FAB8

The Eighth International Fab Lab Forum
and Symposium on Digital Fabrication

Wellington, New Zealand
(GMT +12)

Wednesday, August 22

7:30-9:00 Registration, Breakfast, Põwhiri

9:00 Opening Welcome: Rodney Adank and Chris Jackson

9:15 Fabercise! Hiro Tanaka

9:25 State of the Fab World: Sherry Lassiter

9:40 Massey and Fab Labs for Australasia: Ant Pelosi

9:45 Topical Talk: Open Design
Alex Schaub, WAAG
Deana Herst, Utrecht University

10:30 Break

9:00-12:30 Fab Lab Reviews

Netherlands: Bart Bakker (remote)
Manchester: David Forgham Bailey
Fab Lab Sevilla: Jose Perez deLama
Norway: Jens Dyvik
Fab Lab Léon: Cesaro Gonzales
Lorrain County Community College: Scott Zitek
Fab Lab University of Chile: Fernando Torres
Fab Lab Korea: Hunmin Koh
Fab Lab Genk (Belgium): Danny Leen
Fab Lab Leuven (Belgium): Mark Lambaerts
University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland: Serena Cangiano(remote)
Diamond Age Solutions Ltd: Vik Olliver
International Fab Lab Association: Axel Sylvester
Fab Lab COEP (Pune, India): Rajiv Basavarajappa & Sudhir Patil

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-5:00 Workshops: Tutorials

Laser Fabrication: Beno Juarez, Victor Freundt
CNC Large Scale Fabrication: Kenny Cheung
Making Electronics: Nadya Peek
Programming Electroncis: Tomas Diez, Bongani Mdluli
Fab Modeles (CAD/CAM): Matt Keeter
3D Printing: Anna Kazunias France, Ohad Meyuhas
Molding and Casting: Scott Zitek
Screen Printing: Axel Sylvester, Josh Best

6:00 Dinner

7:00 Open Lab


Thursday, August 23

9:00 Announcements: Chris Jackson and Sherry Lassiter

9:15 FABercise!: Chris Jackson

9:30 Topical Talk: Fab in the City

PiTo to DiDo, Sustainability and Fab Labs
Tomas Diez, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

10:30 Break

10:45 Fab Lab Reviews

Fab Lab Leuven (Belgium): Mark Lambaerts
FabLab North West University, Potchesfstroom, South Africa: Pieter Tolmay
Namibia: Lindi Mophuti
Fab Lab Northern Cape, South Africa: Lindi Mophuti
Fab Labs South Africa: Lindi Mophuti(CSIR), Andrew DeVries (DST)
FabLabKamakura: Youka Watanabe
Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton Wisconsin: Scott Zitek
Surinam: Pieter van der Hijden
FabLab Crete: Alexandros Vazakas
Stadslab, Rotterdam: Peter Troxler (remote)
Fab Labs Israel: Ohad Meyuhas, Arielle Blonder
Vienna, Munich, Luzern, Cologne, Aachen, Surich, Erlangen-Nuremburg, Potsdam, Nuremburg, Hamburg: Axel Sylvester
Incite Focus, Detroit: Josh Best
Fab Lab San Diego: Katie Rast

12:30 Lunch

1:30-5:00 Workshops: Research

fab lab 2.0: hardware and software for labs that make labs
     
Fab Modules: Matt Keeter, MIT
     MTM: Nadya Peek, MIT

Friendly Composites: big/light/strong
     Kenny Cheung, MIT

Sustainable Fab Labs: running off-grid, material re-use, sourcing and producing materials locally
     Tomas Diez, IAAC
     Arieti Markopoulou, IAAC
     Josh Best, Incite Focus

Resarch Papersin Progress: Previews (hosted by Peter Troxler (remote), Sherry Lassiter)

     Mini Labs: Building Capacity for Innovation Through a Local Community Fab Lab Network. by Jeff Ginger, Robert McGrath, Betty Barrett & Virginia McCreary

