TY - JOUR
T1 - Migratory movements of homo faber
T2 - 16th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design, CAAD 2015
AU - Sperling, David M.
AU - Herrera, Pablo C.
AU - Scheeren, Rodrigo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Digital fabrication
KW - Fab labs
KW - Latin america
KW - Mapping
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84983438058
M3 - Artículo de la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84983438058
SN - 1865-0929
VL - 527
SP - 405
EP - 421
JO - Communications in Computer and Information Science
JF - Communications in Computer and Information Science
Y2 - 8 July 2015 through 10 July 2015
ER -