Digital fabrication technologies allow the interaction between digital information (bits) and physical materials (atoms). Fab Labs are spaces that provide access to digital fabrication tools and technologies for community members to collaboratively design and create projects that span the digital and physical realms. Examples of applications of digital fabrication include mass customization, customized prosthetics, data visualization, generative design, and shortening supply chains. While digital fabrication empowers creativity and making, activities like weapon production are prohibited in Fab Labs according to their charter.
Digital Fabrication Studio.01 _Fabbing @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Fab Labs : a overall idea of what a Fab Lab isFing
A few years ago Fing has the opportunity to visit several locations in Europe and in the U.S. This presentation will give you an overall idea of what is a Fab Lab. It is divided in 4 parts :
1- the concept and definition
2- operational aspects
3- Illustrations, examples
4- Taxonomy
The Fab Lab Life Cycle; Report of the FAB10 workshops; Pieter van der Hijden ...Pieter van der Hijden
The Fab Lab Life Cycle; Report of the FAB10 Workshops; Pieter van der Hijden* & Beno Juarez** with help from Enrico Bassi, Klaas Hernamdt, Massimo Menichinelli, Dirk van Vreeswijk, Anna Waldman-Brown
* Fab Lab Paramaribo (Suriname) & Sofos Consultancy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ** Fab Lab Lima (Peru)
FAB10 - International Fab Lab Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-8 July 2014
Digital Fabrication Studio.01 _Fabbing @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Fab Labs : a overall idea of what a Fab Lab isFing
A few years ago Fing has the opportunity to visit several locations in Europe and in the U.S. This presentation will give you an overall idea of what is a Fab Lab. It is divided in 4 parts :
1- the concept and definition
2- operational aspects
3- Illustrations, examples
4- Taxonomy
The Fab Lab Life Cycle; Report of the FAB10 workshops; Pieter van der Hijden ...Pieter van der Hijden
The Fab Lab Life Cycle; Report of the FAB10 Workshops; Pieter van der Hijden* & Beno Juarez** with help from Enrico Bassi, Klaas Hernamdt, Massimo Menichinelli, Dirk van Vreeswijk, Anna Waldman-Brown
* Fab Lab Paramaribo (Suriname) & Sofos Consultancy (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), ** Fab Lab Lima (Peru)
FAB10 - International Fab Lab Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2-8 July 2014
I fab lab in fvg (dall'idea al progetto)Carlo Fonda
Breve rassegna di alcuni concetti base: cos'è un FabLab, come funziona, quali sono le regole e le attività. Descrizione dei progetti di FabLab in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Digital Fabrication Studio.04_LaserCutting @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
This report offers a synthesis and analysis of several Fab Labs visited during 2011. It's been translated from the French by Jianne Whelthon
French version : http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharefing/tour-dhorizon-des-fab-labs
Japanese version by Yoshiyuki Habishima : http://fr.slideshare.net/FabLabJapan/fablab-overview
Digital revolution 3.0 - THe Rise of FabLabIzumi Aizu
This is the presentation material prepared for the UNESCO Future Forum in Paris, Feb 27, 2013. UNESCO Future Forum, Paris
"Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Societies: Using the Future to Shape Transformative Policies"
I will be on the Panel.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/bureau-of-strategic-planning/themes/anticipation-and-foresight/unesco-future-forums/exploring-the-dynamics-of-knowledge-societies/
As we don't have much time, only the summary of this slide will be presented.
The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and Fab Labs; Pieter van de...Pieter van der Hijden
In the fifties, in many western countries hobby clubs emerged, that shared tools and knowledge. In the eighties, the same happened with computer clubs, sharing a matrix printer or a telephone modem. Now they have a new successor: MILK (made-in-Limerick) labs, Happy Lab Vienna, Protospace Utrecht, Buda Lab Kortrijk, and more generically the Fab Labs, Maker spaces, repair cafés, and hacker spaces. They all focus on making, learning, sharing and empowering.
The popularity of the maker concept has its impact on more and more educational institutes. To motivate their students, to improve their STE(A)M education, many school organise tours to the nearest Fab Lab, promote project activities there or set-up their own Fab Lab embedded in their school. In fact, it is a new trend in social constructivism.
