Fablabs have been gaining increasing poularity in the recent years. Their multiplication within large industrial companies has brought about a new dynamic of collective intelligence. This is becoming part of the organisational apparatus for stimulating creativity and innovation. What are your professional views?
I did not know anything about fablabs! Now that I learn something I thing in postindustrial societies the "Big" is not compatible with the needs of this society. I' wound rather support small size production units, and networked science that determine the needs and the problems at hand. I think there is future to fablabs.
The concept of FABLABS was developed at MIT!
http://fablabedp.edp.pt/
The following paper shows that FabLabs are the answer to the innovation paradox, yes!
Great inventions and surely give innovatin paradoks by bringing and bridging industrial expensive tools and machinery automation to be use as practical experiment and development of industrial best practice.
I like 3dprinting experiment as well as microprocessor assembly and cnc assembly.
Creative and innovative paradox.
It is a Company within company approach.... ... these are smaller production units to carter to specific demands and lower volumes or higher care and quality conscious or "Sample approvals to pilot lots"....FAB LABs give clear identity to the process of manufacture with lesser investment on overheads equitable to the production volume
Co-creation of knowledge is an old concept. Collective wisdom has been very much a part of the oriental culture. Hope these turn out to be serious initiatives rather than fads.
Great question Mohamed and those are useful references Ljubomir. I agree that fablabs are useful in design and taking an idea from the science lab to commercial reality. In Australia, because of the high labour costs and changing face of manufacturing towards advanced manufacturing, fablabs are useful in developing these advanced products and also in design education for hands-on experience. It boosts the innovation capacity and a useful component in university-industry collaboration.
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