Fab Labs – Innovative User

<p>Preface vii</p>
<p>Introduction xi</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Fab Labs: Observations on a Topical Phenomenon 1</p>
<p>1.1. Origins and an attempt at a definition 1</p>
<p>1.1.1. The origins: a concept from MIT 1</p>
<p>1.1.2. Definition of a Fab Lab 4</p>
<p>1.2. Current state of distribution 12</p>
<p>1.2.1. Deployment in industrialized countries 13</p>
<p>1.2.2. Deployment in developing countries 18</p>
<p>1.3. Constitution and operation of a Fab Lab 19</p>
<p>1.3.1. Varied user profiles 20</p>
<p>1.3.2. The main equipment in a Fab Lab 23</p>
<p>1.3.3. From the creative idea to prototyping: a collaborative process 26</p>
<p>1.4. Factors of success and sustainability of a Fab Lab 30</p>
<p>1.4.1. Members motivation 32</p>
<p>1.4.2. The relationship to innovation 33</p>
<p>1.4.3. Constitution of self–learning communities 41</p>
<p>1.5. A moving community: the makers 49</p>
<p>Chapter 2. The Emergence of the New Production System of Personal Fabrication 51</p>
<p>2.1. A new time for digital revolution 52</p>
<p>2.1.1. From the 19th Century revolution of the invention 54</p>
<p>2.1.2. to the 21st Century inventor–entrepreneur 56</p>
<p>2.1.3. The revolution in personal production 58</p>
<p>2.2. The rise of a new economic model 64</p>
<p>2.2.1. Links with the previous model, the centralized industrial economy 66</p>
<p>2.2.2. Breaking with the old model of centralized industrial economy 72</p>
<p>2.3. Innovation by the user 79</p>
<p>2.3.1. The distinctive identity of the user 80</p>
<p>2.3.2. The principled substrate of the new innovation model 85</p>
<p>2.4. The challenged economic system 92</p>
<p>2.4.1. Are owners still needed? 92</p>
<p>2.4.2. How can polluting emissions be reduced effectively? 93</p>
<p>2.4.3. Employment is dead, long live work! 95</p>
<p>2.4.4. From the vertical public to horizontal community 97</p>
<p>2.5. Conclusion: everything needs to be reinvented 101</p>
<p>2.5.1. The issue of ownership 101</p>
<p>2.5.2. The issue of subordination 103</p>
<p>2.5.3. The issue of measurement 103</p>
<p>Conclusion 107</p>
<p>Bibliography 109</p>
<p>Index 121</p>