Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Jean Louis Frechin

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Using 3D modeling technologies and ever-growing technology of rapid prototyping, objects become printable. We will therefore to a new system design, production and manufacturing and distribution AdHoc. Will we now all creators? What will be the aesthetics of these new objects?


Printable _Des Objects: The development of CAD and CAM (CAD-CAM), significantly alters the process of design / production / distribution in an integrated chain, focusing on the context, uniqueness and trade. Advances in rapid prototyping brings the advent of mini production systems ad hoc appointed "FabLab. A "FabLab" (short for fabrication laboratory) named by Neil Gershenfeld is a workshop consisting of machine tools controlled by computers controllable demand that will eventually make almost anything. The "FabLab" is the natural complement to the concept of object to download. Deriving of rapid prototyping techniques, it now impacts the concepts of manufacturing and production. It allows for specific products, small scale of production to demand, etc ... The "FabLab" means all tools and software needed for production. The "FabLab" tends to redefine the distance between object, place and temporality of production. Its definition, however they deserve elastic Mapping utopias associated.

_ From the Fabless FabLAb: The FabLab revolutionize the business and you can imagine what upsets forward the concepts of organization based on branding, innovation and Marketeer Fabless (without tool production company). The objects we buy, will produce and use will be made in FabLabs based locally at the site of consumption. An object could be created anywhere in the world, be exchanged through websites, designed, modified or terminated by the end user. This user will become its own brand and his own producer.

_ Personal computers to personal fabrication: The concept of "FabLab" allows for "Self Manufacturers, Discount Eric Von Hippel, produce and redefine the contours of a craft of twenty-first century technology and concepts of production Serial uniqueness. Its authors hope to one day make a device familiar with computers, allowing the creation of new objects or the furtherance of objects directly from plans freely available on the web. The "FabLab" proves extremely useful in the communities whose needs are too small to be claims met by the market.
While everyone will be He commend the actor's needs? We must expect and anticipate its limitations. There will no longer like before. We can not, in fact, determine the intentions of Practice at the Internet conversations. But we can not desire a society of everyone for themselves without object identity system for building common areas. We hope cities or systems of objects as the proposals of the "Factor Sheva 's?
The actors in the design of objects (Design, Engineering, association, self manufacturer) will be little impacted by these developments, but certainly a cause of accelerating their development. Indeed, the "FabLab" part of emancipation enables developers, designers and artists and gives them access to the production of small series. The Fablabs will also iterations from the expectations and desires of people. Thus, Robert Plotkin in his book "Genius in the machine" claims the appearance of software invention that will automatically give anyone the expertise of a craftsman. The proposal for Gershenfeld, invented the concept of "FabLab" can be debated, but it seems that it opens doors in so fascinating, especially where it provides a promising way to combine technological changes and different models development, production and creativity. The success of these possibilities can be explained by the desire to increasingly widespread production itself singular objects that you love and you live rather than relying on customizing products to market. A sort of Post-Production by the user.
However, connecting a web site to a 3D printer produces other objects of the twentieth century. The availability of the printer has offices elsewhere ever produced a writer. The technological dimension and servicielle new objects can not be underestimated. The tool in this context is less interesting than how to use them, proposals and practices that will be done.

The "FabLab" Produce there some situations and new aesthetic? We discover the expression of creative leadership to develop new and interesting? They are the necessary space and symbolic identity of these "objects individual."

In this hope did not confuse you one crisis marketing and consumption that excludes people of their lives with the needs and roles in the creation and design, renewing, human-centered?

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4 Responses to "From the Fabless FabLAb"


  1. lneyssensas

    10 months ago

    thank you for this article
    "Making available printer on the office has ever produced elsewhere as a writer" but to permit the new aesthetic situations like the photocopier and production system or mechanical numérique.Un new craftsman (at) as there is a new fan


  2. Clement

    10 months ago

    What is particularly interesting is that the initial motivations for the development of FabLab do not seem to reflect issues. This is my personal view but the fact of giving ordinary people the opportunity to design their machines to have a greater environmental impact. The key is local production. A new closeness will be established between the user and product.
    The weak signals from the advent of FabLab more emphasis on the fact that it empowers people to create by themselves than designing the whole object. As you point out, the printer has not only lead to her writers. The Makers and Pierre Lota will not result in exclusive design engineers and budding. For cons, I think many redo home ideas that are presented.

    The misuse of the technology proposed by Neil Gershenfeld Will it stronger than the original goal that the researcher was looking? Time will surely tell.


  3. Clement

    10 months ago

    I forgot to pass this proposal "design fiction" (before the hour) which is quite in about FabLab: Mr. Faltazi

    http://www.monsieurfaltazi.com/php/ .. .

    "He anticipates, as a simulation of a commercial site, the development in the coming years a new mode of design, production and distribution of objects, made possible by the existence today of 3D printers and Internet network. "


  4. Jean-Louis Frechin

    10 months ago

    We must especially pay tribute to the architects and designers who have magnified the first steps of these possible. "Paperless studio", G. Pecce, the "nonstandard, and Bernard Cache France.

    I directed a few degrees of interest on these subjects ENSCI. Victor Fromond, Quentin Vaulot, Edward Simoes, Alexandre Lepeu

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