Presentation given at the Online Educa at 30 November 2012, Berlin.

1. Creative Labs
Frank Kresin / Research Director
institute for art, science & technology

2. 1900

3. 2012

4. OPEN DESIGN
FABLAB @ WAAG SOCIETY

5. OPEN DESIGN
FABLAB @ WAAG SOCIETY
KEY PRINCIPLES
• Creativity
• Technology
• Entrepreneurship

6. FABBING

7. 3D PRINTING

8. FABLAB TOOLS

9. OPEN DESIGN
OPEN SOURCE HOUSE C_MM_N - OPEN SOURCE CAR

13. Personal Power Plant
http://www.instructables.com/id/personal-powerPlant/

14. CREATIVITY
Design For Your Future Self

15. ENTREPRENEURSHIP
• q
LemonBow
http://www.lemonbow-swimwear.com/

16. TECHNOLOGY
FabFi
http://fabfi.fablab.af/

17. open prosthetics
http://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1943

18. PRINCIPLES
The best producer is the actual user
He/she can learn to build (almost) anything
Share blueprints & stand on the shoulders of others
Making helps us to understand the world we live in

21. WHAT DO FABBERS LEARN?
• Sharing & Collaborating
• Product development
• Prototyping Processes
• Innovation Processes
• User Research
• Mindset of the designer: solving problems
• …

22. Special Interest Group Creative Labs
DEFINITION
A Creative Lab is a working space where
creativity and multidisciplinary collaboration
are used to come up with new,
unusual solutions or propositions.

23. Lab Landscape
Labs:
4
2 • Fablab A'dam
2
• CAMeRa
2 • FreedomLab
• MediaLAB Amsterdam
• Gameship
• T-Xchange
• Smart eXpericience Lab
• LEF future center
• Fablab Arhnem

24. LEF FUTURE CENTER

25. LEF FUTURE CENTER

26. ID STUDIOLAB

27. ID STUDIOLAB

28. SMART XP LAB

29. SMART XP LAB

30. T-XCHANGE

31. T-XCHANGE

32. FABLAB ARNHEM

33. Tools

34. GOALS
CREATIVITY TECHNOLOGY

35. FUNDING
SUBSIDIES
USERS
EDUCATION CORPORAT
E

36. Open
Ideas Things
Restricted

37. Key Aspects I

38. Key Aspects II

39. Goals Skills Relation to formal
education
Facilities Methods
Collaboration Funding Results

40. Frank Kresin
Research Director
Waag Society
@kresin
waag.org
frank@waag.org