We will shortly introduce you to this new world and reflect on its opportunities and threats for Moodle.
Digital Fabrication Studio.05 _CNC_Milling.Molding.Casting @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Digital Fabrication Studio.06 _3D_PrintingScanning @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Open P2P Design brings open source and peer-to-peer dynamics inside a community-centered design process, in order to have real co-design projects with people and their communities. We can use Open P2P Design for co-designing Open Design processes or commercial or public services with open and peer-to-peer dynamics, starting from communities and involving them inside the design process. We can also use it for analyzing an existing business and opening to collaboration some of its activities, or design new ones in order to start a collaboration with a community of users.
http://dmy-berlin.com/en/festival/2011-2/makerlab/
Digital files and photos of the fabrication and installation of a 56 foot long sculpture of an aluminum rabbit in the Sacramento International Airport.
Artist: Lawrence Argent
Fabrication: Kreysler & Associates
I fab lab in fvg (dall'idea al progetto)Carlo Fonda
Breve rassegna di alcuni concetti base: cos'è un FabLab, come funziona, quali sono le regole e le attività. Descrizione dei progetti di FabLab in Friuli Venezia Giulia.
Digital Fabrication Studio.04_LaserCutting @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
This report offers a synthesis and analysis of several Fab Labs visited during 2011. It's been translated from the French by Jianne Whelthon
French version : http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharefing/tour-dhorizon-des-fab-labs
Japanese version by Yoshiyuki Habishima : http://fr.slideshare.net/FabLabJapan/fablab-overview
Digital revolution 3.0 - THe Rise of FabLabIzumi Aizu
This is the presentation material prepared for the UNESCO Future Forum in Paris, Feb 27, 2013. UNESCO Future Forum, Paris
"Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Societies: Using the Future to Shape Transformative Policies"
I will be on the Panel.
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/bureau-of-strategic-planning/themes/anticipation-and-foresight/unesco-future-forums/exploring-the-dynamics-of-knowledge-societies/
As we don't have much time, only the summary of this slide will be presented.
The use of Moodle in STEM education, maker spaces and Fab Labs; Pieter van de...Pieter van der Hijden
In the fifties, in many western countries hobby clubs emerged, that shared tools and knowledge. In the eighties, the same happened with computer clubs, sharing a matrix printer or a telephone modem. Now they have a new successor: MILK (made-in-Limerick) labs, Happy Lab Vienna, Protospace Utrecht, Buda Lab Kortrijk, and more generically the Fab Labs, Maker spaces, repair cafés, and hacker spaces. They all focus on making, learning, sharing and empowering.
The popularity of the maker concept has its impact on more and more educational institutes. To motivate their students, to improve their STE(A)M education, many school organise tours to the nearest Fab Lab, promote project activities there or set-up their own Fab Lab embedded in their school. In fact, it is a new trend in social constructivism.
We will shortly introduce you to this new world and reflect on its opportunities and threats for Moodle.
Digital Fabrication Studio.05 _CNC_Milling.Molding.Casting @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Digital Fabrication Studio.06 _3D_PrintingScanning @ Aalto Media FactoryMassimo Menichinelli
DIGITAL FABRICATION STUDIO (25438)
The course provides a general understanding on how to design and manufacture products and prototypes in a Fab Lab, using digital fabrication technologies and understanding their features and limits.
Students will learn how information shapes design, manufacturing and collaboration processes and artifacts in a Fab Lab. They will learn how to digitally fabricate a project or how to digitally modify an existing project; students will also learn how to manage, embed and retrieve information about a project. Projects and prototypes developed and manufactured in this course will not be interactive.
