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[12.26.2011]

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Fab Academy starts January 18! If you are starting a fab lab, want your fab lab gurus to learn the digital fabrication tools and processes that we practice in the network, or have students who want to learn to make (almost) anything, Fab Academy classes run from January 18 to May 30, 2012. The deadline for application has been extended to January 11. Please see: http://fabacademy.org/

Fab Boot Camp is scheduled for January 9-18, 2011. This is a 10-day, intensive introductory course for new fab lab managers and users. Participants will learn the basics of the tools, capabilities and processes used in network as well as some lab management and sustainability practices. Participating labs: Vestmannaeyjar, Barcelona, Lyngen, Lorain County, Incite-Focus, Nairobi and Amsterdam. For agenda and contact info for participating fab labs please see : http://fabacademy.org/

Fab Boot Camp for Russian innovators was held in December in two fab lab locations: Barcelona and Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. The gurus for the sessions: Tomas Diez, Luciano Betoldi, Mercedes Manes, Frosti Gíslason, and Dan Meyer (with help from Rabiah and Christian), were awesome!

Nairobi Fab Lab is introducing their new website! Please see: http://fablab.uonbi.or.ke/

Fab Lab is going to Davos, Switzerland next month to demonstrate lab capabilities during the World Economic Forum. (!!!)

FAB* Manchester, part of FutureEverything Manchester, 16-19 May 2012, seeks to bring together all of the digital manufacturing community in Europe with a view to establishing an exchange network among EU Fab Labs. This will be your chance to showcase and discuss what you’re all about at the UK’s leading festival of digital culture. We are seeking a crowd-sourced programme with contributions from any and all labs all over Europe.To submit an expression of interest or suggest a topic for presentation simply fill out the expression of interest form at http://bit.ly/eufabsummit. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - Friday 27th January 2012 - 12 noon. Contact: Peter Troxler, […].

One important addition!

Save those dates! FAB8, the annual fab lab Academic Symposium and Workshops will be held in Wellington, New Zealand August 22 – 28, 2012. The lead host is Massey University, the Institute of Design for Industry and Environment at the College of Creative Arts. Start fund raising now!

Happy Holidays and best wishes to all for a FABulous 2012!

This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of Fab Foundation

International Fab Lab Association
Newsletter – December 2011 [14.12.2011]
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[Mentioning FabWorks, by Fab Lab Sevilla, the event and the book]

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Here is our December Newsletter. We will inform you about what is happening in our association and abroad and how you can participate. Feel free to forward it further.

Contents:

·From the board

·Digital Manufacturers Unite!

·FABulous News

·Reading and watching

·Upcoming events

·Colophon

From the board

In our board meeting via Skype on December 12th 2011 we discussed again our website (coming soon!), our contribution to the FutureEverything Festival 2012 (see Digital Manufacturers Unite!) and our intentions to spread the Fab Lab word in international communities, e.g. on learning/education as well as some governance issues.

Our next board meeting has been scheduled for January 9th 2012. We will send you our January Newsletter one week later.

Season’s greetings and best wishes for 2012!

Picture of the month [november’s]

The picture in the November issue of our Newsletter was the bronze statue of Amida Buddha (height 13 m), which stands on the grounds of Kotokuin Temple in Kamakura, Japan. The friendly and creative city of Kamakura (less than one hour by train from Tokyo center) houses not only the second tallest bronze Buddha statue in Japan, but also the first Japanese Fab Lab. That is the link we asked for.

The Kamakura Fab Lab is housed in a small and beautiful traditional Japanese house. The crew is full of energy and creativity. When in 2013 the Fab community will travel all the way to Kamakura to celebrate Fab9, they might be surprised by finding not only a Fab Lab but also a Fab City there.

Our association finally got its bank and PayPal account. Now you no longer have to wait sending us your money J. We urgently want to pay off a loan for notary and sworn translator (constitution) and need money to pay our expenses. Please, consider a generous payment to cover:

* Your membership fee for 2011 – you have no obligations to pay a membership fee for 2011, but still paying let’s say EUR 20 for 2011 is greatly appreciated!

* Your membership fee for 2012 – this is compulsory, the amount is EUR 20 per person; if paying is a problem, please contact our treasurer Betty Barrett

* Any additional gifts, especially to cover the initial costs of establishing our association.

