The document discusses the Forge of North-South Adaptations project, which aims to help communities adapt to climate change impacts through distributed manufacturing and sharing of open source solutions. The project will document prototypes aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals and conduct workshops to spread these solutions across French-speaking Africa and France. The first wave of workshops is underway in West Africa. The project seeks to connect cities and makerspaces to collaboratively address resilience challenges through open, cooperative prototyping based on digital commons and networking support.

1. The Forge of North-South Adaptations
Make, learn, share solutions to the effects of climate change

2. Our belief
- We must now adapt to the effects of climate change
- We will have to do it in the certainty of uncertainty
- Let's learn the lessons of the mobilization around the
coronavirus crisis, and the proof by making
- It is necessary to create and hand round solutions for
unforeseeable needs or even crises, in cascade.
- Let's spread objects without moving their atoms to
collapse the flows of matter and deal with logistical
disruptions.
- Let's legally share solutions instead of facing each
other tomorrow in scarcity

3. Our fundamentals
- The digital commons can be remanufacturable and
iterable object designs..
- The distributed manufacturing of open objects allows
the local adaptation of plans, and the exploration of
new economies (open hardware)
- Prototypes are not enough: we must transmit the
methods of this “new digital”.
- Fablabs and places of makers know the engineering of
these objects, and know how to pass it on to as many
people as possible
- Cultural pluralism and the inclusion of as many people
as possible in this process are keys to a peaceful future
- Transfer these practices from the places of “making” to the
territories through open documentation.
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https://www.forgecc.org

4. The project
● Document prototypes according to a common semantics adapted to the SDGs
and the dissemination of educational forms in Africa and France.
● Identify projects whose documentation already allows replicability and use
the project to promote these opportunities to cities.
● Federate French-speaking fablabs in 9 African countries and France around
the SDGs.
● Disseminate the methods and possibilities allowed by fablabs to make them
usable outside fablabs. Accompaniment of groups in educational
establishments, associations, companies, collectives, etc.
● Bring cities and fablabs closer together in order to develop their collaboration
to achieve the SDGs and fuel a culture of resilience through open cooperative
prototyping, based on digital commons and a support network.

5. Where are we now ?
● Initial documentation grid produced with a first version, operational online as of April
15, 2022.
● Development of the process prior to the launch of three waves of workshops, online
adaptation for operational testing on the first 10 workshops.
● Recruitment of first fablab testers: completed on March 25, 2022
● First wave of workshops underway and funded on West Africa.
● Documentation of the first workshops, linked to free workshops carried out on the
field and to manufacturing documentation.
● Launch of a second wave of workshops at the end of September 2022

6. The digital platform of the project
https://www.forgecc.org
● A platform providing commons
● Workshops all over the great continent
● A process transforming funding into a common good
that can be used by everyone to train people by
“replaying” workshops
● Partners representing 700 French-speaking places
● An unprecedented corpus of reusable standard
documents
● Data, documents in CC-By-SA, actors who connect,
prototypes in line with the SDGs and the resilience
challenges of ADEME territories.
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7. First wave of workshops launched in
West Africa: they are here!

8. Global operational retroplanning
● February 2023: All workshops financed, carried out, documented, shared, even
republished
● November 2022: Validation copil 3 and launch of wave 3 (10 workshops)
● September 2022: Validation copil 2 and launch of wave 2 (10 workshops)
● End of August 2022: ADEME interim report (50% of the grant executed)
● July 2022: Launch of wave 1 (test): 10 to 14 workshops - execution.
● June 2022: Validation of the first candidate workshops for funding by the CC Lab
● April-May 2022: test of the https://www.forgecc.org platform for the framework process
● March-April 2022: Recruitment of fablab testers and exchanges to develop the process -
creation of the digital platform.
● February-March 2022: Creation of the ex-nihilo activity and initial documentation grid -
choice of tool following benchmark on commons platforms.
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9. Braillerap Cameroun
A parallel operation, but going through the process of the Forge of adaptations:
Braillerap Cameroon
Faire, apprendre, partager des
imprimantes brailles open-source.
8 machines, deux types d’ateliers,
3 villes : Yaounde, Bertoua,
Baffousam.

11. And if…
● The project lasted 2 to 3 more years to build a corpus of 6 application
prototypes per ODD to reach 102 organized workshops, prototypes and
forms?
● We used the documentary corpus and partnerships and positive externalities to
accelerate the transfer of practice from fablabs to other actors (regions for
example)
● We experimented with what is happening within the core scope of the
project (open-source economic models, adaptation and non-execution of plans,
remunerative models of commons of general interest?)
● We were going to seek together the breath of two more years (2023-2024)?

12. About the Climate Change Lab
The Climate Change Lab currently revolves around 3 axes:
● Distributed manufacturing and local adaptation on the basis of digital
commons to collapse the flows of matter and recompose with local atoms and
neurons solutions in local resilience: the North-South Adaptation Forge.
● The contribution to the redesign of imaginaries to make the world after:
interventions on cooperation, foresight, editorial line of events and public debates
(for example on Low Tech).
● Research and development in trial and error for prototypes and forms
accelerating this redesign: the Sylvestre Orchester project for example.

13. The Forge of North-South
Adaptations
THANKS TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS
ADEME, AIMF, Orange Foundation, French
Network of Fablabs, ReFFAO, Universcience,
North-South Makers… and to fablabs and
workshop participants!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !