presentation Fab Labs and Maker Culture: An Industrial Transitions Movement? at Mastodon #SummerSchool, August 2021. see the video on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/585961357
2. Protospace, Utrecht, the Netherlands
November 2014
photo Cindy Kohtala
(I) my research topic
(II) industrial transitions
as an analysis frame /
current study
3. Trashlab repair event
January 2014, Kaupunkiverstas
photo Cindy Kohtala
(III) discussion / Q&A:
your input
… is the rationale
clear?
… does it sound
convincing/useful to
potential funders?
and any other
comments and questions
5. Factory 2.0
DIY 2.0
Web 2.0
commons-
based
peer
production
material
digital
digital
manufacturing
distributed,
personal
distributed,
personalized
prosumption
distributed
hardware
distributed
software
Kohtala, Cindy. 2015. “Addressing Sustainability in Research on Distributed Production: An
Integrated Literature Review.” Journal of Cleaner Production 106: 654–668.
6.
7. Kohtala, Cindy, Sampsa Hyysalo, and Jack Whalen. 2020. “A Taxonomy of Users’ Active Design Engagement
in the 21st Century.” Design Studies 67: 27–54.
8. Open Source Beehives at Valldaura Green Fab Lab, Barcelona
July 2014
photo Cindy Kohtala
what is
designed?
objects...
10. experiment with
shredding waste
plastic and forming new
3D printing filament,
by Usinette
Made in Kallio, Helsinki
May 2013
photo Cindy Kohtala
what is
designed?
new materials
and
processes...
12. what is
designed?
new ways to
self-organize
and self-govern
FAB14, Toulouse
July 2018
photo Cindy Kohtala
13. Koppelting ‘The Great Gathering
of the Commons’ festival
Fablab Amersfoort
the Netherlands
August 2016
photo Cindy Kohtala
“The New
Industrial
Revolution”
14.
15. Open Source Circular Economy (OSCE) Days Helsinki
June 2016, Kääntöpöytä
photo Cindy Kohtala
“The New
(Sustainable? Just?)
Industrial Revolution”
16. FAB15, El Gouna, Egypt
July 2019
photo Cindy Kohtala
how is maker culture
institutionalizing?
who are fab labs
aligning with?
22. Industrial restructuring
movements
Industrial access
movements
Industrial
opposition
movements
Hess, p 39:
The intended outcome of the
alternative industrial movements
is the transformation of the
industrial regime, but in the cases
I studied the more common
outcome is incorporation and
transformation…. Often there is
also a transformation of the
design of the alternative products
that makes them less alternative
and more complementary to the
technologies and products of the
industrial regime.