[OpenDesign] overview of Fab Labs

Mon Sep 3 20:54:34 UTC 2012

Hi Cindy-

An agency in France did a report on the implementation and implications of Fab Labs last year. Are you familiar with it?

It didn't profile all the individual labs though. I could dig up a link to it later if you're interested.

Just let me know.

"Dr. Peter Troxler" <trox at fabfolk.com> wrote:

>Hi all
>
>there must be numerous bachelor theses according to the information requests we all get …
>
>formally, the list at http://wiki.fablab.is/wiki/Portal:Labs is the most complete directory; you can also check the fab8nz.com site which in some way would include the short presentations of many labs
>
>there is a nice overview created by Ping at http://www.slideshare.net/slidesharefing/fab-labs-overview
>
>just what comes to mind right now while procrastinating on a presentation I have to give tomorrow
>
>/ pt
>On 3 Sep 2012, at 16:15 , Kohtala Cindy wrote:
>
>> Hi all 
>> 
>> I wonder if there have been any good publications (preferably something with a platform - like a conference paper or a peer-reviewed journal - not just a blog entry) on the labs in the Fab Lab network? possibly including other maker spaces and labs too
>> 
>> I know that e.g. Peter Troxler addresses business models in certain labs in "Bending the Rules" (http://square-1.eu/site/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/TroxlerWolf2010_BendingTheRules_FablabInnovationEcology_pub.pdf) and I've seen the matrix in the Libraries of Peer Production chapter. Anything else, Peter, that I've missed?
>> 
>> Just wondering if there is a larger overview - what Fab Labs are open now, are they institutional or commercial, which ones have explicitly green agendas, business models, user types, project and output types etc. 
>> 
>> Thanks for all info
>> Cindy in Helsinki 
>> 
>> P.S. Welcome to my event at the Open Knowledge Festival! 
>> 
>> Cindy Kohtala
>> Doctoral researcher
>> Department of Design
>> Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
>> Helsinki, Finland 
>> cindy.kohtala at aalto.fi
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>> 
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