandemic-related activities with qualitative analysis of institutional documents, media reports and scientific literature on digital health and additive manufacturing. The analysis traces how heterogeneous infrastructures linking maker communities, hospitals, technoparks and state innovation agendas stabilised imaginaries of rapid response, civic participation and future-oriented healthcare. I use the concept of enabling infrastructures to show how these arrangements made particular interventions technically possible, socially legitimate and politically imaginable. They also exposed tensions between openness and standardisation, civic empowerment and unevenly distributed labour, and technosovereign aspirations and continued global dependencies. 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