The African Fabbers project is a social innovation and
non-profit initiative promoted by Urban FabLab. The project is based on the
idea of bridging the African and the European makers communities through
workshops, collaborative projects, talks etc.
The workshops were developed in order to share an
opportunity to creative clusters from different continents and backgrounds to
meet up and share knowledge, to investigate the interaction between African
material systems and computer aided design technologies.
The African Fabbers project is curated by Paolo Cascone with
Urban FabLab and Maria.
Giovanna Mancini.
The project is supported among the others by: COdesignLab,
Fondazione Idis/Città della Scienza (Italy), Fondazione Architetti e Ingegneri
Liberi Professionisti iscritti INARCassa.
Among the African partners of the project : Ker Thiossane,
Afropixel, Dakar Biennale.
Wasp, as technological partner, will give us the possibility
to explore the potentialities of the Big Delta prototype, one of the biggest
and most ecological 3d printing machine worldwide.
Among the local partners of the project in Morocco: the ESAV
- Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels, the CFQMAM - Centre de Formation et
Qualification dans les Métiers de l’Artisanat, the Voice Gallery and the
Association of Marrakech Biennale.
The African Fabbers project has developed an itinerant fab
lab putting emphasis
on the open source hardware approach for sustainable
technologies an urban ecologies.
Therefore we have realized the first two steps participating
at both the Marrakech and
Dakar art Biennale where we have organized free workshops
opened to African and
European creatives, makers, st dents and artisans selected
by the local cultural institutions
and by an open public call.
The workshops were developed in order to share an
opportunity to creative clusters
from different continents and backgrounds to meet up and
share knowledge, to investigate
the interaction between African material systems and
computer aided manufacturing
technologies, to create ecological prototypes through an
advanced craftsmanship
approach for sustainable living.
The team:
responsible scientific:
Paolo Cascone / AA-MA PhD-Ing.
Elena Ciancio, Flavio Galdi, Giuliano Galluccio, Andrea
Giglio, Imma Polito