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fabbiz Medellin
Juan Esteban Vallejo: juanes.vallejo@gmail.com
Diego Guayasamin: diegoguayasamin@gmail.com
Daniel Fuentes: danielfue@gmail.com
Summary
In the context of the Colombian peace-negotiations advancement, the Latin
American Network of FabLabs1
, FabLat, created fabbiz to connect its
resources (FabKids, FabMobile, and FabPublic) 2
to initiatives aimed at
empowering internally-displaced communities.
Program
The main components of fabbiz are the following: i) informative
videoconferences offered by Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace
about the main challenges faced by internally-displaced communities; and,
ii) a social entrepreneurship bootcamp for co-designing the sustainability
models of FabLat’s intervention programs.
 Workshops: Design thinking (socialBaq); Co-creation, open-business
models, and creative-commons opportunities (3D.LAB);
Entrepreneurship stages: value proposition design and customer
development (Innovalatam); Rapid prototyping (Unreasonable México);
Storytelling (Socialatom Group); Social impact measurement (Socialab);
Innovation with gender perspective (Claudia Duque); and, Social
Business-model canvas (Alterna Impact).
1
FabLabs are technical prototyping platforms for innovation and invention, sharing common tools and processes with
a global network of 700+ labs across the world--all affiliated with the MIT. These labs provide a platform from which a
community’s technical challenges can be shared with this international network, which can help problem solve and
design solutions with and for the community.
2
In its exploration stage, FabKids represents offering fab workshops to children and teenagers of internally-displaced
communities; FabMobile is setting up mobile fablabs and bringing these tools to communities that otherwise would not
have an easy access to these resources; and FabPublic stands for setting up fablabs in public spaces (such as public
libraries).