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Fab Lab Belfast and Fab Lab Nerve Centre are delighted to announce Fabricating the Future: FabLabs and Digital Social Innovation as a free one day event to showcase and explore the work of FabLabs internationally in the use of Digital Fabrication as a Creative tool for Peacebuilding, Education and Social Innovation in local communities.

Hosted in Derry~Londonderry's historic Guildhall the event will bring look at how the FabLab model, as developed by the MIT Centre for Bits and Atoms and now delivered through a network of over 400 labs across the world, has been delivering an innovative programme of Peacebuilding, curriculum mapped STEM > STEAM learning and wider Social Innovation through Public Health, Skills and Entrepreneurship programmes in local communities in Detroit, Iceland and Northern Ireland.

International best practice around the use of FabLabs for Creativity based Digital Social Innovation will be examined alongside these local models, and a range of case studies will be showcased to show FabLab’s in practical action in our communities.

The emerging global field of Digital Social Innovation will also be examined and explained with input from NESTA, alongside case studies from successful local businesses that are operating in the Digital Fabrication space. 

This will be followed by the opportunity to engage in a range of hands on taster sessions and workshops around the Creative and Social use of FabLab’s. Attendees will have the opportunity to actively discover and explore the use of Digital Fabrication including 3d Printers, Milling Machines, Laser and Vinyl Cutters to deliver Social outcomes.

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