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Digital Manufacturers Unite!

Join the European Fab Summit in Manchester UK in May 2012

FAB-✱ Manchester seeks to bring together all of the digital manufacturing community in Europe with a view to establishing an exchange network among EU FabLabs. This will be your chance to showcase and discuss what you’re all about in Manchester’s incredible historic venues, Victoria Baths and the Museum of Science and Industry, at the UK’s leading festival of digital culture. We are seeking a crowd-sourced programme with contributions from any and all labs all over Europe.

FutureEverything takes place in Manchester UK from 16-19 May 2011. This annual festival brings every year thousands of visitors to Manchester UK. It brings them cutting-edge art, music and ideas from where technology meets creativity. It scans the horizon of art, technology, society and the environment. FAB-✱ Manchester will run as part of the annual festival alongside the main conference and the established Handmade Digital Craft event.

Our Association, together with Fab Lab Manchester, will become partner of the 2012 FutureEverything Festival that takes place in Manchester UK from 16-19 May 2011 for FAB-✱ Manchester.

To submit an expression of interest or suggest a topic for presentation simply fill out the expression of interest form at http://bit.ly/eufabsummit. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS - Friday 27th January 2012 - 12 noon. Contact: Peter Troxler, […].

FABulous News

·Steve Gallagher from Fab Lab Appleton WI, USA, is our hundredth member! Welcome, Steve, and Congratulations!

·In November we welcomed three new Fab Labs: Fab Lab Grenoble, France (planned), Fab Lab Marymount School New York, USA (CCAC); Fab Lab Ehove Career Center, Milan, Ohio, USA (AAAB ).

·Our congratulations for Fab Lab Leon, Spain, for its recent AAAA rating. It brings the total number of Fab Labs rated AAAA to 11.

More details can be found on the official list of Fab Labs at http://wiki.fablab.is/wiki/Portal:Labs.

Reading and watching

·FABWORKS; Diseño y Fabricación Digital para la Arquitectura; Docencia, Investigación y Transferencia; Manuel Gutiérrez de Rueda García, José Pérez de Lama Halcón, Narciso Vázquez Carretero, Percy Durand Neyra (editors); Universidad de Sevilla, 2011. Free download of cover (2MB) and full text (72MB) / http://htca.us.es/blogs/fabworks/fabworks-libro/

·Design Thinking for Educators; Design Team Riverdale Country School and IDEO; 2011; free download (94 pages, 20 MB) via http://www.designthinkingforeducators.com/.

·Fab Lab Business Models; Presentation to the first Artilect Fab Lab Conference; Toulouse, France, October 2011; Peter Troxler; 2011; free download (8 pages, 1 MB) via http://square-1.eu/fab-lab-business-modelling

Upcoming events

* 15 December 2011: Sevilla (Spain): Symposium on Digital Design and Fabrication for Architecture; http://htca.us.es/blogs/fabworks

* 9-18 January 2012: Winter bootcamp in various locations; crash course in Fab Lab tools and processes; coordination[at]fabacademy.org.

* 18 January 2012: start of Fab Academy; http://tinyurl.com/d7j4bfr

* 16-19 May 2012: Manchester UK: Future Everything Festival; http://futureeverything.org/festival/

* 18-24 June 2012: Bootcamp in various locations; Fab Lab management and installation; coordination[at]fabacademy.org.

* August 2012: Fab8 in New Zealand

Statistics

Our association has 100 members (individual persons). If you know people interested in becoming a member, let them fill in the form you find on http://fablabinternational.org.

There are now 109 Fab Labs. Please, check your ratings!

Colophon

This Newsletter is sent to you on behalf of the Board of the International Fab Lab Association. Our central email address is association[at]fabfolk.com, the address of our preliminary web site is http://fablabinternational.org.

