2. Main activities: what does a Place Lab do?
ā¢ Addressing social needs serving from textile industry
in certain geographical area
ā¢ Employment, social status
ā¢ Give motivation to social exclusion
ā¢ Community building
ā¢ Map out the needs, what the place lab will offer
ā¢ Make sense, hold ups for problem solving on local
area
ā¢ Education/skills
ā¢ Focus on what people can bring
ā¢ Craftsmanship
ā¢ Differentiation
ā¢ Synergy/Summer school
ā¢ Test tinkering
ā¢ Produce selling myths
ā¢ Fashion/textile education
ā¢ Competitions
3. Facilities
ā£Common space to experiment
ā£Social space/ community
ā£Sewing tools
ā£Tutorials/documentation
ā£Sample of textiles and accessories
ā£Knowledge, libraries
ā£Literature/web/study
ā£Repository
4. Setting
ā£ In geographical areas that have been hit hard by
textile manufacturing crisis
ā£ In geographical areas of high creativeness/
skills/knowledge
ā£ Search where knowledge about T&C is
ā£ Census, door to door survey
ā£ Team up with other fablabs (hackspaces)
ā£ Depend on local situation
ā£ Design, manufacture, marketing
ā£ Train, exchange & experience
ā£ Transnational cooperation, common products
ā£ Eco-impact, sense of material, sustainability
ā£ Access to fablab network
5. Service concepts & tangible results
ā£ Start comprehensive
ā£ socio-manufacturing service
ā£ Innovation service
ā£ Place to come together and have fun
ā£ Find cross-cutting topics with other sectors
ā£ Co-designing of local reality, collaborative & based
on collective intelligence
ā£ Can be on-line? Yes (ex Etsy)
ā£ Tutorial
ā£ workshops (zig-zag)
ā£ Tangible results: community together
6. Audience
ā£ Local stakeholders
ā£ Cooperatives
ā£ Tailors, unemployed, young unemployed, students,
home workers
ā£ Running institutions
ā£ Diversification of labour as strength.
ā£ Place labs take up social diversification and
strengthen their special opportunities
7. Supervision
ā£ Shared ownership
ā£ Employees volunteers
ā£ Supervision depends on the level of support
ā£ Give more, ask more
ā£ Give nothing, ask nothing
8. Sustainability & enviroment
ā£ Innovative network, the capital
ā£ Start with something that already exsists
ā£ Fab-school model
ā£ After school? So parents can go to work?
ā£ From low tech to high teach teaching
ā£ Jobs
ā£ Summer schools
ā£ On-line shopping platform
ā£ Market + social national support
ā£ Reuse material for new products
9. Fairness
ā£ Test models of fair production and fair trade
ā£ āManucraftingā
ā£ Danger of the āSocial stigmaā
ā£ Shared ownership?