in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue I had learnt a lot through organizing FAB9... Although some of my thoughts may work only in Japanese contexts

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1 in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue I had learnt a lot through organizing... Although some of my thoughts may work only in Japanese contexts (especially No.5 and No.3), I d like to share what I found through as followings... No.5 Vision Sharing Partners I decided not to use the term Sponsors, but to use the term Vision Sharing Partners. I got to know the term Vision Sharing Partners, when I was invited to TEDx conference. On that day, I was wondering about what kinds of relationship we can build between large companies and FabLabs. Two reasons behind my indecision. One - especially in Japan, we have not a culture of donation. Two - FabLab conference is neither an academic conference nor a business show. It is one-week creative summer camp. (Hironori Iwasaki, one of Fab9 committees, proposed this description. I like this). But its vague for most business people. So I was wondering how I can explain value of this event and provide incentives to large companies to collaborate. Under such circumstances, the term Vision Sharing Partners inspired me a lot!! Yes! vision first! I decided to organize monthly (in total 4 times) Vision Sharing Meeting with companies in order to share, think and confirm visions for. Although the process was new to most of us, I think it worked. Moreover, I strongly recommended participants from companies not to wear formal suits, but to wear T-Shirts (for making things!), not to exhibit consumer products but radical prototypes (in order to collect feedbacks from FabLab People!), not to prospect short-term marketing but to share (r)evolutional changes of the world. Successful maybe. I hope most of participants from companies inspired by and acquired the FabLab network. Fund raising? No explanation necessary. No.4 5-days Food Workshop One month before the conference, a committee member said Food workshops are mainly for socializing, meaning... making new friends through cooking together. We shouldn t stick to sophistication of food and tastes so much. For instance, cup noodle or instant ramen would be enough!. But Japanese committee member said like We believe good cuisine makes people more happy. We cannot give up qualities.. Food Workshops were carefully designed to balance of the two - socializing (cultural exchanges) and enjoying cuisine. Expensive sushi or wines were not provided, however, showing/sharing skills and brave trials in cooking for each participants taste by creativity and ingenuity were fruitful! I myself did not contribute much for Food Workshop preparation. Thank you for Daijiro, Chiaki and all the staffs from FabCafe. Japanese do not have culture of home party, but Social Cooking is getting popular now. I found it is a good idea to have a shared kitchen next to FabLab. FabCafe is the precedent. No.3 Hospitality 2.0 Japanese have a special culture of Hospitality (omotenashi). I myself love it and am proud of it. But I dare said at a committee meeting, Too much hospitality will make separation between guests and hosts. Why don t we give up some kinds of hospitality for some cases? Why don t we think about participants involvement and inclusion as well? Producers and Consumers are getting merged into Prosumers. Likewise, Hosts and Guests are getting merged into... let s say, Hoguest. FabLab People are active (fiercely!) participants. So I was trying as much as possible to make rooms for everyone to improvise. To be honest, it was not easy. Japanese people prefer scheduled, pre-fixed, planned programs. Yes, I am also one of Japanese, who has a tendency of a perfectionist. I think I myself value hospitality for some cases. On the other hand, I learned a lot from Jazz music - it s totally different from score-based (for example, orchestra) music. Jazz is not a music for tracing scores, but a music for creating scores, on site, in real-time, through improvizational communication with others. In my temporal conlusion, hospitality 2.0 is basically about creating imporovised harmony. Most important thing is mindset, to enjoy everything! No.2 After the Conference - Social Fabrics was a big wonderful wave. FabLab people were fantastic typhoons. But we carefully have to avoid that FabLab is going to be a hype. We are carefully against the extreme hype force. FabLab is an open-ended project, we have to try to make it sustainable. I think we shouldn t make it consumable. Usually a hype line is described as a single line (up and down) in 2-D diagram, but is it true? What if we could draw Fab-Ecosystem, consists of multiple lines (web, otherwise, social-fabric?). I love the idea of 100k FabLab, Mobile FabLabs, FabLab Nomads, any kinds of new inventions for expanding the potential possibilities of FabLab. Japan team had a FabLab Japan meeting a few days after, for discussing Projects after. Fortunately we have lots of exciting action plans - especially collaborations with FabLab in overseas- hopefully keep working with you! We all know FabLab is Fabrication Laboratory, and Fabulous Laboratory so far. But if I add the new interpretation, FabLab is the Lab for making (social) Fabric. World Wide Web is complied into WWW. Similarly, FabLab is all about Fabrication, Fabulous, and Fabric - in this case, invisible, social fabrics. Of course, our fabrics sometimes got visible - as Walter from Peru performed in Fabbercise! No.1 How to Make invisible things The last but not least. I was so happy to work with nice committee members- Youka, Shohei, Daijiro, Kazuo, Hirononi, Yasuaki, Hiroki, Makiko, Kanako, Yutaka, Ken, Yuichi... To tell the truth, we hadn t had any experience on organizing international event - to be honest, even a local conference. It s literally new to all of us. A govenment sector in Japan was so worried the lack of experience that they were reluctant to give us an official support... However, we all were good learners. Everytime we made mistakes, a new friend suddenly appeared to offer us a help, we recovered, and overcame. We helped each other for most of the time, and grew up together. As I wrote, FabLab Conference is neither academic conference nor business show. No rigid frameworks. I just wanted to slightly modify the wonderful history of FabLab Conferences (in my case, Fab5, Fab6, Fab7 and Fab8), according to the spirit of OPEN DESIGN, as Jens introduced in his fantastic movie, and as the book OPEN DESIGN NOW precisely introduced. FabLab Conference itself is a good example of Open Design. I usually make visible stuffs in FabLab. One year ago, I thought new challenges for FabLab Conference for me was how to create invisible things - event, atmosphere, happiness, experience. I was a bit afraid, because I thought I might be bad at making invisible things, instead of being a bit good at making visible things. But now, I can say, the principle is the same. The key to success is driving the iterative spiral of learning, making, sharing, and most important thing is having a fun. Enjoy everything. was super fun for me. I really enjoyed the conference (including planning). Thank you all. I am looking forward to participating in successive conferences as Hoguest (host + guest), and seeing you guys. We can make almost anything! September 22, 2013

