thank you okay welcome to the all in recitation uh up until now the recitations have shown projects today is different because the recitation became the project a few years ago we did a recitation on diversity Equity inclusion and an amazing group that pulled that together didn't want to stop that became this group and along the way they also generalized the name to fabolin which they'll explain so Joel well I'd like to say welcome bienvenido bienvenue from uh all of us here um would you all like to say welcome as well from the team in all languages at once yes in all languages at once welcome Bienvenidos so this is uh this is the Fab all in team um this is a as Neil said this started from uh um uh an interest in and an effort around diversity equity and inclusion we realize that this network is extraordinarily diverse and um but we also understand that we're uh not always inclusive and it may not be because we intend to be non-inclusive but if we are inclusive we are more successful in every way that you can think of and so um and so really this was about uh we decided what we really wanted to do and needed to do was to look into the network and see what were the practices that others were doing in the network that were beautiful and inclusive and help them succeed because many of many Labs suffer from the same things you know suffer from the same challenges and many of those challenges is have been solved by others and solved in beautiful and different ways and so really what this is about is tapping into the Mind share of the network to find those beautiful success stories and share those practices across the network and so uh it's a beautiful course we love it we piloted it last year and this team did an incredible job of pulling together really interesting ideas and best practices and we learned so much from all of you from the community that we now want to we want to continue this process to continue to encourage the development of uh wonderful beautiful practices around inclusion and equity and uh and also to share those practices across the network and so to talk a little bit about a little bit more about this uh I'd like to turn it over to Megan Megan Smith hi everybody um next slide up we have to join um a little bit just quickly about what we're going to do and this is a what we sometimes call Rapid share you know uh one slide I think uh one or two minutes and each of the people from the network are going to give a sampler you know just a taste of what uh you can or what already exists in the world a lot of times when we're working on diversity Equity inclusion topics people kind of say to the people in the room with them what should we do about this and they they kind of reinvent ideas and that's an okay practice but if you actually instead of looking down look up and say I wonder who has already fixed this in some form and what does that form take you can actually move a lot faster one thing I'll share just in in the chat is that MIT like every institution in the world is working on this and they reframe the Dei conversation recently to belonging what does it feel to be like here achievement is everybody able to be a leader be technical has ever been able to do anything thing or not do we have an imbalance and three composition what's our makeup relative to the population around us are we missing some people and then the infrastructures so you can see we'll get into these different pieces shortly what I want to do now um before we get into a couple things I'm going to the next slide just to share that we're putting together a zine that goes deeper with many of the different colleagues and again anyone welcome everyone welcome every topic welcome so we could work on anything in Fab Labs that's our goal um and so how are we making that true that social environmental health whatever topic of the world somebody wants to work on that they feel like this is a place where they work on that they want to write poems whatever it is they want to do they feel that welcome they belong and that we're working against lots of bi to to reduce biases so you'll see some of our colleagues who are who became our curriculum um you know a co-inventors on this so I think the next step we want to um benno we want to do an exercise right in a minute I'm going to stop sharing the screen and so that Bennett can do his exercise but just as an overview um we're going to have a set of sessions that Rico is going to introduce on systemic all in Impact Nuri is going to introduce a set of sessions on the natural and cultural context Sherry is going to introduce a set of sessions on economic Vitality uh and benno is going to do introduce a set of sessions on changing systems together all of which are in the spirit of what Megan has said which is that the ideas are out there if we look up and look around and each presentation will just be two minutes so it's a teaser but I'm going to stop sharing my screen hold on one second I got one more thing to go so and the solution for Lisa we'll talk about in a sec but go too forward okay so I want to share this just for framing uh this is just you know you can find wonderful things on the internet here's some data that I found that shows who gets to speak in movies is there 2 000 super popular films and I shared because the blue is male lines and the pink is or the the red is women's line with female lines and just the society we're in has all kinds of biases this graphic is a really good way to show us you know imbalance around us we want to hear from our men and our women uh in a balanced way so it's sharing this you can see at the bottom it's children's um TV also we're teaching none of us made this world we grow into it and when we're children we teach children that the men speak more or boys the women speak less or girls even films like these this happens to be Disney Mulan and Frozen are more than 50 Milan is 70 boys lines and also as we get older men get more lines in TV so you want to be what you see so we just did is we're going to even introduce our program not with us as MCS but each of us sharing voice so you can be what you see that everyone around the world can be the leader in the emcee Joel I don't think we have a second slide here do we just historically this was just sharing that a lot of times technology is considered the realm of a more male realm especially computer science and coding we see that in so many of our school programs but I just want to share on the left that a woman at the same time as Darwin worked in the in the mid-1800s