The course consists of lectures and a group project to be digitally fabricated, be it a project already designed but not yet realized or be it the modification of an existing project. Every lecture (3 hours) includes time for testing the technologies covered (1 hour) and for developing part of the group project and for receiving feedback about it (1 hour).
http://mlab.taik.fi/studies/courses/course?id=1963
Open P2P Design brings open source and peer-to-peer dynamics inside a community-centered design process, in order to have real co-design projects with people and their communities. We can use Open P2P Design for co-designing Open Design processes or commercial or public services with open and peer-to-peer dynamics, starting from communities and involving them inside the design process. We can also use it for analyzing an existing business and opening to collaboration some of its activities, or design new ones in order to start a collaboration with a community of users.
http://dmy-berlin.com/en/festival/2011-2/makerlab/
Digital files and photos of the fabrication and installation of a 56 foot long sculpture of an aluminum rabbit in the Sacramento International Airport.
Artist: Lawrence Argent
Fabrication: Kreysler & Associates
L'inchiesta giornalista, pubblicata sul mensile "S" n. 96 (2016), sulla vera identità del detenuto eritreo al carcere 'Pagliarelli' di Palermo, considerato il 'generale' del traffico di migranti Medhanie Yehdego Mered e sulla sua rete tra Sudan, Libia e Italia.
FabLab stands for "Fabrication Laboratories". These are centres equipped with 3D printers, laser cutters and all sorts of other digitally controlled equipment. The first one was opened in MIT by Neil Gerschenfeld, professor of Bits and Atoms with a course entitled "How to make (almost) anything". They have now spread across the world including England. This presentation by Jane Keats was given to Leeds and Sheffield inventors clubs.
The real value of open source: ROI and beyondJeffrey McGuire
The slides from my presentation, "The real value of open source: ROI and beyond" from LinuxWochen Austria and Drupal Business Days Vienna 2012. - jam | Jeffrey A. McGuire | Acquia Manager of Community Affairs | jam@acquia.com
Building Installations in Five Days (and a bit) at Ignite London 4Mark Wubben
A talk based on my experiences at the Mediamatic Social RFID Hackers Camp at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam in 2007, 2008 & 2009; as well as the Dev Camp ’10 hosted by Mediamatic itself.
Given at Ignite London 4.
Das «Internet of Things» ist definitiv ein Hype-Thema - immer wieder hört man von innovativen Anwendungen. Erfunden werden diese oft von Bastlern. So entstehen aus Do-it-Yourself-Projekten Open Source Hardware Startups. Die Anwendungen werden mit Raspberry Pi oder Arduino gebaut und mittels Crowdfunding finanziert.
Referent Thomas Amberg zeigte in seinem Referat spannende Produkte, die aus der Open Source Bewegung entstanden sind.
using Open Source Hardware and Rapid Prototyping in Arts OrganisationsBrian Degger
presentation given at Art of the Digital about how organisations could use open source hardware in their organisations based upon what other people are doing.
My presentation for the third day at the Open P2P Design workshop organized with Roger Pitiot at IDAS in Singapore.
http://www.workshop.colab-design.org/
"Open and collaborative design processes. Meta-Design, ontologies and platforms within the Maker Movement"
Doctoral defense @Aalto University 11.11.2020
Custos: Professor Lily Diaz-Kommonen, Aalto University, Department of Media, Aalto Media Lab
Opponent: Professor Elisa Giaccardi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
The emergence of the Maker Movement has taken place in the context of a design practice and research that is now open, peer-to-peer, diffuse, distributed, decentralized; activity-based; meta-designed; ontologically-defined; locally-bounded but globally-networked and community-centered. For many years the author participated and worked in the Maker Movement, with a special focus on its usage of digital platforms and digital fabrication tools for collaboratively designing and manufacturing digital and physical artifacts as Open Design projects. The author’s main focus in practice and research as a meta-designer was in understanding how can participants in distributed systems collaboratively work together through tools and platforms for the designing and managing of collaborative processes. The main research question of this dissertation is: How can we support and integrate the research and practice of meta-designers in analyzing, designing and sharing open and collaborative design and making processes within open, peer-to-peer and distributed systems?