Of course, you also can contact our board members directly:

·Chairperson, Pieter van der Hijden

·External and Internal Relations, Axel Sylvester, Hiroya Tanaka

·Innovation (new products and services), Alex Schaub

·Liaison CBA and FABn, Sherry Lassiter

·Registrar (Fab Charter, Rite-de-passage, List), Lindi Mophuti

·Secretary, Peter Troxler

·Treasurer, Betty Barrett

FABWORKS aact 01

Diseño y fabricación digital para la arquitectura. Docencia, investigación y transferencia

Encuentro internacional | presentación libro | exposición

[fecha]
15 de diciembre de 2011

[lugar]
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura Universidad de Sevilla

[participantes]
Tomás Díez, Fab Lab Barcelona
Antoni Nicolau, proyecto Fab City Barcelona
Alex Schaub, Fab Lab Amsterdam & International Fab Lab Association
Deanna Herst, Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam
Manuel Gutiérrez de Rueda + José Pérez de Lama, Universidad de Sevilla

[organiza]
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura

[dirección encuentro]
Manuel Gutiérrez de Rueda, Director Fab Lab Sevilla
José Pérez de Lama, Director Adjunto Fab Lab Sevilla

Narciso J. Vázquez Carretero, Director, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
Percy Durand Neyra, Subdirector de Investigación

[coordinación y equipo Fab Lab Sevilla]
Juan José Olmo, José M. Sánchez Laulhé, Juan Carlos Pérez Juidías, José Buzón; colaboradoras: Cynthia Rivas Bajo, Belén Barrigón Ferrero

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura

Más info: http://htca.us.es/blogs/fabworks

International Fab Lab Association
Newsletter - November 2011
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Thanks for waiting and sorry for the delay. Here is finally our November Newsletter (December coming ASAP). […] We will inform you about what is happening in our association and abroad and how you can participate.

Contents:

· From the board
· Picture of the month
· URGENT: 9 December: webinar on “Fab Lab Implementation & Sustainability”
· URGENT: 15 December: Sevilla (Spain): Symposium on “Digital Design and Fabrication for Architecture”
· Winter boot camp from 9-18 January in various locations
· Fab Academy starts 18 January 2012!
· Upcoming events
· Statistics and Colophon

From the board

In our board meeting via Skype on November 14th, we discussed the ongoing efforts to find a nice web solution for the association. As an association we need a place of our own to publish and collaborate. Where other sites in our Fab Lab community offer centralized information already, we will link to it. Of course this Newsletter will be linked to the site as well. If people want to subscribe, they are kindly invited to become a member of our association.

Our next board meeting has been scheduled for December 12th. We will send you our next Newsletter one week later.

Picture of the month

What are you seeing, where on earth is this found and what is its relation with 3D-printing? The answer will be revealed in our next issue.

The picture of the October 2011 Newsletter shows the winning design in the Fab7 contest in Lima, Peru (August 2011). Sorry, we have no names. The goal of this contest was to develop a new point of sale for so-called ambulantes: street vendors with a movable booth. On the last day of Fab7 all participants went to the riverside around sunset. On a crowded place, our Fab ambulantes joined about 20 regular ones, watched by a few hundred people walking there around. A mixed jury of Fab folk and regular ambulantes decided that the banana angel with Inca-like wings was the winner. ¡Congratulations!

URGENT: 9 December: webinar on “Fab Lab Implementation & Sustainability”

The United States Fab Lab Network (USFLN) organizes a series of informational webinars on Fab Labs. The first one was on “Planning and justifying a Fab Lab” (see: http://wp.me/p1wAHx-Y). The second one is on “Fab Lab Implementation & Sustainability”. It takes place on Friday, December 9th, 2011; 11:00 am EST – 12:30 pm EST. See http://usfln.wordpress.com/ for all the details including registration process.

URGENT: 15 December: Sevilla (Spain): Symposium on “Digital Design and Fabrication for Architecture”

The Fab Lab Sevilla at the Higher Technical School of Architecture University of Sevilla (Spain) is organizing an international symposium “FabWorks. Digital Design and Fabrication for Architecture. Learning, Research and Transference”. The free symposium includes the presentation of the book “FabWorks. Diseño y fabricación digital para la arquitectura” and an exhibition showing the works developed at Fab Lab Sevilla during the academic course 2011 / 2012.