invented algorithms Lord Byron's poet math daughter and that today they're talking about some of the work at Bletchley Park where they broke the codes during World War II to be able to um hear uh Nazis and Christian things and and they are credited on the bottom there The Duchess of cambridge's great aunt and grandmother that two-thirds of the women at Bletchley Park who broke the codes were two-thirds of people were women technical women uh and on the right here Ida B Wells at the top Jane Adams in the Second Industrial Age they were working to do justice with data and technology and Ida just won the Pulitzer Prize here in the US two years ago for really what was Black lives matter data science work in the late 1800s and she also worked with Frederick Douglass famous other civil rights leader here to um try to get an African-American exhibition in the Chicago World's Fair we have a colleague in all in who's in the Chicago buildings from uh that time 1892 they were not allowed sad so everyone can present except you and so the sculptors and inventors and the Fab members of that day were not allowed if you want to read that pamphlet it's called the reason why or Jane Adams who was using technology for the community a wise city not a just smart city but a smart wise city for the people involved so just kind of lift these histories because a lot of times people's history get evaporated um and yet we can stand on the shoulders of these Heroes and know that everyone was always all in even if they weren't recorded in history so thanks everybody for being here it's sort of a stone soup production from the Fable in France where we work together to see what already exists and catalyze ourselves to be able to make that true as soon as possible in our own Labs um in a collaborative fun way so by the way um Jane Adams became is the founder of the field that we now call social work yeah so why wouldn't social work be deeply considered a computer science field and yet they're in two different buildings A lot of times although I'll tell you that the USC for Toby school is now working together with their social work so the opportunity is here for all topics especially the justice and equality topics environmental topics and others I think that's the last slide we have on this run right you don't have this okay thank you and thank you Megan Cherry we are super happy to share with you uh this game we call the simbaio game please come to the link that I face in the chat and you will find an interface this interface so we have created this to measure the level of integration and synchronization of the group and this tool consists in create an image that could be recognizable for everybody at the end of one minute um to create something you you can choose the color at the bottom and then Mark in the canvas please try to do it and you will see the change in real time here I hope you can come in that yes we can see audio changes thank you so much we are testing that this is working and here's our goal we have to build together in one minute an image that will be recognizable for everybody at the end the only condition is you cannot talk or shot previously or agree for other medium about what to do all the communication has to be done through this interface are you ready okay let's do it one two three start so the clock is ticking you have one minute yes 40 seconds okay okay 20 seconds we have to see thing five four three two one stop what do we have here what do you think any volunteer please feel free to open your microphone and share with us your impressions and your experience I think this group is oriented towards abstract art abstract workout yes all right maybe a Stairway up on the left yeah maybe an elephant in the middle what do we say about our level of synchronization through this image someone said Volcano by the way yeah well in my experience in more than five years doing this challenge more than 95 percent fail to generate a reconnaissable image in the in the first iteration last year it was amazing and really I would have to work on it if you see that video of the previous year of this version it was really crazy and outside of any statistic but this is common this is natural this is what usually happen when we want to make something together yeah for many different reasons for example yeah we are here like a more a mechanical or Randall randomly action no I am marking because well I want to test I want to approach to others Etc and also maybe because I have the best predisposition predisposition to collaborate debate the best attitude to collaborate but I am trying to impose an image not to maybe I say well I want to make a car I want to make a flower or a tree and I have this idea and want to do it but I feel that nobody want to do that and so at the end I felt frustrated thinking that the collaboration does not work because nobody do what I want to do so what kind of attitude do you think will help us or pull uh bring us more possibilities to create a collaborative image what kind of I don't know actions if we want to recreate that do you think will works better any idea watching what people other people are doing and trying to follow their leads somehow like getting a intuitive sense of like which directions a few people are going maybe that is a key point Thank you super Megan exactly you know take up to take a post no not just Mark just C connect empathy of course and also blunt mind don't come with any idea just to connect with others and just create these relations and identifying opportunities in others contributions any other on any other idea comment please and we are close to time yes okay well just a final reflection this game it's about how to integrate radar than impulse thank you thank you thank you friends thank you okay so I think the next point is this uh that uh again this idea you know Neil you gave us this idea um early on of uh go ready set or is that go ready if they you know sort of getting together first and so this is an example a global example some people may be aware of the sustainable development goals um set by the UN in 2015 which are like the Millennium development goals they are there on the left you can see them um and I would share that one of the things we did was we just asked using social media and email and all kinds of different Outreach who is not what we should do we do what do you think but who's already fixing these goals what are you doing in the world what are you already doing in and maybe there's a regional solution fully baked maybe