The document outlines a roadmap for the evolution of Fab Labs and discusses their role in sustainability, self-fabrication, and smart cities. The 4 stages of the Fab Lab roadmap are: 1) workshops with machines, 2) Fab Labs that can produce other Fab Labs, 3) digital assemblers at the microscale level, and 4) programmable matter. It also discusses how Fab Labs can help make recycling, collective design, and informal settlements more sustainable through approaches like Green Fab Labs that focus on local production and sharing of objects, machines, food, raw materials and energy.

1. High Tech Humanism
from Fab Labs to Fab Cities
Tomas Diez
Fab Lab Barcelona

2. Education
Economy
Sustainability

4. The Fab Lab roadmap:
1.0 Workshop with machines
2.0 A Fab Lab makes another Fab Lab. Machines that
make machines.
3.0 Digital assemblers at microscale level
4.0 Programmable matter

23. Material
to make
another
house

24. Self-Fabrication

25. recycling and
problem solving

26. Afuera Caso 4: Sra. Juana Mejía

27. Are the slums
digital?

28. Do the slums have DNA?

29. SISTEMA CONSTRUCTIVO PROTOTIPO HELDER CORREIA
Teoría de Teolinda Bolívar
50% de la población urbana venezolana,, unos
Trabajo de Investigación
1993
once millones de
personas, viven en barrios pobres
auto-producidos por sus
ocupantes
JUEGO “CUBO HABITABLE” de FABIO CAPRA & MILEIDY EXPOSITO
sobre el PROTOTIPO DE SHARON 1000GROM (TODAS LAS TIPOLGOGIAS)
Juego

30. Informalism
Low tech + High Tech
Self-Fabrication 2.0

31. Recycling Fab Lab House material

32. Collective Design

33. Parametrization

34. Prototyping

35. Fabrication

36. Low tech + High tech

37. Assembly

38. Last minute assembly

43. A Fab Lab here

44. DIGITAL SLUMS

45. Information as part of our
reality. From devices to
cities. Smart cities by smart
citizens

54. 5 Inputs
5 Outputs
CAN bus protocol
DIY Electronics
Arduino based
DATA IN
DATA IN DATA IN
DATA OUT DATA OUT
Global Workshop / DATA OUT DATA IN DATA IN
DESIGN NETWORK
DATA OUT DATA OUT
Information BEHAVIOR AND
Prototyping behavior PROTOCOLS
DATA IN
DATA OUT
DATA IN
DATA OUT
FOR AN URBAN
STRATEGIES
SIMULATION TOOL
DATA IN DATA IN
DATA OUT DATA OUT
DATA IN DATA IN
DATA OUT DATA OUT
DATA IN DATA IN
DATA OUT DATA OUT

60. Naturalization of the
technology

65. Energy and sustainability
in Fab Labs. Green Fab
Labs: make your own
objects, machines, food,
raw materials, energy and
share them.

66. GREEN
FAB LAB

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