Join us for FAB16 online!

This year, attend the fab lab annual conference events in hybrid mode! All symposia will be available as live streams on YouTube. Workshops and discussions will also take place online everywhere and in person in many cities by joining us through live.fablabs.io! Make sure you don't miss anything at the conference by activating a handy reminder in live.fablabs.io!

Join live.fablabs.io and you will be able to follow the full FAB16 schedule,  including event links, workshop descriptions, registration and much more! 

Preview the schedule

Join us online August 9-15, 2021 for FAB16 and The Fab City Summit, the annual meeting of the international fab lab network - this year both a hybrid and distributed event! Join makers from all over the world, professionals from multiple fields, global expert panelists and our terrific fab lab community. Attend world-class panels, demos, workshops, discussions and lab presentations from representatives from all over the planet!

Deadline extended! Apply by August 6!

Participate in the FAB16 Challenge!  This contest, sponsored by Dassault Systèmes, SOLIDWORKS Education and the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab, gives you the opportunity to think big and envision new ways of teaching and learning for the next decade.

Contest details:
▪️ The application has two component opportunities (big idea or tangible solution)
▪️ Whether you are an individual or a lab, you are invited to participate!
▪️ Two winners will receive a 95% scholarship to participate in either Fab Academy or Fabricademy educational programs
▪️ Your submission must be open source

FabCare Challenge During FAB16!

FabCare is a network that encourages makers and fab labs to work together to make health and care more inclusive and innovative by co-designing and developing solutions that improve people's lives with the end users involved in the design process. The goal is for the end products to be produced locally and shared globally so as to be easily replicated. 

The FAB16 FabCare award challenge, sponsored by the MakeOpaedics research project and the matrix gGmbH, is oriented towards developing a dynamic hand orthosis for assistance in different activities and applications, such as medicine, sports, work assistance, therapy and much more. We will explore agile innovation tools and learn how to implement these methods in your creative processes through this FAB16 FabCare challenge. As example, hands are one of the most precious resources of our body. If our hand or arm is injured, we would encounter many and various challenges. Our maker community could make a real contribution to the development of assistive systems to solve those challenges. 

The winner of this challenge will have the opportunity to develop a two-week sprint together with the innovation team at matrix gGmbH in Düsseldorf (Germany).

For more information please visit the link: 
https://matrix-gmbh.de/matrix-ggmbh/das-projekt-makeopaedics/ (in German)

FabCare has also launched their new platform ->  www.fabcare.network <- sign up to become a Node in the FabCare Network and and stay in touch !

FAB16 & CIRODD Summer School

Attend this CIRODD Summer School panel virtually at FAB16 : Mino Bimaadiziwin: weaving indigenous perspectives with the SDGs 

August 12, 11:10AM - 12:30PM EDT 

Only 20 tickets available!

A collaboration betweenFAb16 and the Fab City Montréal partner CIRODD, a research, development and reference center in the operationalization of sustainable development.

In the form of a discussion between different indigenous actors in the field of sustainability, this panel hopes to explore the different ways in which sustainability and the SDGs are shaped and understood by indigenous peoples.

Bilingual virtual event. Simultaneous interpretation will be available.