maker circus mfr 5.10.13 15pg
DESCRIPTION
MakerCircus is a traveling laboratory that aims at spreading ideals of innovation and open design, reaching those contexts which are geographically and culturally “far” from the main urban centers. The lab will be equipped with tools for the digital fabrication and will promote workshops and activities where co-design can be experimented thanks to technologies as 3D printing, laser cutters and smart objects, allowing to discover the pleasure of sharing and collaboration. By visiting different local contexts, MakerCircus aims at linking them and creating an always growing network. The proposed activities are mainly directed to schools, universities, makerspaces, hackerspaces and, in general, to each tech/culture oriented association.TRANSCRIPT
Spread knowlegeStrengthen network
David Montenegro speaker
Maker Faire Rome05.10.2013
What
To spread the basic principles of Fablabs outside the laboratories reaching also people who live in small towns.
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Italian populationdistribution by province
Fablab raises in the main urban centers while italian
population is shuttered in province, fisically too
far from the main digital manufacturing centers.
Digital Divideuneven distribution of digital resources
Causes
•economics/lack of tools
•computer illitteracy
•geographic and demographic conditions
Digital Divideuneven distribution of digital resources
Causes
•economics/lack of tools
•computer illitteracy
•geographic and demographic conditions
Cauntermeasure
•share tools whit other people
•teaching each other
•gather scattered makers into a populated community
Avvicinare gli strumenti di un FabLab a quella larga fetta di popolazione troppo lontana dai FabLab attualmente attivi sul territorio Italiano per colmare di fatto una forma molto più tangibile di digital divide.
Bring tools of a fablab to that part of italian population too far from workspaces to actively partecipate to their everyday life preventing another form of digital divide.
Goals12
3
To spread the knowledge
of tools of digital manufacturing in peripheral context
To link different figures complementaryand different realities, even belonging to different contexts
To discover people with different stories, skills and personalities