The symposium takes place on December 15th, 2011. It starts at 11.00 AM with institutional representatives. Speakers are Tomás Díez (Fab Lab Barcelona and Fab Academy), Antoni Nicolau (Barcelona Fab City Project), Deanna Herst (Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam), Alex Schaub (Fab Lab Amsterdam and International Fab Lab Association), Manuel Gutierrez and Jose Perez de Lama (Fab Lab Sevilla). For more information, see http://htca.us.es/blogs/fabworks

Winter boot camp from 9-18 January in various locations

The winter Boot Camp will take place simultaneously in Barcelona, Amsterdam, Boston, Norway, Iceland, and many other sites to be confirmed from 9-18 January. It is a crash course in Fab Lab tools and processes. The tuition fee will be determined locally, which would include tutorials, materials and access to machines and lab equipment. In June (18-24), A bootcamp on Fab Lab Management and Installation will be offered. Contact coordination@fabacademy.org.

Fab Academy starts 18 January 2012!

The third edition of the Fab Academy is starting next January 18th 2012, the main educational program of the Fab Lab Network. It offers a 6 month program on digital fabrication, and it could be taken in any of the participating labs from Ethiopia, Iceland, India, Kenya, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Spain, The Netherlands, USA (3 locations: Detroit, Ohio, Providence).

The Fab Academy offers Certificates on relevant technical topics, and a Diploma aimed at vocational and technical training for employment and investment (along with assistance to its graduates in those areas).These are accredited by the Fab Academy; it is anticipated that they will be followed by a Bachelor’s degree to be offered under applicable regional accreditation, along with post-graduate study. See http://tinyurl.com/d7j4bfr for more information.

Upcoming events

· 9 December: webinar on “Fab Lab Implementation & Sustainability”; http://usfln.wordpress.com/

· 15 December: Sevilla (Spain): Symposium on Digital Design and Fabrication for Architecture; http://htca.us.es/blogs/fabworks

· 9-18 January: Winter bootcamp in various locations; coordination[at]fabacademy.org

· 18 January: start of Fab Academy; http://tinyurl.com/d7j4bfr

Statistics - Our association has 95 members (individual persons). If you know people interested in becoming a member, let them fill in the form you find on http://fablabinternational.org.

There are now 107 Fab Labs. Please, check your ratings!

FAB LABS
1 Oct. 2011 / AAAA rating: 10 / Other ratings: 40 / Not rated: 49
1 Nov. 2011 / AAAA rating: 10 / Other ratings: 48 / Not rated: 49

Colophon - This Newsletter is sent to you on behalf of the Board of the International Fab Lab Association. Our central email address is association@fabfolk.com, the address of our preliminary web site is http://fablabinternational.org.

[…] board members […]:

· Chairperson, Pieter van der Hijden
· External and Internal Relations, Axel Sylvester, Hiroya Tanaka
· Innovation (new products and services), Alex Schaub
· Liaison CBA and FABn, Sherry Lassiter
· Registrar (Fab Charter, Rite-de-passage, List), Lindi Mophuti
· Secretary, Peter Troxler
· Treasurer, Betty Barrett

Info: http://algorithmicdesignworkshops.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/102/

Can the dichotomy between obsessive tooling and strong design agenda be overcome? Can innovative software like Grasshopper be the ideal platform to marry computation, creativity and ecological thinking? What can be done to speed up the process? Algorithmic Design Workshops is a platform created by ecoLogicStudio to engage these questions introducing novel parametric modeling techniques in the context of architecture and landscape design. Each event will be a opportunity for learning design techniques, testing new methods and debating their potential applications or evolution. Architects, Landscape architects, urban designers and students alike will find in the workshops a unique opportunity to improve their technical skills while confronting themselves with the most debated advanced design subjects.

Smooth Spaces workshop [12-17 december, London]

This workshop, particularly suitable for applicants with a preliminary knowledge of grasshopper, offers the opportunity to engage with advanced modelling techniques with main focus on meshes.

The aim of the workshop is the creation of continuous spaces defined by gradual morphological variation rather than linear boundaries. The workshop will start with the generation of a series of 2-dimensional virtual patterns of occupancy within a defined space. These patterns will be generated through the use of associative systems of relationship embedded in the space. As a second step the participants will learn how to use gradient fields [maps, highfields, attractor points…] to create 3-dimensional continuous differentiations in the virtual pattern previously generated. The combinatorial effects of intensive differences [gradients] and extensive articulation [virtual pattern] will lead to the creation of a series of morphological variations [foldings, extrusions, pleats…] that will be explored through the use of meshes and related grasshopper plugins such as Weaverbird and MeshEdit.