Press release: https://www.aalto.fi/en/events/defense-in-the-field-of-new-media-msc-massimo-menichinelli
Video: https://youtu.be/ZYSCcIG0Q6k
Dissertation: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-64-0091-4
Research On And Through Design With Open, Distributed And Collaborative Desig...Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli
"Research On And Through Design With Open, Distributed And Collaborative Design Processes Within The Maker Movement"
08/11/2019
https://www.designsociety.org/939/Symposium+on+Design+Theory+and+Innovation
Platforms, Networks And Impact Of Open, Distributed And Collaborative Design ...Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli
"Platforms, Networks And Impact Of Open, Distributed And Collaborative Design And Making Processes"
Tongji University - Shanghai
19/11/2019
The Decentralization Turns In Design: An Exploration Through The Maker Moveme...Massimo Menichinelli
Massimo Menichinelli
Priscilla Ferronato
"The Decentralization Turns In Design: An Exploration Through The Maker Movement"
DeSForm19 - MIT Design Lab
10/10/2019
The challenges posed by the complexity of our times requires the Design discipline to understand the many complex relationships behind the social, business, technology and territory dimensions of each project. Such nature of complex systems lays not only inside design projects, but also inside the design processes that generate them, and the ability of organizing them through meta-design approaches is becoming strategic. Since the turn of the century, the design discipline has increasingly moved its scope from single users to local and online communities, from isolated projects to system of solutions. This shift has brought researchers and practitioners to investigate tools and strategies to enable mass- scale interactions by adopting several models and tools coming from software development and web-based technologies: Open Source, P2P, DDD (Diffuse, Distributed, and Decentralized) systems. This influence has matured over the years, and if we observed in the past how such systemic models can be applied in the design practice (part 1), we are facing now a new phase where Design will have an increasing role in enabling such systems through the analysis, visualization and design of their collaborative tools, platforms, processes and organizations (part 2). This scope falls into the Meta-Design domain, where designers build environments for the collaborative design of open processes and their resulting organizations (part 3). In this paper, we address this phenomena by elaborating the Open Meta-Design framework (part 4), that provides a way for designing open, collaborative and distributed processes (including those in the professional design domain). The paper positions the framework among current meta-design and design approaches and develops its features of modeling, analysis, management and visualization of processes. This framework is based on four dimensions: conceptual (describing the philosophy, context and limitations of the approach), data (describing the ontology of design processes), design (visualizing designing processes) and software (managing the connections between the ontology and the visualization, the data and design dimensions). We believe that such a framework could potentially facilitate the participation and the creation of open, collaborative and distributed processes, enabling therefore more relevant interactions for communities. As a conclusion, the paper provides a roadmap for developing and testing the Open Meta-Design framework, and therefore evaluating its relevance in supporting complex projects (part 5).
Transforming Brand Perception and Boosting Profitabilityaaryangarg12
In today's digital era, the dynamics of brand perception, consumer behavior, and profitability have been profoundly reshaped by the synergy of branding, social media, and website design. This research paper investigates the transformative power of these elements in influencing how individuals perceive brands and products and how this transformation can be harnessed to drive sales and profitability for businesses.
Through an exploration of brand psychology and consumer behavior, this study sheds light on the intricate ways in which effective branding strategies, strategic social media engagement, and user-centric website design contribute to altering consumers' perceptions. We delve into the principles that underlie successful brand transformations, examining how visual identity, messaging, and storytelling can captivate and resonate with target audiences.
Methodologically, this research employs a comprehensive approach, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. Real-world case studies illustrate the impact of branding, social media campaigns, and website redesigns on consumer perception, sales figures, and profitability. We assess the various metrics, including brand awareness, customer engagement, conversion rates, and revenue growth, to measure the effectiveness of these strategies.
The results underscore the pivotal role of cohesive branding, social media influence, and website usability in shaping positive brand perceptions, influencing consumer decisions, and ultimately bolstering sales and profitability. This paper provides actionable insights and strategic recommendations for businesses seeking to leverage branding, social media, and website design as potent tools to enhance their market position and financial success.
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
White wonder, Work developed by Eva TschoppMansi Shah
White Wonder by Eva Tschopp
A tale about our culture around the use of fertilizers and pesticides visiting small farms around Ahmedabad in Matar and Shilaj.
Dive into the innovative world of smart garages with our insightful presentation, "Exploring the Future of Smart Garages." This comprehensive guide covers the latest advancements in garage technology, including automated systems, smart security features, energy efficiency solutions, and seamless integration with smart home ecosystems. Learn how these technologies are transforming traditional garages into high-tech, efficient spaces that enhance convenience, safety, and sustainability.
Ideal for homeowners, tech enthusiasts, and industry professionals, this presentation provides valuable insights into the trends, benefits, and future developments in smart garage technology. Stay ahead of the curve with our expert analysis and practical tips on implementing smart garage solutions.
Top 5 Indian Style Modular Kitchen DesignsFinzo Kitchens
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Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
4. A craft project
“This exact material (atoms) and my
perception and experience (bits)”
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellycdb/6168020183/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wood
5. An industrial project
“A standardized material (atoms) described
only by numerical values (bits)”
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:KUKA
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Polyethylene
7. A digital fabrication (fabbing) project
Source: http://web.media.mit.edu/~amitz/Amit_Zoran_home_page/the_freeD.html
“... and I will probably design and make my
own tools” [metadesign]
8. A digital fabrication (fabbing) project
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TxHiTjapTqg
“... and I will probably design and make my
own tools” [metadesign]
9. Bits + atoms = information + materials
Developing projects at the intersections
between bits and atoms
Source: http://fablab.waag.org/node/3847
10. Bits and atoms – two directions
From atoms to bits
(getting data -
representation)
From bits to atoms
(build the data -
representation)
{
{
11. Bits and atoms: an application
As an individual sits in the chair, information about the fow of forces from his
or her weight is depicted on visualization screens throughout the space.
Source: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/16/view/20419/audi-r18-ultra-chair.html
http://vimeo.com/40877183
12. Digital Fabrication and bits+atoms: CBA @ MIT
… not the center for rapid prototyping: “investigating the
interface between computer science and physical science”
Source: http://cba.mit.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gershenfeld
13. Fab.01: Machines attached to a computer
1950s: frst computer numerical control (CNC)
machines, attached to computers
Source: http://www.google.com/patents?id=rRpqAAAAEBAJ&printsec=drawing&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
14. Fab.02: Machines that make machines
2005: RepRapa (open source) 3D printer that replicates
itself (and that generated an ecosystem of 3D printers)
Source: http://www.reprap.org/
15. Fab.03: Materials with embedded code
Materials with an embedded code that help
shaping them.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego
16. Fab.03: Materials with embedded code
North Carolina State University: a simple way to convert two-dimensional
patterns into three-dimensional (3-D) objects using only light.
Source: http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/wmsdickeyfolding/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKRWZG67dtQ
17. Fab.03: Voxels + Digital Material Fabricator
In the digital domain, a 3D object is composed voxels. Each voxel location is
occupied (1) or not (0), so 3D space is digital (discrete) not analog (continuous).
Source: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/Rapid_Assembler
http://youtu.be/-szjlhVMGh4
18. Fab.04: Materials with embedded program
Materials that have code, data and programs
for self-manufacturing / auto-assembly.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosome
19. Fab.04: Materials with embedded program
Materials that have code, data and programs
for self-manufacturing / auto-assembly.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jml8CFBWcDs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PSwhTGFMxs
20. Fab.04: Materials with embedded program
Materials that have code, data and programs
for self-manufacturing / auto-assembly.
Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/skylar_tibbits_can_we_make_things_that_make_themselves.html
http://youtu.be/emW1TQ290ec?t=2m10s http://www.sjet.us/SJET-MIT.html
21. Fab.04: Materials with embedded program
Materials that have code, data and programs
for self-manufacturing / auto-assembly.
Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/3006145/mits-new-self-assembly-lab-building-paradigm-shift-4-d-manufacturing
22. Fab.04: coming to the Design world, soon
Even IDEO is already researching how to manufacture products starting from
bacteria that create shapes through self-organization.
Source: http://www.fastcompany.com/biomimicry/training-bacteria-to-grow-consumer-goods
23. Fab.04: coming to the Design world, soon
[…] spreading a pattern on a responsive material to control how it deforms
when exposed to a stimulus [...]