there's a prototype maybe there's something and then what we do is uh we the first time we get 800 emails into the UN in three weeks from 131 countries that we did it for five years um and then in the fifth year 1400 submissions from 141 countries and like two three to four weeks and then 400 of the people wanted to be on the Review Committee and so a thousand Solutions you know that you would have never known about just because someone bothered to fill out a simple form on the internet so these are examples on the left is women textures to Vera you know teaching amazing uh coding boot camps across much of Africa women joining uh into the tech sector there and into the tech sector globally so just being aware and then the main thing about the events that we did was not only did we hear from the innovator but you see the round tables that's an islands of innovation uh working in Hawaii did innovators give a quick pitch like our what we're going to hear you know maybe a little longer we went four minutes what are they working on what's working why Etc and then we sit down and we do two-thirds yes and one-third yes but um two-thirds yes and means how can I help you what kind of Partnerships ideas what kind of funding business what can I think of are there youth who could help this person move faster um or this team and then everyone needs a little critique so one-third yes but a little bit of critique like I'm not sure this works um so really interesting way of community organizing Innovation and that's really how we as a leadership team of everybody all in created this curriculum is really looking for who was already in almost like a guild the old guilds Apprentice Journey Mastery who already was already at Mastery you know an example people are trying to get more gender balance in their Fab Lab well as Nuria people are trying to figure out a business model you know let's ask uh Rico and he's doing people are trying to start like we just did with this thing start with the community first and then move into making ask benno you know people are doing amazing things with rural well let's ask pradnya so you know just we can have these Elite capable teammates out there and that's what this un solution Summit was about last thing I'll just mention is this DQ Institute crowdsourced all the kinds of digital skills you could have and look at that stunning thing I'll put the link to it that we could be teaching not just coding and not just about gaming some kids love gaming but people like other things you know all the things we could do so just remembering on the left at the top an effort there's joy and everyone can have joy in their effort and how do we frame Fab Lab in that way and how do we work with these Master folks so I think that's the only slide here is that correct so the solution and I have the unhappy job of monitoring time and so um forgive me for moving us along uh but thank you uh the U.N sustainable goals do provide a high level Vision that motivates us all um and in the spirit of what Megan has shared Rico take us into the first section okay great um so for the first section uh we're dealing with systemic all in Impact um as as Fab Lab members managers and instructors we know how to make things uh building machines programming digitally fabricating our skills we have put into practice every single day but as Fab Labs however we tend to self-isolate rather than extend ourselves to those who making is not an instinct or or those that are marginalized from the Fab ecosystem because the of economic challenges gender or simple uh lack of awareness of what we do so reaching out what we do and has uh yeah reaching out and sharing what we do has the potential to do more than uh self uh gratify or self-benefit uh by offering access to those who have been intentionally or unintentionally excluded uh we we can uh do more for for our community for the world uh we have three uh speakers coming up here who have done those things uh have made an effort to reach out and address uh exclusionary uh situations uh and and find a solution for them we start off with uh Nuria please take it away and by the way that's the sound that you'll hear at two minutes thank you so much for the introduction and yes I will try to explain why we in Florida Leon are focused in education and girls covering the sde number four and five the reality is that more girls are in school today than ever before but they do not have always the same opportunities as boys to complete and benefit from an education of their choice kelsang woman are particularly underrepresented in stem education and consequently investing careers these genders disparities alarming alarming especially as stem careers are often referred to as the jobs of the future driving Innovation social well-being inclusive growth and sustainable development for this reason UNESCO is dedicating part of its effort to promote empowerment of girls and women through education taking this lead these are our strategies to bring technology closer to girls and encourage their participation in Steam fields we think that the starting girls with girls from seven years old in Steam activities that allows them to acquire skills and Confidence from an early age is good we think that inviting the families of the girls to participate in the activities of habla Leon is good because this creates a welcoming and community community environment that facilitates learning and collaboration we think also that offering inspiring and motivating talks that show the potential the potential of technology and sting careers and highlight the importance of inclusivity inclusion of diversity on these areas is also good and of course we encoded girls of different age to collaborate with different girls and teach to each other for all of this reason we believe that start with girls in an early age is school is good for this inclusion thank you so much boy that was a loud timer thank you so much next right so uh next I believe is pradnya with the rural sustainability so hello everyone I hope I am audibles okay great uh so I'm uh pradnya from India it's a coastal side of Maharashtra uh the ratnagiri place near the Bombay so in rural sustainability I am just trying to contribute little from my side I have previous work experience more than seven years in vigyan ashram which is famous for the ruler development and ruler technology so nowadays the migration is a big issue in rural India because for the employment education these people are trying to migrate in the city area so uh as