Fabbing Practices

* Master's Thesis: FABBING PRACTICES- AN ETHNOGRAPHY IN FAB LAB AMSTERDAM. Aurelie Ghalim. 2013.

URL = http://www.scribd.com/doc/127598717/FABBING-PRACTICES-AN-ETHNOGRAPHY-IN-FAB-LAB-AMSTERDAM

Description

"This thesis, based on an ethnographic approach, investigates personal fabrication. Fab Labs or FABrication LABoratories, introduced as facilities where you can make (almost) anything, are small-scale workshops for digital fabrication and rapid-prototyping. Fab Lab that are inscribed in the maker subculture and based upon open design principles and commons-based peer production, first emerged in MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms in 2001. Since then, many labs have scaled geographically and the present study explores Fab Lab Amsterdam."

Contents

"Fabbing practices are described in depth in three chapters:

1. Fabbing: Personalization and Networking

• 1.1 Atoms Are the New Bits32
• 1.2 Machine Tools that Make (almost) Anything
• 1.3 Fabrication Laboratories: a growing trend

2. Materiality of the Maker Revolution

• 2.1 Digital Fabrication: a new trend in DIY culture
• 2.2 The Maker Subculture
• 2.3 Making a Community
• 2.4 Making Architecture, Art and Fashion
• 2.5 From Do it Yourself (DIY) to Do it Together (DIT)

3. Openness

• 3.1 Open Design
• 3.2 Limits of Openness
• 3.3 Distributed Education

Further:

• Discussion: Towards New Developments in Fab Labs?
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Appendix

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Keywords: Fab Lab, Open Design, Personal Fabrication, Rapid Prototyping, CNC Machine Tools, 3D Printing, Commons-Based Peer Production, DIY, Open Source Hardware, Maker Subculture, Mass Customization, Pro-Ams