Fab Foundation

The Fab Charter What is a fab lab? Fab labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access to tools for digital fabrication What's in a fab lab? Fab labs share an evolving inventory of core capabilities to make (almost) anything, allowing people and projects to be shared What does the fab lab network provide?

FabLab A fab lab (fabrication laboratory) is a small-scale workshop offering (personal) digital fabrication.[1][2] A fab lab is generally equipped with an array of flexible computer controlled tools that cover several different length scales and various materials, with the aim to make "almost anything".[3] This includes technology-enabled products generally perceived as limited to mass production. While fab labs have yet to compete with mass production and its associated economies of scale in fabricating widely distributed products, they have already shown the potential to empower individuals to create smart devices for themselves. These devices can be tailored to local or personal needs in ways that are not practical or economical using mass production.

Educators – Makey Shop Trees of Knowledge Jean Piaget watched children develop very closely in the mid-20th century, and he realized that they weren't passively internalizing knowledge, like empty vessels to be filled. He proposed that people create knowledge by building mental structures, which he called schema, in a way that makes sense to them (I like to think of little imaginary "hands" building a knowledge tree).

50 Years Of Urban Growth In Lagos In One Map This is a community post, untouched by our editors. The footprints provide a window into the urbanisation of Lagos, illustrating the story of the social, economic, environmental and political factors that have reciprocally shaped the city. The footprints are gathered from various data sources. Click the image for higher definition version: Source: futurecapetown.com Until around the 1940s the city of Lagos was still very much concentrated on the island of Isale Eko and Ikoyi, By 1960, urban development had become established on the mainland spurred by the planned colonial developments in the 1930s of Apapa GRA (Government Reserve Area, up until 1960 called European Reserve Area), Ikeja GRA, the Ebute Metta street grid aligned to the railway line, and on the other side of the tracks Surulere which was built to rehouse people from a hugely unsuccessful slum clearance on Isale Eko (the cleared land remains empty up until today).

FabLab@School FabLab@School is a growing network of educational digital fabrication labs that put cutting-edge technology for design and construction -- such as 3D printers and laser cutters -- into the hands of middle and high school students. TLTL researchers have spent the last years developing low-cost tools, a curriculum, and a rigorous teacher-preparation program. The labs are the proving ground for much of the research going on in TLTL. Lagos of the future: Megacity's ambitious plans For decades, residents in Makoko have boarded wooden canoes to navigate through a labyrinth of narrow waterways crisscrossing a floating shanty town perched on stilts above Lagos Lagoon's murky canals. Lacking access to basic infrastructure, including clean drinking water, electricity and waste disposal, and prone to severe environmental and health hazards, Makoko is one of the many chaotic human settlements that have sprouted in Lagos in recent years. Its makeshift shacks shelter thousands of people fighting for space in one the world's most crowded cities. But in late July, scores of Makoko dwellers were left homeless after Lagos authorities swooped into the low-lying coastal community and demolished many of the community's houses and other illegal structures.

NIGERIA: Lagos, the mega-city of slums Makoko, a slum of houses on stilts in central Lagos, Nigeria Lagos, 5 September 2006 (IRIN) - Canoes glide through the black, stinking water as children run along an overhead maze of precarious walkways through Makoko, a growing slum on stilts in Nigeria’s sprawling commercial capital, Lagos. Many of the original residents of Makoko are fishermen attracted from across the region to hopes of a better life in Nigeria, West Africa’s oil-rich economic powerhouse. But life is tougher than they had imagined. “I moved here to fish, to set up a business,” said Martins Oke, in his 70s, who left his village on the Benin border when he was a small boy.

Les rues de Lagos : espaces disputés/espaces partagés Notes Lagos est la capitale du Nigeria depuis 1914. En 1976, le gouvernement fédéral décida de transférer la capitale à Abuja au centre du pays, qui fut officiellement inaugurée en 1991.