While Marc-Olivier has to take care of a surprise breakdown of the caravan’s transmission, Phonesavanh and Guillaume hoped in a taxi towards Longueuil for a meeting in a Fab Lab that was inaugurated the day before, at the education centre for adults Lemoyne-d’Iberville. There, we will meet the whole Fab Lab team, and Geneviève Moisan, who’s implicated in the launch of a textile Fab Lab in Montreal, and Frédéric Dardure from Trotec Canada.
What becomes possible?
- A Fab Lab encourage inter-structure : a school could achieve a project while getting help from different Fab Labs.
- Conversations regarding education.
- Integrative projects that diminishes the language barrier.
- Get to know better our country, bring both Canada closer together.
- Sharing knowledge about tools and machines.
- Have “travelling” workshops and people who teach them.
- Learn about the profession of other people through the flow of people throughout the network.
- Get to know who’s who.
- Budget issues:
- Is it possible to have a “mobile” budget?
- A shared budget to facilitate travel?
- How to get private financing interested?
- Important investment for the whole country?
- Informing society the importance of Fab Labs (civil society, businesses…)
- Help companies based on their concerns.
- Multiply the exchanges, ex.: invite a resident, ask for a technology that is needed, stimulating cash flow. Those meetings can also encourage new ideas.
- Sites to discover information and how to operate and manage a Fab Lab.
- The inter-structure would also help to know who are interested in Fab Labs.
- Get the appropriate help to launch a Fab Lab, based on its context.
- Learn about the capacity of other Fab Labs.
- Start the discussion on open innovation at a larger scale; invite universities to talk publicly about the openness phenomena.
- Develop research and innovation paths between universities and research centers.
- Organize events together! (could this be a Fab Labs fest in Montreal?)
- Organize year-round technical support for the workshops.
- Put forth everyone’s contribution outside of school, their city.
- Better understand what is in the network…