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/plant-mimicking-gel-could-morph-into-any-3d-shape.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7MyjOTynK0
24. Fab.04: Programmable Matter
Researchers at Harvard and MIT have reshaped the landscape of programmable
matter by devising self-folding sheets that rely on the ancient art of origami.
Source: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/06/shape-shifting-sheets-automatically-fold-into-multiple-shapes/
http://youtu.be/Pg8VAVWkz3k
25. Fab.04: DNA bricks
Complex 3D structures by using short synthetic DNA strands (“DNA bricks”). Bricks
with hundreds of distinct sequences self-assemble into prescribed 3D shapes.
Source: http://m.sciencemag.org/content/338/6111/1177.abstract
http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/101/ http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpage/408/
26. Fabbing: not just learning from biology...
A new bioprinter developed at a hackerspace can print living cells for less than
the cost of an iPod touch.
Source: http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-BioPrinter/
http://www.wired.com/design/2013/01/diy-bio-printer/
27. But coming back to Fab 1.0 / 2.0 in 2012
Laser cutting CNC milling
3D printing CNC milling
Digital sewing /
embroidery
machine
Vinyl cutter 3D Scanner
Electronics
This is what you usually can fnd in a FabLab, at the moment.
Source: adapted from http://fablab.waag.org/machines
28. At the peak of enthusiasm, far from productivity
3D Printing has been steadily climbing to the peak of 'Infated Expectations'
over the past few years and now sits on top, poised for the drop.
Source: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/1582-3D-Printing-Hits-the-Peak-of-the-Gartner-Hype-Cycle-for-Emerging-Technologies.html
29. Democratization of Digital Fabrication
“Hello, I am Origo. I am a 3D printer for ten
year olds.”
Source: http://www.origo3dprinting.com/
30. … and Digital Fabrication became famous
Digital Fabrication / distributed manufacturing as a
viable tool / strategy for business.
Source: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/01/ff_newrevolution/
http://econ.st/tnr97E
31. And build your own machine...
Not only cutting and printing, also weaving...
Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669627/holy-crap-this-mit-robot-might-one-day-weave-a-building
http://youtu.be/JgeFLGfvrEM
32. And build your own machine...
Not only cutting and printing, also bending...
Source: http://www.core77.com/blog/digital_fabrication/add_pensas_diwire_bender_to_your_diyer_arsenal_22383.asp
http://vimeo.com/41425580
33. … between digital and hand work...
HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA is a human 3D printing machine that allows the user to
tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical.
Source: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665529/a-hybrid-machine-joins-3-d-printing-and-human-handicraft-video#3
http://vimeo.com/32538081
34. … between digital and hand work...
A frame and a tool: the frame is positioned manually by the user and can adjust the
position of the tool to correct for error in the user's coarse positioning.
Source: http://www.alecrivers.com/positioncorrectingtools/
http://youtu.be/-UmL7xZZSUk
36. A space that democratizes digital fabrication
Exploring collaboratively the interactions between bits
and atoms, rather than making (almost) anything...
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/protospace/5199454304/
37. Conditions for being a FabLab
Conditions:
* public access to the fab lab
* support and subscribe to the fab lab charter
* share a common set of tools and processes
* participate in the global fab lab network (no isolation)
The Fab Lab conformity rating is a code that describes how
closely a lab meets the conditions for use of the Fab Lab label.It
is a quick summary of the lab "now",can change over time.The
conformity rating is self-assessed or community-assessed.
Source: http://wiki.fablab.is/wiki/ConditionsForFabLabLabel
38. Fab Charter
* Mission: fab labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for
individuals to tools for digital fabrication.
