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Fab labs : places for sharing to boost innovation

Authors: Fabio CRUZ, Alaa HASSAN, Hakim BOUDAOUD

Publication date: March 10, 2023 | Lire en français

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    1. What: what is a fab lab?

    From a semantic point of view, fab lab is the abbreviation of "fabrication laboratory". This term, with its strong technical connotations, due mainly to the intense use of numerically controlled machines in these places, sometimes conceals the primary reality of fab labs, which is above all to offer socio-technical spaces open to encounters, learning and sharing. They encourage the informal exchanges necessary for creativity and exploration. They are centered on "making practices", which are a prerequisite for the spread of open-source digital fabrication.

    Open source is a term that refers to something that people can modify and share because its design is accessible to the public. It originated in the development of software whose source code is freely accessible, reusable and modifiable (Linux, for example). Today, "open source"...

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