     Digital Fabrication Laboratory Integration in Architectural Education. The experiment of a course. By Alexandros Vazakas

4:00 International Fab Lab Association Meeting:
     Open discussion on Fab Charter and Rite-de-Passage


6:00 Dinner

7:00 Open Lab

Friday, August 24

9:00 Announcements: Chris Jackson and Sherry Lassiter

9:15 FABercise! Hunmin Koh

9:25 Topical Talks:

P-o-P and Conductive Materials: Analisa Russo, UIUC

DIY/Maker furniture: Chris Jacskon, Massey University

10:30 Break

10:45 Fab Lab Reviews

Fab Lab Lima: Beno Juarez, Victor Freundt, Walter Gonzales
MSI Chicago Fab Lab: Rabiah Mayas, Dan Meyer, Matt Chalker
Ghana Fab Lab: Abu Adam (remote)
HONFablab(Fablab Yogyakarta): Tommy Suryo (remote)
Fablab Amsterdam: Alex Schaub
The TIE Project Boston: Makeda Stephenson
Fab Lab UAI Chile: Diego Ignacio Pinochet Puentes
USFLN: Scott Zitek
Fab Lab Addis Ababa: Bereketnesh Grima
Fab Lab Oslo --The Movie: Jens Dyvik
Fab Lab Athens: Areti Markopoulou
Hydro-kits from San Diego: Carlos Alonsa Uranga

12:30 Lunch

1:30-5:00 Workshops: Operations

Life Cycle: How to Start your own Fab Lab
      Sustainability, Advocacy and Marketing and Fab Courses to Help
      Hosts: Pieter van der Hijden, Beno Juarez with Lindi Mophuti, Victor Freundt, Tom Okite

Powers of Ten -- Scaling fab labs:
     super lab, mini labs, grassroots labs, common tools and processes
     Host: Axel Sylvester with Jeff Ginger (remote), Alex Schaub, Alexander Kostinsky and Vladimir Kuznetsov

Education
     Hosts: Tomas Diez, Sherry Lassiter
     High Schools and K-12 Work: Nick DiGiorgio (remote), Frosti Gislason (remote)
     Professional Development: Pieter Tolmay, Nick DiGiorgio (remote)
     Education Research: Paulo Blikstein (remote)
     Informal Education: Rabiah Mayas, Katie Rast
     Fab Academy: Tomas Diez

6:00 Dinner

Labs close at 7:00


Saturday, August 25

Fab Camp

9:00 Registration

9:15 FABercise!
     Peruvian Exercise Weaving

9:30 Announcements and self-organizing

     Fab Camp Sessions (A few planned below)

     Make a Machine!
     DIY Furniture
     Open Design
     Interactive Ecology

10:30 Break

11:00 Fab Sessions continue

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Fab Sessions continue

3:30 Break

4:00 Fab Sessions continue

6:00 Dinner on your own, enjoy Wellington!

     Lab will be open in the evening until 22:00 for work on Fab World Cup projects

     International Fab Lab Association online elections


Sunday, August 26

Fab Camp

9:00 Registration

9:15 FABercise!
     Chris Jackson

9:30 Announcements and self-organizing

     Fab Camp Sessions (A few planned below)

     Make a Machine!
     DIY Furniture
     Open Design
     Interactive Ecology

10:30 Break

11:00 Fab Sessions continue

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Fab Sessions continue

3:30 Break

4:00 Fab Sessions continue

6:00 Dinner on your own, enjoy Wellington!