* Access: you can use the fab lab to make almost anything (that doesn't hurt anyone); you must
learn to do it yourself, and you must share use of the lab with other uses and users
* Education: training in the fab lab is based on doing projects and learning from peers; you're
expected to contribute to documentation and instruction
* Responsibility: you're responsible for:
* safety: knowing how to work without hurting people or machines
* cleaning up: leaving the lab cleaner than you found it
* operations: assisting with maintaining, repairing, and reporting on tools, supplies, and incidents
* Secrecy: designs and processes developed in fab labs must remain available for individual use
although intellectual property can be protected however you choose
* Business: commercial activities can be incubated in fab labs but they must not confict with open
access, they should grow beyond rather than within the lab, and they are expected to beneft the
inventors, labs, and networks that contribute to their success.
August 30, 2007
Source: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/charter/
39. Fab Charter (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The Fab Charter is always visible in a FabLab
Source: http://fablab.waag.org/archive/fabcharter
40. FabN : the yearly meeting
Every year in August in a different country:
this year New Zealand, next year Japan.
Source: http://www.fab8nz.com/
41. Fab Academy
The Fab Academy began as an outreach project from the
CBA, and has since spread to Fab Labs around the world.
Source: http://fabacademy.org/
42. The International Fab Lab Association
On the 4th of July 2011, the International Fab Lab Association was established.
It is an association with members, a Board and an Academic Council, etc.
Source: http://fablabinternational.org/
http://fablabinternational.blogspot.com/
43. Fab Lab Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Fablab Amsterdam is hosted by Waag Society, a non proft organisation
active in the feld of social innovation through creative technology.
Source: http://fablab.waag.org/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37873897@N06/4973326149/
44. Mini Fab Lab (Utrecht, Netherlands)
A FabLab in your room for 3500 €.
Source: http://www.minifablab.nl/
45. Mobile Fab Lab
In USA, Europe, South Africa...
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_fab_lab
46. Fab Lab Afghanistan (Jalalabad, Afghanistan)
Source: http://www.fablab.af/
Not only in USA or Europe ...
47. Fab Lab Afghanistan: FabFi, a project
An open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-
the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless ethernet signals.
Source: http://fabfi.fabfolk.com/
48. FabLab Barcelona (Spain)
From the Institute for Advanced Architecture
of Catalonia (IAAC).
Source: http://fablabbcn.org/
49. FabLab Barcelona: FabLab House, a project
The Fab Lab House is a self-suffcient dwelling produced
to take part in the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010.
Source: http://www.fablabhouse.com/
50. A FabLab and its local context
A city with a long tradition of organic / generative
architecture and experimental building technologies.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casa_Batlló
51. Green FabLab Barcelona
A fablab that researches sustainable
technologies with and for digital fabrication.
Source: http://greenfablab.org/
52. The future: Barcelona FabCity
“Toni Vives [...], Head of the Department the Urban Habitat in the Offce of the Mayor of
Barcelona and member of the IAAC Board of Directors, presented the city’s plan to become a
“Fab City” with multiple Fab Labs in neighborhoods around Barcelona.”
Source: http://www.iaacblog.com/blog/2011/iaac-at-fab-7-in-lima-peru/
53. Fab Lab Brand: no trademark
So far, and except some countries (Netherlands) where
is managed by the local association.
Source: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/logos/index.html
54. Fab Lab and Brand: a possible strategy?
Do you recognize this brand? It tried to open a FabLab in
Madrid to show how it cares about creativity.
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/journal-du-design/3895643669/
55. Absolut Lab (Madrid, Spain)
A huge FabLab sponsored by Absolut Vodka, that
was closed few months after its opening...
Source:http://www.franciscosegarra.com/absolut-lab-proyecto-interiorismo/
57. A space for DIY projects
The frst value offer is a space for people to
develop (and learn) their own projects.
Source: Scott Beale / Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/133324021/
58. No idea for a project? Hack one!
Source: http://www.ikeahackers.net/
IKEA products are cheap enough, there are many
options and components that can be reused.
59. Generative Design
Generative Design projects need digital fabrication
technologies for being manufactured.
Source: http://www.n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/
60. Physical Data Visualization
Digital Fabrication can be used for rendering visible
and physical intangible data and concepts.
Source: http://www.realitat.com/microsonic/
61. Physical Data Visualization
Digital Fabrication can be used for rendering visible
and physical intangible data and concepts.