2 PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance 2013 : The 9th International Fab Lab Conference in Yokohama Venue: Fab Lounge (Hub): Yokohama Creativecity Center (YCC) Super Fab Lab: KeioUniversity Social Fabrication Center Yokohama, in Kitanaka Brick 2F/3F Fab Forum: Yokohama Seaport Opening Memorial Hall Fab Kitchen and Fab Bar: Sakura Works, Fab Lab Kannai Fab Symposium: Kanagawa Art Theatre Organizer: Committee in Social Fabrication Lab, Keio University SFC Research Institute Co-Organizers: MIT Center for Bits and Atoms Yokohama Creativecity Center of Yokohama Arts Foundation Supported by: METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) MIC (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) City of Yokohama FabLab Japan Network International FabLab Association The Fab Foundation Vision Sharing Partners: Platinum: Roland DG Corp. Gold: Toshiba Corp. Silver: Adobe Systems Co., Ltd. Okamura Corp. GCC Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. Fujitsu/Fujitsu Design Ltd. Renesus Electronics Corp. FabCard Preliminary pdf version distributed Plan and Text: Hiroya Tanaka Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham Design: Kensaku Kato,LABORATORIES Copyright Committee, 2013

3 Hospitality 2.0 ゲストとホストの垣根をつくらないおもてなしができるだろうか? #fab9 Too much hospitality will make separation between guests and hosts. Why don't we give up some kinds of hospitality for some cases? #fab9

4 Low and High Tech 古いものから新しい発想を導くにはどうすればよいだろうか? #fab9 How we create new idea based on the traditional? #fab9

5 Creative Mess 作業の痕跡が残った空間が次の作業を喚起していくのではないだろうか? #fab9 The history of activities in the space, if perceived, may motivate you a next project. #fab9

6 What is Fab Lab? ファブラボは教室だろうか? 図書館だろうか? 工作室だろうか? #fab9 Is FabLab classroom? library or workshop? #fab9

7 Machine with Green 機械と植物が隣り合うとどんな場所が生まれるだろうか? #fab9 What is the atmosphere created by plants beside machines. #fab9

8 Fab-X イベントの後そこに残る ( 見えない ) ものはなんだろう? #fab9 After the event, what you will find invisible things created there? #fab9

9 Fab Workshop 肩書や地位を忘れてひとりの個人に戻るためにはどんな仕掛けがよいだろうか? #fab9 What is the device for people to retrieve pure personality stripped off their job title in the society. #fab9

10 Lab Reviews プレゼンス ( 存在感 ) 溢れるプレゼンテーション ( 発表 ) はどんな風に可能だろうか? #fab9 How is possible presentation justifying speaker s life and existence? #fab9

11 Open (Re)Source Workshop ものづくりだけでなくものを読むことから始められないだろうか? #fab9 Why don't we start "reading things" before hands-on? #fab9

12 Food Workshop 食べるだけでなく調理から共に楽しんだほうが深い食の体験にならないだろうか? #fab9 Cooking together will be more enjoyable experience than just eating. #fab9

13 Fabbercize! 各国の体操やストレッチを実演することで頭も体も柔らかくほぐしてみたらどうだろう? #fab9 Exercising or stretching by foreign manner would be a good relaxation of your mind and thinking also. #fab9

14 Midnight Super FabLab 本当に濃密な創造や議論は深夜にこそ起こるのではないだろうか? #fab9 Creative work or deep discussion may be happened in the midnight. #fab9

