Design NowSummer School

Milan 2016

Fab City: Designing Products and Services for Urban Resilience through Manufacturing

Makers and laboratories, communities, cities

Monday 11/07Massimo Menichinelli

Makers

Computing

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC

Hacking

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacks_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology

Hackers

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club

Entrepreneurs

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Source: http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19840416,00.html

Pirates (?)

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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Gates_mugshot.png

Pirates (?)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_Silicon_Valley

Activists

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman

Activists

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project

an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

an Accidental Revolutionary

Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel

A fork (?)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative

Dot-Com Bubble

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

Web 2.0

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Make Magazine

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Source: http://www.makershed.com/products/make-complete-ebook-collection-pdfs

Makers

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sparkfun/15427100901/

Maker Faires

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/104888778@N06/10182276976/

Informal Economy

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/eneas/9442432250/

Stealth of Nations

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Source: https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Nations-Global-Informal-Economy/dp/0307279987/

Jugaad

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Source: https://www.amazon.com/Jugaad-Innovation-Flexible-Generate-Breakthrough/dp/1118249747/r

Before moving to the (big) cities

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Source: http://www.controappuntoblog.org/2012/07/30/anni-68-69-lotte-contro-il-cottimo-ed-altro/

Laboratories

The place for innovation

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dnak/3573801013/

Distributed? And sustainability?

Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lindenbaum/397980559/

Hackerspaces (Hacklabs)

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hannumakarainen/6955298675/

Hackerspaces (Hacklabs)

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hannumakarainen/7329114082/

Center for Bits and Atoms @ MIT

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Source: http://cba.mit.edu/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Gershenfeld

Fab 1.0

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Source: http://www.google.com/patents/US2820187?hl=it#v=onepage&q&f=false

Fab 2.0

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Source: http://www.reprap.org/

Fab 3.0

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Source: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEGO

Fab 3.0

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Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843647/

Fab 4.0

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Source: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribosoma

Fab 4.0

Source: http://makezine.com/2014/11/15/3d-printing-using-genetically-modified-bacteria-and-orange-juice/

Bits and atoms...

Fab Labs

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimo_menichinelli/6766260627/

Fab Labs

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimo_menichinelli/6675566883/

Fab Labs

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Source: http://waag.org/nl/diensten/fablab-amsterdam

Fab Labs

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/37873897@N06/4973326149/

Fab Labs

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Source: http://www.minifablab.nl/

Fab Labs

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Source: http://www.minifablab.nl/

A global community

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Source: data from fablabs.io

Makerspaces

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauriej/9425952261/

TechShops

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joi/4275586653/

TechShops

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis/5429962353/

Sewing Cafes

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thesewingcafe/albums/72157626654263341

… textile factories

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_manufacture_during_the_Industrial_Revolution

… cottage industry

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Repair Cafes

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Source: http://repaircafe.org/en/

Communities

fablabs.io

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Source: https://www.fablabs.io/

hackerspaces.org

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Source: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/

makerspace.com

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Source: https://makerspace.com/

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

Maker labs community on Twitter

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Source: https://www.academia.edu/20409922/Mapping_the_structure_of_the_global_maker_laboratories_community_through_Twitter_connections

… an history rebuilt with Google

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Source: data from Google Trends

Cities

Cities: thanks to agriculture

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Source: http://www.earthlymission.com/maps-of-medieval-cities/

Enclosures, commons, industry

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

Cities and factories

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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Industrialisation;_19th_c._town_in_Lancashire_Wellcome_M0003212.jpg

Reshoring

1. The dollar has weakened

2. Wage differentials have narrowed between U.S. and key manufacturing economies

3. Natural gas prices have declined in America relative to global price levels

4. Global supply chains have become slower and more expensive

5. Various forms of volatility have become more apparent and thus a larger concern

6. Miscellaneous other factors point in the same direction: “nearsourcing” (IP, Quality

Control)

Source: http://www.openp2pdesign.org/2013/fabbing/policies-for-digital-fabrication/

Urban Manufacturing

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Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/massimo_menichinelli/14653444024/

Computing... City

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035382/Google-discloses-energy-consumption--power-Salt-Lake-City.html

The numbers show Google's data centers use 260million watts - enough to power a city of 100,000 to 200,000 people, reports tech blog Gizmodo.Salt Lake City, Utah, by comparison, has a population of 186,440.

Fab City

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Source: https://issuu.com/iaacbits/docs/6.4.3_white_paper_fab_lab

Maker City

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Source: https://makercitybook.com/

Summer School

Process: Gantt (first version)

Process: Gantt (second version)

Groups?

● Manufacturing locally, and creating global impact● Distributed energy production● Cryptocurrency for a new economy● Food production and urban permaculture● Educating for the future● Building the future circular [spiral] economy● Collaboration between governments and the civil society

Thank you!massimo@fablabbcn.org@openp2pdesign