per this did you go I'm trying to like use one two three four five like education for all employment no poverty no hunger so in that way I'm doing few things so I just want to showcase here so uh uh what I'm exactly doing so it's like ensuring the use of advanced technology and employment in rural area because in rural area we have so much traditional methods are available to process the foods process the farming uh or any purpose so uh for example this battle nut is people are like doing by manually like by hand so I have recently made this kind of machine uh I think Joel can you please play that video the student so these students are coming to our lab and this is the IBT program introduction to basic technology it's uh conducted by the vigyan ashram and I'm associated with it uh for mentoring purpose so these students like identify the problems like it is very Co-op time consuming process so we like use the traditional method to uh not in digital petition fabrication way uh second is uh mango Pearl paper mango pulp maker so there is a mango roller available in India I think or maybe some of you all know about this desert things continuously so these students from their beauty schools they have made the pulp maker we actually put the sensor over it so after certain temperature reach so it stopped heating the uh that container and it continuously stirring at the same temperature so these things are doing as a traditional to digital way then second is like introducing the Okay no Okay so that's also like we are trying to reach out the people educated them and just trying to make some projects with them thank you so much thank you everyone thank you so much open our final speaker for the section is Doula who's uh reaching out to yeah non-makers um basically uh just to explain the solution I think I have to sort of explain the problem uh we were having a bit of an issue uh with reaching mostly casual participants and I feel like that might be an issue with a lot of Fab labs around the world where people that are non-makers are super intimidated to come into the Fab Lab and actually like learn what the Fab Lab is about they just feel like it's not for them so um we've done a bunch of like uh surveys asking people trying to figure out like what's going on why is the valve lab so scary why are you so scared to get there so um one thing that was reported is that the events we did seemed so intimidating so we do an event that was like learn how to program a robotic arm in different programming languages and just kind of like scare people so here the solution or like what we're working towards is creating um clubs geared towards like non-makers to kind of make the Fab Lab a place for everyone not intimidating so the key here is kind of going for things that are quick so like one to two hours uh low effort so someone coming in would have to put in a ton of effort and low commitment kind of like trying to help out people that were just scared about the idea of fabrication so uh one of the things we're planning to Pilot or launch are a design Club where people can come in and kind of like design together in like a non-intimidating setting using any design software a tech documentation documentaries Club where people can come in watch a documentary together and like discuss it afterwards very low effort very low commitment and then uh scan the world which is we're hoping to kind of like scan 3D scan different landmarks so what you see like the pictures on the right are parts of kind of like our first events kind of like trying to launch this which was kind of like a casual Gathering uh on where people came together were eating food playing games together that were in a way kind of like related to technology but not so scary and we got some really good feedback there so hopefully we're moving into launching clubs very soon super and that's time uh and I might say that duo was in the sessions that we did last fall and at the end proposed this and now she's moving forward with her proposal exactly super uh the next section Nuria take us away hello everyone again I am very happy to introduce the natural and cultural context we are we are living three nice explanation from the Amazons and in the part of Beno that is a former student of Fabrica Fab Academy and also the founder of fabda Peru and then we will go to to the materium that is a digital library of materials and then we will also listen to Adrian Torres from Pablo of Leon that he has completed the manifesto but the Fab Lab culture Hawaii is important so important to make this culture in all of the organization but also in in a Fab Lab and he's a former students for the fabolin so I want to introduce it with the Amazon Gardens then please thank you Nuria I have prepared this video for you I hope you will enjoy it please thank you the party is the largest fish in the Amazon rainforest adapted to navigate its rivers of turbid waters leading with Organic sediments that hinder visibility and decrease oxygen in the water that is why this fabulous fish have a bladder that functions as a kind of primitive lung allowing it to compensate for its oxygen deficiency by surfacing to taking Loops of air our drinks can also be like a journey in tour with Waters where we are uncertaining about when exactly we will achieve what we are looking for and where the prolonged nature of the journey can make us lose motivation breath and oxygen the floating fob lab Amazon is a long-term dream conceived from the long of the world and sustain it thanks to the oxygen of many of you today it gains a new momentum to an alliance with the creator of PS platform for Social Action that bring government services to the most remote communities in the Amazon where there are no medical polls Banks Etc its creator is a mariner Jorge Moscoso and his vision captivating me from the fierce moment he told me the first level of National Security is education and inclusion wow only then we can win followers away from drug trafficking illegal logging Etc today Jorge opens up the PS project to add it to the requirements of the flooring fat which will contain a Fab Lab a bio lab a nutritional astronomy lab an Ecolab and accommodation for 20 crew members Master is telling us to don't remain still to choose uncertitude over inertia and to anticipate extra oxygen so we don't give up on the journey thank you so much super thank you so much Thanos and we are pleased is the largest fish I want to welcome also to introduce pillar volume Guru from material pular hi nudia and thank you for