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Making the regional network of fab labs in Western Balkans Ivana Gadjanski, PhD, Fab Initiative & Global Young Academy
• Personal intro • Intro on fab labs and makerspaces • Power of regional collaboration in the Western
Balkans • Examples of the Fab Initiative projects
• Fab labs in 4th industrial revolution
• PhD in Neuroscience, Georg-August University & Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Goettingen; postdoc at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
• Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, USA, Lab for Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering
• Senior researcher and assistant professor at Belgrade Metropolitan University and Center for Bioengineering (BIOIRC)
• Founder of Fab initiative, a non-profit that supports entrepreneurship in the STEAM field and works on founding fab labs in Serbia and the Western Balkans
• Established Serbia's first Educational Fab Lab Petnica, a workshop for rapid prototyping and a 3D bioprinting facility at BIOIRC
• Organized FABelgrade 2016: 1st regional conference on digital fabrication and fab lab concept
• TED Global Fellow, Member of the Global Young Academy, Young Scientist at World Economic Forum
• Published and award-winning poet
New ways of producing knowledge in 21st century
• Citizens (pupils, students, educators, scientists, makers, entrepreneurs) = everyone, working in community-oriented “informal” hands-on spaces offering tools and learning environments for wider public to experiment and develop their own projects, objects or prototypes
• Where do they do it?
Types of hands-on community-spaces
Fablabs: workshops with specific set of requirements for accessibility, tools, software, ways of sharing knowledge, and curriculum (Fab Charter) - trademarked name
fabfoundation.org; fablabs.io
Makerspaces: more mainstream vision of a publicly-accessible creative space, intended to enable as many crafts to the most significant extent possible
Associated with Maker Faire and Make: Magazine: makerspace.com
Hackerspaces: largely focus on repurposing hardware, working on electronic components, and programming hackerspaces.org hackaday.io
Fab lab Brussels
Makerspace
2001 – 1st fab lab at MIT 2009 – Fab Foundation established NOW - 565 fab labs globally; 270 in Europe
Fab lab tools and principles
• Fab Foundation lists necessary tools for any fab lab to enable users to “make almost anything” by digital fabrication = process of converting digital design into physical object
• Starting fab lab budget: from $25-$65k in capital equipment and about $15-40k in consumables
• Digital fabrication machines for rapid prototyping – 3D printers – CNC mills – Laser cutters – Vinyl cutters
• Open-source electronics (Arduino, Raspberry Pi and alternatives)
• Main fab lab principle: DIY (“do it yourself” and DIT (“do it together”) => open source, open access, open design
Fab lab ecosystem
Fab lab network & support system
The Fab Foundation was formed to facilitate and support the growth of the international fab lab network through the development of regional Fab Foundations and organizations.
The Fab Academy is the distributed education platform of the worldwide network of Fab Labs.
The Fab Wiki is a multilingual documentation platform to help implement fab labs around the world.
Fab Economy is about creating a novel economic paradigm for everybody, where local fullfilment and customization take the place of mass production and global distribution. Fab Labs, companies, charities and organizations can all work together towards reaching this goal
• Fab labs can be used as platforms for connecting components of the knowledge triangle
• Fab lab is a crossover between a business incubator and science & technology park
• Fab lab enables the closing of the “innovation divide” - a gap between the latest research knowledge and real life practice
• World Bank recommends fab labs
– for supporting STEAM education
– for commercialization of research and entrepreneurship in science
Education
Research Innovation
• Fab lab with a focus on primary/high school students and teachers who learn – how to use fab lab machines – how to form their own science clubs (mini-fablabs) back in
their schools
• Edu-fab lab continues to act like a hub to all the schools with new “mini-fablabs” i.e. makerspaces
https://tltl.stanford.edu/project/fablabschool
What is an educational fab lab?
Fab labs in developing country: case study of Serbia
• budgetary allocation for R&D is only 0.35% GDP
• 1% GDP is recommendation of European Union
• Problem: 2/3 of schools in Serbia do not have science labs and cannot perform scientific experiments with students
• Problem: Youth unemployment rate (49.4%)
– lack of experience and contacts to the business
– lack of equipment for product development
• Solution: Fab labs!