Source: http://www.realitat.com/microsonic/
62. Mass Customization
Mass customization can be enabled in an easier way with digital
fabrication technologies (and places for interacting with customers).
Source: http://nikeid.nike.com/nikeid/
63. Custom Prosthetics
Building customized prosthetics, at home!
Source: http://youtu.be/WoZ2BgPVtA0
http://www.core77.com/blog/digital_fabrication/wrex_3d_printed_magic_arms_and_the_future_of_pediatric_prosthetics_23101.asp
65. Shorter and more sustainable supply chains
Visualizing and redesigning supply chains,
through open source and open data software.
Source: http://www.sourcemap.com
66. Instead, what cannot we do?
The rise of 3D printed weapons, but you cannot build
them in a FabLab (it's against the Fab Charter).
Source: http://defensedistributed.com/
67. Instead, what cannot we do?
The rise of 3D printed weapons, but you cannot build
them in a FabLab (it's against the Fab Charter).
Source: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/08/3d-weapons/
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/08/rapid-fire-rapid-prototypes/
68. Fabbing and Media
Digital Fabrication can be used in different
media: photography of failed 3D prints.
Source: http://cunicode.com/beautiful-failures/
69. Fabbing and Media
Digital Fabrication can be used in different
media: video of failed 3D prints.
Source: http://cunicode.com/beautiful-failures/ http://vimeo.com/42537804
70. Fabbing and Media
Digital Fabrication can be used in different
media: book of failed 3D prints.
Source: http://cunicode.com/beautiful-failures/ http://www.blurb.com/books/3248225
71. Same project, different media
Digital Fabrication can be also thought as a medium for
converting one project to a different format.
Source: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120820-theo-jansen-3d-printed-strandbeests-here-are-the-lego-and-bamboo-version.html
http://youtu.be/HSKyHmjyrkA
72. Same project, different media
Digital Fabrication can be also thought as a medium for
converting one project to a different format.
Source: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120820-theo-jansen-3d-printed-strandbeests-here-are-the-lego-and-bamboo-version.html
http://youtu.be/pZr-zyHRBn4
73. Same project, different media
Digital Fabrication can be also thought as a medium for
converting one project to a different format.
Source: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120820-theo-jansen-3d-printed-strandbeests-here-are-the-lego-and-bamboo-version.html
74. Same project, different media
Digital Fabrication can be also thought as a medium for
converting one project to a different format.
Source: http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120820-theo-jansen-3d-printed-strandbeests-here-are-the-lego-and-bamboo-version.html
http://youtu.be/NfutNEauniE
76. Hackerspaces / Makerspaces
Hackerspaces are open community labs with machine shops, workshops
and/or studios where hackers can share resources and knowledge.
Source: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces
78. Sewing Café
A coworking space with sewing and
embroidery machine (usually pay per hour)
Source: http://www.thesewingcafe.co.uk/
79. Techshop (USA)
A network of commercial spaces with many tools and
technologies and paid support services (only in USA).
Source: http://techshop.ws/
80. Techshop (USA)
Ford employees who invent something that the company ends up patenting
receive a free three-month membership to TechShop.
Source: http://www.wired.com/design/2012/05/ford-techshop/
81. 100k Garages (USA)
100kGarages is a place for people who have designs (or just ideas) to connect
with digital fabricators ("Fabbers") who can help make these ideas.
Source: http://100kgarages.com/
82. Maker Factory
The same service as 100kgarages, but open source …
Source: http://makerfactory.com/
83. Seoul (South Korea)
No FabLabs or similar places, but many small manufacturers that
will produce you small-scale series very quickly.
84. Living Labs (USA, Europa)
Spaces for co-designing products and services with
users... not necessarily with digital fabrication.
Source: http://www.openlivinglabs.eu/
85. National Additive Manufacturing Innovation
Institute (USA)
The institute will ensure that the U.S. manufacturing sector is
a key pillar in an enduring and thriving economy.
Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/16/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-new-public-private-partners
86. Anywhere...
A vending machine with 2 3D printers at Virginia
Tech’s College of Engineering.
Source: http://youtu.be/c1MhNlGi-5I