inviting me my name is Pilar and I work as a designer and material researcher at humanitarium and material is a platform that supports organizations and communities to develop their own sustainable materials with local and abundant biomass so similar to fabrication that enables local manufacturing we also need local materials that align with sustainable goals a great example of this is a collaboration with it with Fab Lab austrial the most southern fat lab on an island in the south of Chile that you can only access by air of sea or C the same condition makes it very difficult to Source Products and materials from the continents so we found that there were tons of ways from spider crab fishing that is one of the main commercial activities of the island so from the shells of the crabs if you can extract chidin that is an incredible natural molecule that you can use to make biomaterials with great properties that are not toxic and that they can buy a great eventually into the environments so you can see in the photo some examples of the process and how that makes of deal fabrication and do it yourself fermentation process we explore for a year the potential materials that can be made locally and this is still an ongoing project but has helped to engage the local community with the Fab Lab and to open options to for them to create their own materials and also based on that research we are also conducting a similar product now on the Galapagos Islands so they present a similar challenge because they are also an island and also this type of development as like biodeal materials also help to address the huge problem they have now around plastic pollution and their natural environments thank you super thank you so much and and last but not least Adrian hello thank you so much Nuria my name is Adrian Torres I'm from Fall of Leon during the five hourly we had to sing a solution palusa and in my case it was at the color of Manifesto about the fat lab culture and who are the different people that surrounded lab and the connections between them but before I had to analyze the Roses the Thrones and the boots around the around me was the first session for me the Roses had been my Discovery years ago of the fun lovely on the people the new friends and the new family the kovid arrived and the terms was was the terms and it had to be renewed we began to train children and the young people then in the next session it was about asking five questions what why who when and where and answer it with how and we all know that it's difficult to answer the question in synthesized for me everything had an answer to people so see my Evolution Apprentice volunteer a student instructor everything was related that's what my idea for the fala culture the fala culture Manifesto was wrong and in the schematic you can see the result of the analysis everything is connected this analysis can be used to find a community of any fun lab and I want to summarize with a phrase for Nuria it's difficult to work alone thank you so much super and I see Vanessa has a hand up did you want to make a comment Vanessa did you want to make a comment with your handout you're muted no okay uh well uh next up the Sherry take us into economic vitality so yes so this is a um something that is very important to the network is uh the economic vitality and sustainability of our labs and the our ability to support uh Innovations and new ideas across the network and so these our next wonderful speakers are are going to tell us different stories about their Innovations and their uh their vitality and how they maintain and sustain that so I think we'd love to start with you Rico uh around economic independence uh Rico uh is from Kamakura Japan and he's gonna he's one of the leaders of this uh of this work as well Rico okay thanks Sherry um so uh in in my time as a member of the Fab Lab Community a topic of discussion that arises often is uh Fab Lab economic sustainability it's a problem that uh everyone complains about uh as a former company analyst and investor I I rolled over this question and uh believed that I might have come up with something of a solution um so the fact is uh within the global economic engine uh small and medium Enterprises accounts for 90 of global businesses 50 of employment and very importantly forty percent of uh the global gross domestic product of many nations um so I noticed that all over Japan there are lots and lots of mom and pop businesses uh places like ramen shops as an example that have been in business for decades uh so I I thought that why not look to these small businesses as model for running an independent uh sustainable Fab Lab um since they've been so successful I'm sure in your city and wherever you're located there are small businesses that have been around for many many years and perhaps they could be the ones to advise you on how to uh keep going uh for for years and years with your fav band so as just a quick run of some of the techniques that I think are are uh I I've noticed in looking at these companies or these businesses is a brutal uh recurring income and expense management every Fab Lab has to deal with monthly rent uh labor costs utility costs but very few have plans for how to generate revenue on a regular basis so a small business owner has this as a priority because you know the failure of their business means the failure of their family to survive so they take it very seriously the second idea here is that all equipment in the lab should pay rent and by this I mean don't buy any machine that will not generate Revenue don't don't have it as a placeholder or decoration within your lab but it should be something that could be a part of a class or a service and paced itself up maybe two quick thing is you know it's less painful to scale up and down down so spiral development the the growth of your business and lastly be valuable to your regular regulars and your local community these are the people that will keep make sure that you stay alive for years and years and years thank you thank you Rico this is excellent advice um now we're going to go to uh to Indonesia to satyawan who is working with the yoga open Innovation for Community enhancement so uh we'd love to hear from you uh okay thank you uh hi everyone I'm Steven from Indonesia thank you for giving me the opportunity to share our project namely Choice uh Innovation for Community enhancement uh we the Flop video in District area with a high property lists and the majority of the population here are farmers uh the main problem