     Lab will be open in the evening until 22:00 for work on Fab World Cup projects

     International Fab Lab Association online elections


Monday, August 27

Symposium on Digital Fabrication

9:00-9:15 Welcome

9:15-10:30 Foundations

Printing Functional Materials
     Jennifer Lewis, University of Illinois (video)
     Analisa Russo, University of Illinois

Bioprinting
     Anthony Atala, Wake Forest (video)
     Robin Levin, Levin Strategic Consulting

Synthetic Life
     John Glass, JCVI (video)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:15 Implementations

Fabricating Fabricators
     Vik Olliver, Diamond Age Solutions
     Suz Olliver, Diamond Age Solutions

Solar Sinter video
     Markus Kayser, MIT (video)

Rapid-Prototyping and Security
     Michael Hopmeier, Unconventional Concepts Inc.
     Benjamin Mako Hill, MIT, Harvard (video)

12:15-1:45 Lunch

1:45-3:25 Applications

Share What You Make -- Under the Hood at Instructables
     Eric Wilhelm, Instructables (video)
     Saul Griffith, Instructables (video)
     Bridget McKendry, pixelbrid

Ponoko
     David ten Have, Ponoko

Fabrication in Construction
     Andrew Maher, Arup
     James Gardiner, EnExG Laing O'Rourke

Fabrication For and In Space
     John Hines, NASA (video)

3:25-3:55 Break

3:55-5:35 Implications

Blurring the Lines Between Physical and Fantastic
     JP Lewis, Weta

Innovation: Good, Bad, and Ugly
     John Kao, Institute for Large Scale Innovation (video)
     TBA

Technology and Refugees
     Toshi Naito, UNHCR Innovation (video)

Te Aro Taumata: Where Two Worlds Meet
      Piri Sciascia, Victoria University, Pro Vice-Chancellor Mãori

5:35-6:00 Fab Academy Graduation

7:00- Inauguration, Open House, Reception

Tuesday, August 28

9:00 Announcements: Neil Gershenfeld, Chris Jackson, Sherry Lassiter

9:10 FABercise!
     Frosti Gislason

9:15 FAB10 Pitches

     Israel
     Moscow
     
Barcelona
     MIT

9:30 IGNITE Lab presentations and FAB10 Pitches

     AS220 fab lab, Providence RI
     Anna Kazunias France

     Barcelona fab lab
     Tomas Diez

     Kisumu fab lab--Kenya
     Tom Okite

     Viyan Ashram Fab Lab--Pabal India
     Amitraj Deshmukh

     Fab Lab 77 (Moscow)
     Vladmir Kuznetsov

     Fab Lab DC
     Phyllis Klein (remote)

     Fab Lab Rutgers
     Rick Anderson


9:45 Fab Ecosystem

          Road Maps
          Workgroup Reports
                         Fab Lab 2.0 (Nadya, Matt)
                         Sustainable fab labs (Tomas and Josh)
                         Friendly Composites (Kenny)
                         Research Papers (Lass)
                         Life Cycle Reports I and II (van der Hijden)
                         Powers of Ten (Axel)
                         Education (Lass & Tomas)
           Rites of Passage
           Sustainability

12:00 Lunch 1:30 Final Fab Camp Open Session

3:00 Break

3:30 International Fab Lab Association
     (Financial Report, General Meeting Report)


4:00 Conclusion

     Vision
     Action
     FAB9: Japan
     Announcement of FAB10: BARCELONA!!

4:30 World FAB Cup Design Competition

     Congratulations to our awesome Winners!!

                 First Place: Jens Dyvik from Norway fab labs and his amazing quad copter! Wow!
                 Second Place: Matt Chalker from MSI fab lab and his Rubber Powered Free Flight Aeroplane (with beautiful gossamer wings!)
                 Third Place: Emma Fox Derwin and Jason Mitchell from Massey Univ. fab lab with their surface-skimming glider.
                 Most Creative Interpretation: Axel Sylvester from the Hamburg fab lab and his Ephemeral Entry.
                 Most in the Fab Lab Spirit: Carlos Uranga from San Diego fab lab and his Bouyant Balloon Bundle.

      Check out Moscow fab lab Facebook page!

     And many thanks to our judges: Chris Jackson, Rob Adams and Alex Schaub

8:00 Closing reception at Southern Cross