Abstract
The present paper is a mapping study of digital fabrication laboratories in Latin America. It presents and discusses results from a survey with 31 universities’ fab labs, studios and independent initiatives in Latin America. The objective of this study is fourfold: firstly, to draw the cultural, social and economic context of implementation of digital fabrication laboratories in the region; secondly, to synthesize relevant data from correlations between organizational structures, facilities and technologies, activities, types of prototypes, uses and areas of application; thirdly, to draw a network of people and institutions, recovering connections and the genealogy of these fab labs; and fourthly, to present some fab labs that are intertwined with local questions. The results obtained indicate a complex “homo faber” network of initiatives that embraces academic investigations, architectural developments, industry applications, artistic propositions and actions in social processes.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 405-421 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Communications in Computer and Information Science |
| Volume | 527 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
| Event | 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design, CAAD 2015 - São Paulo, Brazil Duration: 8 Jul 2015 → 10 Jul 2015 |
Keywords
- Digital fabrication
- Fab labs
- Latin america
- Mapping
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