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 alsways been a maker.. and idea that you can make almost anything.. 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..
parallel to me for.. if we set the parameters of legit free people.. the people will ‘design’ whatever ness..
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
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
notes/quotes from 4 min video (2 of 3) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbCaITLEjk]:
notes/quotes from 18 min video (3 of 3) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR4kjUsLgiw]:
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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.
on fablab network via their sit [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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