Fab12 Shenzhen – FabLab 2.0

The evolution of tools and gadgets designed to simplify the understanding of mathematics in all cultures has been of interest to from antiquity to the present day. there was a calculation tool called by the researchers as "Yupana" which has a similarity with ABACO Chinese origin in ancient Peru. This project has developed a Hartware and software using the calculation system of the ancient Peruvians; to be used in operational processes basic math positive integers in primary schools. Motivated...

Educators have long-standing experience using FabLabs in many parts of the globe. In India FabLabs are at a nascent stage and available for a small community of informed users, mostly in urban settings. Workbench Projects (WP), a young FabLab/Makerspace in Bangalore, made its first headway working with a select group of government school 'theatre teachers' under its pilot initiative of the Fab Educators Programme. Teachers became the ground zero of this project because they represent a small ...

Fablab 2.0 is about enabling Fablabs as development platforms for new fabrication technologies. From this perspective, we have an obligation to become meta-reflective on our technology development - not just for immediate usability and transparency for users, but to push the frontiers of what is possible within the maker movement. In this paper we will explore selected cases of how Fablab RUC as a research Fablab develops new maker tools for students, researchers and entrepreneurs - and how t...

The purpose of this research is to identify how digital fabrication techniques could help in women entrepreneurship and empowerment in Kudumbashree, which is one of the largest women empowering project in the country launched by Government of Kerala, India in 1998. Literal meaning of Kudumbashree is prosperity (shree) of family (Kudumbam), a project which aims in wiping out absolute poverty from the state. At present, this empowerment program has touched nearly all the sectors from agricultur...

Fab Labs are communities guided by ideology, the desire to democratize production. However, actual activities in some Labs appear contradictory to ideological rhetoric, especially to critics. Issues that are important to Labs in theory, from supporting peer learning to localizing production to encouraging fabrication according to need, are easily overshadowed by structural conditions and current concerns. Impacts outside the Lab can remain invisible. Given these conditions, Fab Labs in the gl...

Fab Lab in developing countries has different operational problems. Within the constraints of resources, they have to prove effectiveness and the impacts of utilization of Fab Lab for their community. Vigyan Ashram (VA) Fab Lab was started in Pabal, a small village in western India with the support of MIT and Fab Foundation in 2002 and has been operational since then. It was started in a small 150 sq.ft tin shed with few machines. This lab is used by rural youth mainly, school dropouts. As th...

Fablabs provide people with the possibility of making (almost) any object, by sharing digital fabrication tools and knowledge on making. However, to use these tools require experience in designing with 2D or 3D computer-aided design programs, that are mostly created with expert-users in mind. In the research project "Bespoke Design" we made personal self-management tools for and together with type 1 diabetics. One of the findings of Bespoke Design was that making personal designs without the ...

Fab Labs, Makerspaces and Hackerspaces are part of a decentralized global Do-It-Yourself movement providing unique resources to tinkerers, hobbyists, inventors and artists to make almost anything. Individuals who use these facilities are often called "makers". This preliminary research offers insight into why people intend to return to making by testing a "maker" behavioral model blended from the theory of planned behavior, the technology acceptance model, and creative self-efficacy. The resu...

The Digital Fabrication creates new educational possibilities. The recent research show how it can help support other ways of learning, mainly through both skills development with technology and collaboration among students. We think that we can use this method of learning for a public popular, victim to the social divide. We use digital fabrication like a positive system for motivating the young school dropout. We have deployed a social fablab, between a training center and a fablab, in a po...

This paper is about the government initiative from São Paulo City Hall to create a public network of twelve laboratories of digital fabrication, Fab Lab Livre SP. This proposal will present the phases of the project, from the initial concept to implementation, going through the challenges, goals and strategies for the sustainability of the project. The main concept of the project is to have an open and free network of laboratories of digital fabrication, to democratize the access of a creativ...

The proposed methodology for the design, prototyping and manufacturing of the infrastructure for the Floating Fab Lab Amazon project is based on the efforts from various international collaborative members working within the field of technology, education, design, and community engagement. Working within Fab Lab and private practice, each member of the teach shares the common goal of working as a network to collectively design and build an environmentally friendly as well as culturally adapti...