Fab labs in the SEE region
Under development
2015: Building the fablab network Belgrade, Serbia
non-profit association, established for promoting fab lab concept & STE(A)M entrepreneurship in Serbia and the region, founded in 2013
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Fab Initiative NGO
www.fablab.rs
Fab Initiative
@FabInicijativa
Petnica Science Center
• the biggest and the oldest (since 1982) independent nonprofit organization for extracurricular, informal science education in South Eastern Europe
Fab Lab Petnica
• AIM:
– To teach young people and their teachers in Serbia how to adopt hands-on approach for STEAM subjects with small amount of money (with low-cost DIY fab lab tools)
– To show that fab lab activities can be used to foster entrepreneurial thinking and kickstart setting up of the new business by the young people in Serbia
• Fab Lab Petnica - a hub that provides:
– Knowledge & inspiration
– tools and industry connections
Fab Lab Petnica - formation
Zcorp 3D printer
Laser cutter
DIY lab ware
Printrbot 3D printer Simple Maker Kit
Fab Lab Petnica – student courses Nov 2015
Fab Lab Petnica – student courses Nov 2015
Fab Lab Petnica – teacher courses April 2016
Forming scientific fab lab at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Belgrade, Serbia
Scientific Fab lab at Faculty of Mech. Eng. UoB
Dr Djordje Čantrak
Prototype made in
fablab
3D printer PrintrBot used in class
Polyhedra fab lab; Belgrade
29 www.fablabs.io/polyhedra
Open source 3D printed wired limb
Working on finger activation through electronics – myoelectric contraction
Vladimir Sipka Borko Jovanovic
FabIn collaborators in fablab network
Europe • Poligon Maker Lab, Slovenia • Institut IRNAS Rače, Slovenia • FabLab Croatia • Fab Lab Athens • Fab lab Budapest • Fab Lab Graz • The Waag Society (Creative Learning Lab) • Fab Lab ErpeMere (Belgium) • FabLabFactory startup (Belgium) • Innocampus mobile fablab -Turkey • FabLearnEurope – conference on digital
fabrication in education
Africa
• Emeka Okafor, Founder at Maker Faire Africa; strategic advisor at African Innovation Association
• Maarten Van Herpen – Innovation Director Africa, Strategy& Business Dev. Philips Africa
• Smart Hub for Tech Entrepreneurs in Madagascar
Building fab lab network in Serbia
• Educational Fab lab Petnica in Science Center Petnica – support by Norwegian Embassy
• Scientific fab lab at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade (ongoing) – US grant support
• Grant application for Biotech Fab Lab – ongoing
• Grant application for SEE regional fablab network – ongoing
• FABelgrade 2016 -1st regional conference on digital fabrication and fab lab concept in South East Europe –www.fabelgrade.io - May 14-15th, 2016
– 2-day event, app. 400 visitors, 30 speakers from 18 countries
– Interactive lectures and practical demos in the fab lab built on the premises
– EC JRC workshop “Why and how to build a fablab” organized on the sidelines
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/event/workshop/why-and-how-build-fablab
Adrian Bowyer – RepRap Project founder
http://fabelgrade.io/speakers/
Source: Moilanen, J. & Vadén, T.: Manufacturing in motion: first survey on the 3D printing community, Statistical Studies of Peer Production.
Global Young Academy
• GYA = international society of young scientists (app. 35 yrs, beginning of independent academic career)
• 200 members from 58 countries and all continents, and 63 alumni.
• Themes: Science & Society, Research Environment, Science Education & Outreach
• Synthetic biology =(DIY) biology + engineering
• Bio-oriented fab labs = new development in fablabs
http://globalyoungacademy.net/
GYA members in DIY bio-field: active in bio-fablabs
Rees Kassen Uni of Ottawa, Canada
Andrew Pelling, Uni. Ottawa, Canada
Ivana Gadjanski Center for
Bioengineering, Serbia
• GOSH! 2016 brought together 50 of the most active developers, users and thinkers in the Open Science Hardware space complemented by expertise from diverse, related backgrounds to seed just such a community.
• Open Science Hardware manifesto (on standardization issues, IP protection – copyright & trademarks, use in education etc.)
http://openhardware.science/gosh-manifesto/
fablabajaccio.com/en/what-is-a-fab-lab/
=> Internet of Things
3rd industrial revolution
Internet (www) &
cloud computing
Zero marginal costs
Consumers became
prosumers
technology revolution with powerful productivity
goods and services free, priceless beyond the market exchange economy
Everybody produces/shares with others in lateral networks
1. newspapers, book-publishing => video/audio sharing; e-books 2. less expensive for IT entrepreneurs to launch a new business
examples
4th industrial revolution: ongoing
Internet of Things (IoT)
Zero marginal costs
Consumers became
prosumers
Brick&mortar internet: energy, communication, logistics networks
Physical products free, priceless beyond the market exchange economy
Everybody MAKES/shares with others in lateral networks
Fab labs and 4th industrial revolution
• FabLabs are breaking down boundaries between digital & physical worlds
• Fablabs play an important role in transformation from capitalism toward collaborative commons
• Fablabs provide access to science, technology, fabrication => enable people to MAKE/PRODUCE physical products
• Fablab network enables sharing & conversion from DIY to DIT
Jeremy Rifkin: Economic Shift – The rise of the Collaborative Commons
