Fabtafel 12 August

Peter Troxler — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:50:00 +0200

We had the pleasure to welcome Ronen Kadushin at the Fabtafel. He told us about the fundamentals of Open Design – an alternative design and development method that frees a designer to pursue creative expressions. It follows the example of Open Source Software.

We got a sneak-preview of the (Un)limited Design Contest which was opened on 13 August at Hacking at Random (HAR).

And we heard from the Spullenmen about their approach to Fablab, about their Open Toko, a series of workshops about technical topics in the field of art, design and technology.

For their (planned) Fablab they are investigating a way to encourage sharing: when sending a design to e.g. the lasercutter, users should have to choose to share it or to pay for the use of the machine. This would ideally be integrated into the workflow, e.g. as part of the “print” dialogue or when transferring the design to the controller computer.

FabLab.nl: Fabtafel 12 August

Fabtafel 12 August