15 Fab Bar and Fab Kitchen ファブラボの創造的な雰囲気を支えるのはおいしい料理と愉しい音楽なのです Alex Schaub #fab9 Great food and music are the key factors for FabLab people to be creative - Alex Schaub #fab9

16 Fab Icon Culture and Technology 文化と技術はいかに融合するだろうか? #fab9 How culture will be integrated in technology? #fab9

17 Fabbing 考えながらつくりつくりながら考えることをどこまで繰り返せるだろうか? #fab9 You think and make, then make and think. How many times you can repeat this to the finish? #fab9

18 Super FabLab 道具も家具も空間も使いながらつくり続けられないだろうか? # f a b 9 You refine your tools while using. Is it the same for furniture or space? #fab9

19 Fab City まち全体を楽しむ仕掛けをつくれないだろうか? #fab9 How we can provide devices to enjoy the city as a whole? #fab9

20 Fab Shirts T シャツエプロン作業服どんな服がどんな場に合う? # f a b 9 T-shirt, apron, working uniform... You have many choices in FabLab fashion. #fab9

21 Fab Foo その場に居合わせたすべての人が能動的な参加者となるためには? #fab9 How do you make every people there to be a active participants? #fab9

22 Fab Tables ものづくりの会話が弾むのに相応しい机とはどのようなものだろうか? #fab9 What is design of the table to invite people to be exiting in discussion for making? #fab9

23 Fab Gifts 団扇地図 USBメモリ嬉しくサプライズのあるもらって嬉しいギフトはどんなものだろうか? #fab9 What are memorable gifts with a bit of surprise? A round fun, map or USB memory? #fab9

24 Fab Style まなぶつくるわかちあう 3 つのサイクルをどこまで繰り返せるだろうか? # f a b 9 Learning. making and sharing. How far you can go with this repetitive 3 processes? #fab9

25 Fab Music BGMが流れる代わりにいつでも自由に弾くことのできる楽器が置かれていたらどうだろう? #fab9 Instead of BGM, music instruments may be prepared in FabLab. Some people will play and enjoy them while making. #fab9

26 Fab Tools ものをつくりはじめる前につくるための道具さえも自分たちでつくってしまうとしたら? #fab9 Before making things, you might start making tools for the making. #fab9

27 Glocal Communication ことばを越えものづくりで気持ちを伝え合うためには? #fab9 How do you communicate by making thing without words? #fab9

28 Up cycle 廃棄物を創造的にアップサイクルするには? #fab9 Up-cycle - creation from the abandoned. #fab9

29 DIWO (Do It With Others) 異なる他者と共創するためには? #fab9 Hoe we co-create with people from foreign culture. #fab9

30 GitFAB リアルな出来事をウェブ上に蓄積していくためには? #fab9 How to report and updates the real events on the thew Web? #fab9

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32 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY1, August 21 (WED) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 3F) 14:00-15:30 Workshop 1,2,3,4 - Parallel Sessions Projects: Green Fab ( Super Fab Lab 3F) (mcu: Workshops#9) Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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34 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY1, August 21 (WED) Place: Fab Lounge (Yokohama Creative Center) 14:00-15:30 Workshop 1,2,3,4 - Parallel Sessions Tools: Fab Modules (Fab Lounge 3F-A) (mcu: Classes #4) Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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36 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY3, August 23 (FRI) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 3F) 16:00-17:30 Workshop 5,6,7,8,9- Fab Foo Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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40 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY3, August 23 (FRI) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 3F) Happy Lab Hours (Super Fab Lab is open all night) Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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42 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY4, August 24 (SAT) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 3F) Happy Lab Hours (Super Fab Lab is open all night) Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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48 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY2, August 22 (FRI) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 2F) 16:00-17:30 Workshop 5,6,7,8,9 - Fab Foo Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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50 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY1, August 21 (WED) Place: Super Fab Lab (Kitanaka Brick 2F) 14:00-15:30 Workshop 1,2,3,4 - Parallel Sessions Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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52 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY4, August 24 (SAT) Place: Fab Lounge (Yokohama Creative Center) 14:00-16:00 Fab Camp: open time for participants Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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58 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY7, August 27 (TUE) Place: Fab Forum (Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall) Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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60 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY5, August 25 (SUN) Place: Fab Kitchen (Fab Kannai) 18:00-22:00 "FAB, FOOD, FUN"- Cooking Workshop Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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62 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY4, August 24 (SAT) Place: Fab Kitchen (Fab Kannai) 18:00-22:00 "FAB, FOOD, FUN"- Cooking Workshop Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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66 POSTCARD PERSONAL FABRICATION as the dawn of New Renaissance THE 9th INTERNATIONAL FAB LAB CONFERENCE in Yokohama Wed - 27 Tue DAY7, August 27 (TUE) Place: Fab Forum (Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall) 16:00-18:00 Fab Lab World Cup Contest 2013 Open (RE)Source Instrument Libe Performance Photograph: Gosuke Sugiyama, Gottingham

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