here is that the traditional farmer especially for women from a group are still acting behind the technology and also we have a poor formal regeneration because the young people are not interested in the farming because their assumption that the farming is a rough work so we purpose this project to introduce this and to introduce the digital fabrication from the community around the Fab Lab and how they can make Innovation to solve their problem in agricultural sector and thereby in Christ their income this project in for a stakeholder from the University industry government and Community there are several activities starting with an agreement and commitment with all the stakeholders to support the open Innovation program in society and then we help and facilitate facilitate the community to identify what their problem are not just their desire but the root of their problem in the agriculture sector and we in fact own stakeholder to jointly to find the solution for from a problem and make it an A Sketch solution uh from the result of the schedulation we make prototype together with the farmer of course there are also shortcuts using Fab Lab equipment for the example how to make sprinkle system for Education with IOD system and our hope is that by introducing the digital fabricas internally to the farmer supported by the government industry they can be yeah Innovation for better life thank you thank you so much that was uh that was really interesting to to understand how you could do this at a community scale and do it well and uh we really appreciate that um next we have um a different kind of innovation this is targeted at the text style and fashion industry in a way this is the fabric Academy program which is led by Cecilia responti and Anastasia and they I don't believe they're here today but on their behalf I believe Nuri is going to um present something about this wonderful innovation yes and and started with with her baby so she asked me just to to say some some words so yeah this this amazing idea uh and also with our beloved fiori uh start five years ago and the and and they started as we started with the fabolene so they have prepared a very nice video that we can see in the next slide please fabric Adam is a transdisciplinary course at the intersection of textiles digital fabrication and biology [Music] if you would imagine a dream program how would it be [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] we are talking about understanding our environment our context and creating together join Public Enemy and that's all thank you so much I love it oh my goodness um okay so uh the the the the sort of last presentation in this economic Vitality grouping is uh by Vanessa Castillo akicho sorry Vanessa and um we met in Peru many many years ago for Fab seven uh Fab seven that's a long time ago uh and she has uh she is just an amazing force and we'd love to hear from you about your carpentry ecosystem thank you hello everybody my name is Vanessa Kaicho and I am a carpenter from from many many years and in 2012 I began the experiment of merging traditional carpentry with digital Fabrication in Peru I couldn't put aside the important knowledge of our Master Carpenters like my grandfather and I wanted to document all those experiences on his expertise in digital version like the Fab Academy ifurniture startup and the fabla by Furniture in the carpentry Workshop in a school in Lima Peru and I am promoting this hybrid called digital carpentry so my solution palusa is to build a carpentry ecosystem this community has been a source of inspiration for us which is why we have created a solution to health and integrate Carpenters with designers makers and fathers and our proposal is to have a very very worldwide hybrid to integrate carpenters in our Fab Lab Network and this project will benefit local Artisans and local carpenters and I think this is one of our solution to integrate more communities in our new industrial Productions and actually this model it's a is is actually working in Peru and I am living in other countries and actually I am creating a first experiment like this one this is a the llamas causing the llamas constant calls alpaca so we are trying to promote our culture and our knowledge from Peru for others other other countries so we can do it with an ecosystem Carpenters to integrate people Artisans and designers together thank you very much wonderful thank you Vanessa so the final presentations benno take us into the last four thank you thank you friends well changing systems together promotes Collective actions these people um are sharing programs and different projects to bring or to share responsibility to bring about Mindful and impactful transformation in different systems it implies that change is not a solitary labor but requires requires the effort of multiple individuals groups and working in Union so our fear system changer it's the mega woman super mega Smith from Chief seven who is shared with us about tech and learning bias welcome hi everybody yeah just um this this is an image just to show a positive side of the tech how we can go where we can go for Tech learning you've already heard amazing genius people who are doing the same idea I was uh had the chance to work for President Obama as the United States Chief technology officer and so you might take that job as I'm doing technology but really it was about empowerment empowerment using technology science these topics for any topic and so this is an example of a community organizing of innovation that we did so across the world there's these Tech meetups you know you many of you have been to some of these if you haven't there's one near you you'll be surprised look them up and these people are meeting and they're cross sharing what they're doing so we invited 50 people and you see all these cities Albuquerque Anchorage all people from the cities who are organizing you know we have a state Idaho Boise Idaho has 15 Tech meetups and one of them it has 800 people in it and I'm telling you nobody else but them in Boise knows about it so how can we get more people in and how can we make sure that the topic on the stage or that we're presenting is going to be of interest to the other people who are going to join like the example of the non-makers they're really makers in a different sector maybe their history or uh policy or other things the second thing we did was very similar to what we're doing here we invited 50 people who already had really cool programs that brought people in I'll just say one