Fab6 Conference in the Netherlands Starting
After months of preparation volunteers, the Waag Society production team and MIT are ready to welcome you to
The yearly global conference about digital fabrication and FabLab community meet-up, August 16th-20th
The ‘Stichting FabLab Nederland’, the Dutch FabLab Foundation thanks all those involved in making this event happen! Dank jullie wel!
Program
All relevant information on the program can be found at the Fab6 website of course, but we’ll highlight a few things here.
- Sunday August 15th: early bird party with the Instructables Restaurant. All the furniture, as well as the food is based on designs and recipes found at Instructables.com.
- Monday will see the official opening and a series of workshops in Amsterdam.
- Tuesday activities take place in the FabLab in Utrecht, Groningen as well as Amersfoort, where the Dutch mobile FabLab has set up camp.
- Wednesday activities take place in the FabLabs in Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Groningen and Amersfoort (mobile FabLab)
- Thursday symposium day at the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam. You can still join us there.
- Friday, closing sessions in Amsterdam
This year we explore the implications and consequences of personal digital fabrication for art, business, industry, culture and education. We are poised on the threshold of a new era, like that of the Industrial Revolution, emerging from access to low- cost, high-precision fabrication tools and powerful Internet-based communication capabilities which are changing the ways we think about and approach innovation, invention, intellectual property, creative processes, manufacturing and distribution, business models, and social and cultural networks. In a world where anyone can access the tools to make or create almost anything, the possibilities are limitless. This is the Industrial®Evolution, a socioeconomic and technical evolution from mechanical means of production to digital means of production and communication.
You can follow Fab6 on-line with @Fab6nl, streaming video through the Polycom video conferencing system, through the tag #fab6 and at 23Video.