Fab15 Egypt – Collectively Intelligent

Entrepreneurship Education and Training (EET) is the most commonly used pedagogical approach used to increase self-efficacy in entrepreneurship skills. Initial analyses revealed that the Maker Training positively impacted self-efficacy in maker skills, self-efficacy in entrepreneurship skills, and readiness to engage in innovative entrepreneurship among the participants.

In this research we overlook our experiment of involving young teenager girls in technology field. Fab Lab Libya accomplished this program in 2017/2018 targeting training students between 16-17 years old on basics of electronics and programming. Although the training program was free of charge the number of female participants was less than 16%, so we had to ask and investigate why. With the reference of the Competition which took place at the end of the program for best 6 hardware/software p...

Material Culture in Peru has undergone changes in the last decade due to the incorporation of digital manufacturing technologies. This paper examines the intersection of traditional material culture and digital fabrication in Peru.

Smallholder farmers are responsible for roughly seventy percent of total global cocoa production. In this project, we collected the experiences of the traditional procedures used by the cocoa farmers to design a prototype of an automated fermenter. The design began using Design Thinking to realize the functional model of the prototype, in which we defined the requirements, actuators, control and monitoring units. Based on information from the sensors and an electrical motor as actuator to con...

Companies today seek different ways to co-create and collaborate with innovators, startups and fablabs. However, the collaboration models between fablabs and corporates remain unclear. This paper explores business collaboration models between fablabs and corporates.

The FabCity initiative aims at fostering the social resilience of urban areas by structuring networks of making. Considering the tension of the global economic competition relying on nomadic competencies and the local anchorage that fabrication requires, this paper explores the emergence of connected terroirs. Using a Semiologic Design methodology developed at thr34d5 medialab, and the Actor Network Theory, this paper proposes a systemic understanding of the articulation between the FabCity n...

Innovation cannot create social good but social good can be accelerated by innovation, provided that purpose is established. Chhattisgarh is a state in India with a population of about 30 million and its economy has been driven by agriculture and steel. Initially, the idea was to promote the adoption of making as a culture through training programs on technologies available at the Fab Lab. It was soon decided to explore the possibility of using the 36INC Fablab to solve real problems. Using F...

Facing an uncertain and rapidly changing future, Fablabs are a great environment to teach social and technical skills that are relevant for the 21st century [1-3]. At Fablab ULB, we, a professor of architecture and a professor of physics, are experiencing and developing an agile teaching method to make students work with digital tools [4] in interdisciplinary teams and to make a real-world impact. Starting with a "real world" problem, we guide the students to define their own assi...