voc – silvia brandi – international fablab network
Silvia Brandi -International FabLab Network
valley of the commons – 9.4.26 – silvia brandi – international fablab network
need fablab et al.. beyond.. to gershenfeld something else law
more on silvia bottom of page
notes/quotes from 37 min video (1st of 3 videos) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGMZibzqVb0]:
2 min – felix: going between 10 like going to dad if mom says no.. answer doesn’t change.. we talk to each other.. please don’t play that game with us.. please behave talk .. ie’s: changing rooms, discounts (ask for them before you come).. just want to make you aware it doesn’t help.. i like to rant
5 min – felix: intro of silvia’s farmlab s 2 hrs from here.. i know lorenzo would like to go
6 min – silvia – am founder of austria fablab.. i will just talk about farmlab.. established in 2025 .. but ideas built 20 yrs before .. converged in small farm.. actually where i grew up.. got interested in organic/sustainable/regen farming.. worked as architect.. martin also studied architecture in industrial maintanence.. fab lab barcelona is oldest in europs.. wow moment for us.. martin always been a maker.. and idea that you can make almost anything.. t.. this is actually lorenzo (in pic)
yeah.. that.. to the anything ness.. take out the almost.. and talk about do/be anything.. via gershenfeld something else law et al.. in the city.. as the day ness.. ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
10 min – martin was part of that in barcelona.. building car was mind blowing.. then house.. anything ness.. don’t design a building but set the parameters that design it.. t
parallel: if we set the parameters of legit free people.. then people will ‘design’ whatever ness.. everyday anew.. the dance
via ‘homestead’ ness bachelard oikos law style
ie: the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
12 min – martin took the fablab course from mit on how to make almost anything.. i worked as academic manager then gen manager
13 min – silivia: image of silvia speaking at conference – her title: fixing the future.. i started w project of atlas of future.. platform mapping most mind blowing projects throughout world.. what inspired was us was noam chomsky: ‘optimism is tool for better future’.. so optimism as a tool.. was behind the atlas project.. so been gathering projects from around world and presenting them in barcelona
chomsky optimism law et al
14 min – silvia: after some 20 yrs – why not start applying these ideas in real life – so 2025 farmlab.at.. after academia and mapping we wanted to give it a try at martin’s farm in austria.. very specific rural place w existing knowledge and all we accumulated over 20 yrs
15 min – silvia: farmlab is a creative living lab in rural styria, austria, working at the intersection of traditional craft and digital fab and nature and sustainable agri.. intersection is quite important.. trying to provoke these kind of connections/intersections
imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
16 min – mission: revitalize rural, connect inherited/temp techs/resources, explore circular/regen ways.. idea in a city have diversity but hard to find in rural.. so trying to provoke it..
17 min – have digi fab, ceramic, et al
city sketchup ness et al
18 min – farmlab is a fab lab.. semi sufficient.. rural creative hub.. and living test bed
19 min – why doing this – finding out what capacity is needed for others to do this in sustainable way
findings from on the ground ness deep dive on why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
(section on diff hub networks
23 min – fablab network which is biggest .. more than 3000 members in the world.. instigated by mit 20 yrs ago
26 min – what interests us most.. is scaling ness
to scale to regen/sustain/make-whatever nes w/o taking a lot of work.. (warning ness) .. we need to org around something that every heart already craves
we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. in an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8b legit free
ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8b today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8b today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8b legit free
27 min – on building agency.. gaining back capability to act.. looking for something that can be proper situated in a rural context
28 min – would like to walk you thru 1 yr of farmlab
34 min – michel waving goodbye.. silvia: you came to the fablab.. so you’re checked
notes/quotes from 4 min video (2 of 3) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbCaITLEjk]:
silvia still going over 1 yr in farmlab
notes/quotes from 18 min video (3 of 3) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4kjUsLgiw]:
silvia: (q&a – on digital resources available to others) – no.. but we could .. that’s interesting.. because need diff than fablab city to farmlab.. et al.. we have philosophy of documenting everything for others.. that exists.. but doesn’t exist for farm.. so good suggestion
4 min – silvia: we’re not into business part to enable reproduction but in enabling others to pick it up
8 min – silvia: the quick question that doesn’t have an answer (how to buy/get survival needs).. all diff fablabs do diff things that work for them.. we’re trying to put together those diff ways you could use.. also homesteading.. if reduce needs.. reduce need for money et al
9 min – silvia: (q: interested in knowledge commoning ness – work with michel on p2p.. and wiki in england growing the commons in – i’m happy to help) that’s great.. because that’s not my focus.. i’m into making things happen
why we need tech w/o judgment – to do all that documenting stuff for us.. free us all up to do/be/whatever
ie: nonjudgmental expo labeling.. this is also huge to the ‘you can make whatever ness’ – gershenfeld something else law et al
11 min – silvia: (on people seeing hope when they visit) yeah..
