labfab : the extended fablab of rennes (inspired by fab city project)
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The exTended fablab of RennesThe Labfab (LABoratoire de FABrication)
is the fablab of Rennes
an hisToRical ecosysTem
Capital of the region
2 Universities – 67000 students
Public sector administrations
1100 companies in the ICT
International ICT R&D institute (B-COM)
Open data pioneer
aT The oRigin of The fablaban ORIgInaL aLLIanCe Of fOUnDeRs
superior schools (arts and engineers)
Citizenship associations (about internet and bike repairing)
Business actors : chamber of commerce
The city of Rennes and Rennes Métropolitain area
fRom The booTcamp of 2012, TO The exTenDeD faBLaB
Bootcamp at the school of arts
Invention of our rules in the fablab rules
The french speaking network
Too much people and projects
The ambition to empower people and organisms
M.Bingham also make new things and try to use them
step one : let’s make a fablab here with those who want to MaKe this strange thing, and then we’ll see how it sounds...
WhaT is an exTended fablab
fablab : a workplace
Teaching to people and organizations
developping objects that can be iterated
exploring new models, including open-source and économy
building bricks in an open écosystem and sharing them
being a tool so that actors can transform willing and needs in real usable solutions
extended : a network of places sharing human time, knowledge and tools.
Teaching to people teaching to people
developping platforms for sharing, crea-tion, and to transform objects into value (for somebody, to solve a problem, to create an activity). Wikis, inventories...
contributing to collective intelligence by open-source knowledge sharing, learning blocks, méthods, technical and uses cases solutions.
ouR Rules In The faBLaB RULes
free workshops every week for anybody
You can use tools only with a project and sha-ring knowledge. no fee. no other conditions.
Companies and organisms are paying and have their days in the week
one fablab, some places with tools and people, one inventory and one portfolio
step one : let’s make a fablab with those who want to MaKe things and for those who don’t know they can.
ResulTs Of 2012
1st international meeting of the french speaking fablabs
20 projects of objects
20 free workshops
academic workshops between school and engineers schools
400 beginners at the public workshops
Montréal – Dakar - Ouagadougou – Hué (Vietnam) – Rennes – Britanny region.
We do not have enough space and machines... But other places want to join...
2013 – The exTenDeD faBLaB BegIns
Writing the concept of the extended fablab of Rennes
The city of Rennes funds 3d printers(15), 75 arduino starters kits and tools for 12 public spaces
The labfab wins a 200 000 € grant from the french state
The labfab recruits another fab manager
Preparation of french speaking cursus about digital fabrication
Teaching to people teaching to people teaching to...
The extended fablab of Rennes at the end of 2013 : 15 places.
1 main workplace, 1 academic, 1 highschool, 12 public spaces (with 12 people soon working on digital exclusion and digital projects of the citizens).
2013 ResulTs
200 people using the lab
50 projects of objects
+ 27 projects emerging through the interna-tional « daTaplus » challenge we launched (france, africa, Québec)
Bootcamp of hué (Vietnam)
Organizing the first public event with the 6 brittany fablabs : 4500 persons.
Projects of people selected at maker faire Rome, exhibited at the shanghai biennale of art, in festivals, first services sold to clients.
Dataplus challenge – Hué Bootcamp – CityNoise project – Bionicohand project
sTRaTegic qUesTIOns
hybridation of historical and new forces in the territory.
AcademicsPatents
R&DTech
Long timeSpecialized
New actorsOpen-sourcePrototypingUse casesIterationPhysical mashups
sTRaTegic qUesTIOns
methods to solve problems with upcycling approche : a way to explore.
Upcycling of :
• Knowledge
• Places
• Technical resources
peRimeTeRs Of The PROjeCT
geographical : from the city to the metropolitan area ?
Knowlegde sharing perimeter : the free and massive online curse in french launched in march with telecom Bretagne has 12000 subscribers...
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new places wanting to join
Testing business models (basic and high level workshops, rapid prototyping, events, working for R&D consortium, crowdfunding...)
more and more hybridations from proto-typing runs with companies about connected home to 3D print in the field of archeology...
WhaT We aRe ThinKing abouT
building a culture of upcycling of the resources to create an iterate new solutions is a way to be resilient to the changes that can happens everyday.
examples of peRspec-Tives fOR The exTenDeD faBLaB Of Rennes
mobile fablab for the 43 cities of the metropolitan area.
The territory as an inventory of machines, time, knowledge, to MaKe things.
public spaces storytelling with installations
Transformation of the technologies in use cases
new cursus with universities
Workshops for children to build an « ingenious territory » for tomorrow
international cooperations
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contacts : isabelle pellerin VP – Rennes Métropolitan area [email protected]
laurent hamon Member of the city council - Rennes [email protected]
hugues aubin In charge of the ICT [email protected]
www.labfab.fr