TOPIC
STREAM: Organization
This
stream covers the Organization of a grassroots fablab in all its
facets - from a first idea to running a fablab - and will
bring together practitioners, starters, makers and researchers.
Topics
that will be addressed are
- the grassroots approach versus the institutional approach
- defining a labs ambition
- size matters: do not try it alone
- getting a team together
- obtaining space and equipment
- funding, the dangers of subsidy addiction
- business models and continuity
- involving the local community
- becoming part of the (inter)national fablab community
- role of the labmanager
- best practices of existing labs incl. access to the lab
- get a kickstart by learning from others incl. the fabacademy
- value of the fab charter
Contributions
on these (and other) topics are welcome. And of course practical
hands-on activities and workshops, as fablab is about making things
and tools. See our call for contributions.