total resonation.. but also .. costello screen\service law et al.. because not as fun (not the dance) until it’s everyone
12 min – silvia: till kind of absorbing the after covid wave.. more people trying things
13 min – lorenzo (now there.. and silvia showed his pic again and he explained it): what are your references for rural hubs
14 min – silvia: we don’t have something similar that did this.. but sister projects developing at same time.. gave those ie’s
16 min – silvia: one ie: on fabship.. we don’t have something we’re trying to replicate.. we’re tyring to discover the model ourselves..
again.. the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness.. if we try that.. legit try that.. there will never be a pattern to replicate (graeber unpredictability/surprise law; graeber can’t know law; et al).. and business models et al.. would all become irrelevant s
much like if the world started to ‘homestead’ via bachelard oikos law
17 min – silvia: when we find the business model.. we will let you know
to me.. not gonna happen w/o compromise..
to me only business model can be to try/code money (any form of measuring/accounting/people telling other people what to do) as the planned obsolescence.. where legit needs are met w/o money.. till people forget about measuring..ie: sabbatical ish transition
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via farmlab site [https://www.farmlab.at/team]:
Silvia Brandi is a cultural manager with a background in architecture and over 15 years of experience in sustainability-focused cultural and educational projects. She has directed international initiatives such as the Fixing the Future Festival in Barcelona, managed educational programs at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, and led the training department of Abacus cooperative. At FarmLab, Silvia coordinates residencies, workshops, and European collaborations, ensuring a strong connection between local resources, cultural innovation, and sustainable practices. Her work emphasizes building partnerships, developing funding opportunities, and designing impactful learning experiences.
farmlab.at@gmail.com
Martin Gutmann is an architect and digital fabrication expert with a strong focus on large-scale additive manufacturing. He co-founded FarmLab in Kapfenstein after several years in Barcelona, where he managed Fab Lab Tinkerers and was site manager at Valldaura Labs, the Green Fab Lab of IAAC. He is a certified Fab Academy graduate and holds an MSc in Engineering Management. Beyond FarmLab, Martin works as project manager and 3D concrete printing specialist at BauMit, while continuing to develop EU-funded projects and teaching activities. His expertise bridges rural craftsmanship, experimental prototyping, and advanced digital technologies.
need to try the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen/exerpimented/prototyped: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
via the tech we’ve not yet ‘advanced’: nonjudgmental exponential labeling to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
on fablab network via their site [https://www.fablabs.io/about]:
Fablabs.io is the online social network of the international Fab Lab community. It started as a spin-off project in Fab Lab Barcelona by Tomas Diez and John Rees, and is the current official list of Fab Labs that share same principles, tools, and philosophy around the future of technology and its role in society. Fablabs.io is an exchange platform for people, labs, projects, machines, events and groups that operate around the Fab Lab Network, which collaboration and communication tools in order to align interests and to expand the global scale of this community.
tomas diez.. massimo banzi.. et al.. neil gershenfeld.. et al
The Fab Lab Network is an open, creative community of fabricators, artists, scientists, engineers, educators, students, amateurs, professionals, ages 5 to 75+, located in more than 40 countries in approximately 1000 Fab Labs. Fablabs.io is the official platform for the Fab Lab Network, where Fab Labs are mapped, knowledge is shared, projects are developed and where the community discuss these topics.
FabLabs.io has been developed since 2014 by the Fab City Research Lab (aka Fab Lab Barcelona) team at IAAC and in collaboration with the Fab Foundation.
silvia not listed here so maybe another link?
again.. need fablab et al.. beyond.. to gershenfeld something else law..
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
from findings from on the ground ness deep dive on why we need tech w/o judgment
ie: the dance won’t dance unless/until it’s 1\ all of us 2\ legit free
nothing to date (ever since that day) has gotten to that root of problem
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
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