wreck attack an old Rec Center basketball this kind of stuff that they made at tech center a Fab Lab little kids big kids Mega was high school Nano was little kids High School teachers little kids Etc so this is just getting each other in the same method two slides two minutes and then sit down together and realize wow and by the way one time I can do that so I'll let you go but the next one I already mentioned the next slide is just about the United Nations solution Summit Joe if you advance it yeah uh that's just the same thing and just in the corner there is Gaza you know we hear such sad and tough things from Gaza right now but this is our innovators in Gaza working together so anywhere we go and in the left is a place uh initiative so I'll hand off to the next teammate but just Community organize ourselves in these ways that we can really move faster thank you thank you Megan amazing so our second system changer it's Master Blair from Detroit who is sharing with us about Community self-sufficient welcome super player yeah we're not hearing you oh yeah it's not good we're hearing just a little bit we can hear some sound but not really you do you want to sign off and sign on we'll go to the next one and come back to you yeah let's try that um and otherwise I can share a little bit but I can't substitute for Blair um so uh Sherry why don't you do Fab city okay so Beno and I are going to talk about this this Fab city if you think about the un's sustainable development goals it's about solving the world's greatest challenges right and this is at a global scale and at a national scale they really are trying to make systems change Fab city is a project that's trying to make systems change using digital fabrication to create sustainable uh product producing and consuming in sustainable ways so it's looking at the city scale the regional scale and the community scale and it's really about can we import data and export data but all of our supplies materials the supply chain the manufacturing the distribution and the um and the recycling all happens in the city in the community Etc and so that's really what it's about and it's about a framework we've got about 41 cities uh uh and kingdoms and I'll islands and communities signed up around this framework for how do we build a sustainable world and how do we solve these challenges together through digital fabrication recently uh in the last few years we've been to do very interesting Concrete Solutions with community and I want to turn this over to benno to talk a little bit about that thank you Cherry yes maybe you could ask to yourself wow that is great but I am not a mayor how could I participate of the network please check next slide so there are many possibilities if you want to join the Fab city program these are one of the most famous uh challenge no the the last year it was in Bali and this year we have in Bhutan uh this five city challenge with five amazing topics that will integrate local communities with the global communities in order to address this Global Chief uh in relative to cities but yeah well by the moment this is closed but if you want to participate in another activities I encourage to you to go to Hub City webpage and see all the programs and all the opportunities that you have for example the bio Regional approach tomorrow for people in Latin America there is a talk about that if you want more details I will share with you in the in the chat not the the register link thank you so much great and we are at time um do we have a link now for Blair can you hear me now at all much better okay yeah okay so very quickly uh so if I focus is really focused around using digital fabrication and Fab Labs as a strong anchor for a community-based production it mixes in agroecology and some other things also and so we have discovered over time that we really need to make an impact on the conditions around our production Center to allow full participation in it so we recently relocated from Detroit to uh historic black community in a more rural part of Michigan and the community was initially started as a resort Community during times of legal and kind of practical segregation it's called Idlewild Michigan the community has a really good natural resource base and it has a history of kind of making a way out of no way um given its kind of origin story and so you know really really we are really focused on deepening the implementation of community production and doing that within the context of the carrying capacity of the area that we're in we can't deal with global planetary boundaries here but we can deal with the carrying capacity of the land that we are that we're stewarding and be trying to be in the right relationship with and so our specific kind of inclusion divisions here that are producing challenges are around racial you know we had a community in a Township that have radically different um racial mixtures that are kind of segregated within their pockets um cultural especially in this political environment um generational seasonal versus year-round born here versus transplants um fortunately we don't have a significant gender balance actually most of our community and government leadership is women um and a participation kind of goes from top to bottom but all these divisions really get activated when we began trying to use Community production within a solidarity economy kind of framework because you're driving change and people have their vested interest in mind with the changes and so if you could kind of flipped to the next slide for a second you know in the process of of maybe we're close to time Blair okay so we're focused on kind of government change in addition to community level change in addition to changes in our workplace environment and we started deeply collaborating with the solidarity economy folks across the United States to bring in expertise in committee land trusts and worker co-ops to base our work within the Fab Lab and the Fab Lab work in the community around distributive economic mechanisms that have Democratic models and we've been able to have a significant impact on our local government to develop more transparency and more Community participation so the environment that we're operating within seems fair enough for people to be able to feel that they're heard and can participate in kind of future looking possibilities around changing from working and buying stuff to innovating and making stuff super and that's actually yeah let me introduce Lee Superior yes and to close this group of