The Nextfab and the Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer are planning a conference about Personal fabrication in Brazil in 2010, for that, they organized a survey to gather some information about people interested in attending/presenting at the conference. I suggest everyone interested in the subjects of Open Design, Fabing, Open Hardware and Manufacturing to contribute to the survey helping to bring an event like this to life.
Following Local Motors tweet, commenting next month’s Wired magazine cover story, the New Industrial Revolution Issue:
On the cover, Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson puts: “The factory, the investors, the workers – obsolete. In the age of DIY manufacturing, all you need is a garage and a great idea.”
Even dough I also (and sometimes naively) think so, I have heard the opposite many times.
All I know is that this new industrial revolution has in deed already started. New forms of value creation have already been proven to spark new kind of enterprises and products, just look at Linux, Arduino and Threadless. And Letsevo is on this wave, trying to figure out how product design innovation will thrive in this new wiki-reality.
Among the open questions are:
Is the world going to get any better with DIY manufacturing and garage entrepreneurs building up their ideas?
And what are the skills needed to put these ideas in practice?
How are Universities going to adapt to this new industrial scenario?
who is joining in with us?
I would love to get some thoughts on this and can not wait to grab this issue.
Personally, you mark the end of a 6 year incubation period in Germany and in Holland, where I lived amazing encounters that helped shape a great part of my design education and defined the beginning of my professional career. For Letsevo, you mark the beginning of new perspectives back where it’s first ideas were planted.
Because of this special moment, I want to dedicate this first Letsevo post of 2010, to all encounters of our lives which help us see the world differently, and I can tell, I had countless of them in these 6 years I spent in Europe. I am deeply thankful for that.
Let us have the creative energy to make every 2010 encounter “unforgetably” enriching. Happy 2010!
