Global Initiatives
We support the development of local and international projects and initiatives around digital fabrication, education, and open source technologies. From sustainable wireless internet infrastructure to fabbing solar houses to tracking global environmental data to creating opportunities for self-expression, the Fab Lab network is building a growing list of projects that benefit community in many different ways.
COVID-19 Response: We champion the Resilience that Makers bring to their Communities Around the World.
The global pandemic has affected Fab Lab communities in every way imaginable, but through it all, there has been incredible support for one another and for local community need. Millions of PPE products have been made and distributed through the Fab Lab Network, thousands of designs have been modified and shared, and new partnerships have formed as we all try and help each other to stay healthy. While 2020 was a year of a year of uncertainty and extreme hardship, we are cautiously optimistic that 2021 will find most of the community in a better place.
Below you will find a few resources on the COVID-19 response from the Fab Lab Network as well as the larger Maker community. An updated Fab Lab Manufacturing COVID-19 Survey Response Summary is coming soon!
FABx Events
Each year we offer members of the more than 1,750 worldwide Fab Labs a space to gather, to share, to collaborate, to explore and, of course, to fabricate. Join us this year in Montréal, Canada!
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Fab Research
The Fab Lab project is the educational outreach program for MIT’s Center for Bits & Atoms. As such the network is closely linked to MIT’s research into the merging of physical science and computer science and the development of digital materials. The international Fab Lab network also contributes to new research and applications in digital fabrication.
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Fab City Global Initiative
Fab City is a global initiative to develop locally productive and globally connected self-sufficient cities. It comprises an international think tank of civic leaders, makers, urbanists and innovators working on changing the paradigm of the current industrial economy where the city operates on a linear model of importing products and producing waste.
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