changing system we have an amazing changer of systems of course Superior who is going to talk about large scale system change welcome Superior thank you um so the picture you see in the upper right hand corner uh is a picture that I took of Dominique in 2004. today I'm told she's in graduate school studying engineering uh this was in the very first or second Fab Lab depending on how you counted in the South End of Boston and that's an example of coming from the community from the ground up just as Blair was saying in his presentation there's important things happening from the ground up from the neighborhood but if you go down to the picture below this is the Fab Lab in Champaign-Urbana which I helped to start when I was at the University of Illinois and there was also a top-down quality in that we had to get Space allocated did we had to get support from various folks to launch and build out the lab what I will tell you is that the technology took less than six months to install and get up and running while the social system the Committees the groups took about three years to really come together so the ground up Social is harder than the technical and that gets to my last point which is work that I've done in the article that you see on the far left which is not just top down and bottom up but we'll call middle across reaching out to boys clubs Girls Clubs reaching out to ministers to community churches and others to do horizontal or lateral alignment of the Fab Lab in the community and the article that you see in the middle is an article that I wrote with Neil and our brother Alan that all of this can come together top down bottom up and middle across to represent a different model of self-sufficient production in our communities so that's a very quick vision of large-scale systems change and we're really a time to say how does this all add up into a solution palooza by the way about a third of the presentations you heard today were folks that showed up for the first Fab all in and that were then nominated for this presentation but let me hand it back to Megan yeah so just to wrap up thank you everybody who presented and your Genius work um everybody listening two things might be happening for you one you might be like oh my God I learned I wanna I've been trying to figure out I want to learn more about that or these 10 things or all of them or whatever it is the second thing is that you may have something already that you're doing probably many of you do and so you can bring that Insight that Innovation that capability to this network you know we haven't had an internet as Humanity at the level that we have now and so the use of it can be for many things but certainly one of them is for solving and and those who've solved already sharing faster across and iterating together so we I think we'll leave you with this um the idea of solutions palooza you know Solutions Jam is when we're working on trying to figure stuff out if we can bring different kinds of people together we'll be more effective and a blues is when we show up so our our curriculum really has a sharing component of what's already there and an introspection component for you where you're looking at roses buds Thorns meaning things that growing great things that are really not going great and things that are emergent a bud that you could check into and reflecting and thinking through what you want to do and running through an interactive program uh uh with all these colleagues to learn more about what they're doing and spend some time with you and your teams and your community to reflect on what how you might take some of this genus into the local spaces in whatever Dimension you want or how you might also join us as faculty with the things that you have already had there so thank you if I could let me ask a question which is the recitation became a working group The working group became then a trial program through Academy look ahead to the future plan are you going to do another cycle talk about the schedule yeah Jill I don't know anybody we we together think we'll do another cycle of the program in the fall the same same kind of curriculum and we're going to add we learned people wanted to go deeper so in addition to the five sessions that cover really what you just heard but a little deeper and conversations and iteration by those coming through the workshop we're going to add some office hour recitation so we could go even deeper in those um which will be great and the key is that a lot of people are faced with these challenges you know in these days of artificial intelligence and all this stuff coming out and human intelligence is here for us and teamwork is here for us it says taking the time to prioritize this is really worth it because we will have the kind of collective genus and inclusion that the world Humanity deserves and can be we have too many problems in the world and so the only way to solve them is much more surface area of doers and makers who are passionate so this point of this program really centers on the passion that somebody in your community has and how you can make an effort there's joy for them and make it really a a celebration of capability and learning um Woody flowers who's one of our heroes who passed away he always says there's a the gift behind the gift if you get a tool the real gift is what you can learn to do with the tool um let me suggest a homework assignment for the Bhutan event which is to make a schedule for the fall for people who want to participate sounds good we would do that and we always crowdsource it amongst ourselves there's not too much to any one person and I appreciate it so Joe one thing Blair it was so interesting you were talking about how in the policy and the Mayors and the community in New Yorks there were so many women and we find in one of the technical things so many men but if we did innovation technology on policy and like you're doing we'll get much more balanced because we've restricted what the tools are for so I call it play the whole Orchestra with all the people on all the hardest problems and find the most talented Orchestra players to teach everyone else agreed great with that thank you all I'll stop the recording and I assume you're going to keep meeting at the pace you've been running yeah so we will have uh at Bhutan we'll be able to announce the actual schedule of the sessions but it will be in a sense and as Megan says an expanded version of what you saw here great thank you all
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