Imagen del prototipado de Architectures Volantes. Fuente: http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/FMA

El pasado día 1 de diciembre tuvo lugar en el FRAC de Orleans la inauguración de la exposición de Gramazio y Kohler con Raffaelo D`Andrea de la ETH Zurich de la exposición / performance Architectures Volantes.

Tuve ocasión de asistir a la performance en proceso, en la Gramazio y Kohler dan un paso más en sus investigaciones sobre construcción diseñada digitalmente y ejecutada con sistemas robóticos. En esta ocasión, econ colaboración con el departamento de Robótica de la ETH Zurich, el sistema consiste en un equipo de pequeños helicópteros no tripulados que construyen una torre de ladrillos de poliestireno extruido. Los robots vuelan por toda la sala de exposiciones, llevando a cabo una coreografía gestionada mediante un sistema de videotracking: recogen los ladrillos preparados en la sala de control, se elevan y giran en torno a la torre que van levantando hasta situarse en la vertical del sitio donde van a colocar la pieza, descienden con velocidad para depositarla, y vuelven a comenzar el ciclo. Cada cierto tiempo, paran en una base a recargar baterías. En todo momento hay tres cuatricopters en vuelo. El sistema de control en el que se visualizan las trayectorias de los artefactos y su sistema de guiado en el espacio, así como el avance de la construcción de la torre de 6 metros, puede seguire en tiempo real en una pantalla en el mismo espacio…

Aunque no parece estar guiado por una lógica de tipo emergente, la performance que se completará al cabo de 4 días, sugiere los procesos de construcción de las abejas o de los pájaros, para panales o nidos. En la misma exposición, Gramazio y Kohler exponen un proyecto a mucho mayor escala, - mucho menos convincente -, en el que suponen la hipótesis de una torre de 300 metros de altura usando helicópteros convencionales.

La performance en el Frac Centre el pasado día 2. En el círculo verde puede apreciarse uno de los copter-bots cargado con un bloque de construcción. En el techo se intuye el sistema de sensores y cámaras para el traqueado y dirección de los cuatricópteros.

En la conferencia que impartieron en el Centro Pompidou al día siguiente de la exposición Fabio Gramazio y Matthias Kohler presentaron sus proyectos desde el año 2003, incluyendo uno para la construcción de la cubierta de una nuevo edificio en la ETH de Zurich en el que participa Jaime de Miguel,  que fue profesor del taller Fablab.04 impartido en nuestra Escuela.

Enlaces ///////

FlyingMachineArena: http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea/FMA
Gramazio Kohler: http://www.gramaziokohler.com/
Gramazio Kohler en la ETHZ: http://www.dfab.arch.ethz.ch/
Frac Centre: http://www.frac-centre.fr/public/actualit/ftat01fr.htm

El pasado 30 de noviembre Vicente Guallart, director del área de urbnismo del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona y Neil Gershenfeld, director del Center for Bit and Atoms del MIT y principal promotor de la Fab Lab Network hablaron sobre urbanismo y Fab Labs en el Smart City World Congress “Smart Society for Innovative and Sustainable Cities” celebrado en la capital catalana.

De la noticia publicada en chinadaily.com:

Guallart briefly sketched the model, which is based on five major systems: Information, Water, Energy, Mobility and Production. This last area, where cities must generate jobs to continue attracting residents, could serve as the target for the surprising proposals of Neil Gershenfeld and the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), a research center at MIT that he directs. The CBA is the birthplace of initiatives like Fab Labs, factories in which state-of-the-art machines and digital technology are used to manufacture objects. Fab Labs could spark a veritable urban revolution to reverse the general trend of cities losing industrial production over the past half-century” […]

Proposals such as Fab Labs offer urban centers that have spent years striving to be completely post-industrial, the chance to become industrial again. “Instead of taking jobs out of cities, this new Industrial Revolution would see all the products consumed by citizens of a particular area produced locally,” said Gershenfeld. In this way, he continued, cities would finally become truly self-sufficient, a scenario that he described as “a solution to avoid the economic and ecological disaster of the current global production system”.

Enlace en ABC.es: http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=1020009
Enlace en chinadaily.com: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2011-12/02/content_14202863.htm
Smart City Expo Congress: http://www.smartcityexpo.com/