'Fabbing Practices' – thesis by Aurélie Ghalim

‘Fabbing Practices – an Ethnography in FabLab Amsterdam‘ is the title of the master thesis of by Aurélie Ghalim at the University of Amsterdam (New Media and Culture Studies).

‘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 peerproduction, 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. Fabbing practices are described in depth in three chapters: 1. Fabbing: Personalization and Networking – 2.Materiality of the Maker Revolution – 3. Openness’

Excerpts are at P2P, the full 93 page thesis is downloadable here. Worth reading.