Place labs brainstorming report
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A Place Lab aims to: 1) Address social needs in geographical areas impacted by declines in the textile industry by providing employment opportunities, community building, and skills training. 2) Establish facilities with common workspace, tools, tutorials, samples, and knowledge repositories to experiment and collaborate. 3) Partner with local stakeholders like cooperatives, tailors, students, and institutions to offer services like innovation support, workshops, and an online marketplace for locally produced goods.
Place labs brainstorming report
- 2. Main activities: what does a Place Lab do? Addressing social needs serving from textile industry in certain geographical area Employment, social status Give motivation to social exclusion Community building Map out the needs, what the place lab will offer Make sense, hold ups for problem solving on local area Education/skills Focus on what people can bring Craftsmanship Differentiation Synergy/Summer school Test tinkering Produce selling myths Fashion/textile education Competitions
- 3. Facilities Common space to experiment Social space/ community Sewing tools Tutorials/documentation Sample of textiles and accessories Knowledge, libraries Literature/web/study Repository
- 4. Setting In geographical areas that have been hit hard by textile manufacturing crisis In geographical areas of high creativeness/ skills/knowledge Search where knowledge about T&C is Census, door to door survey Team up with other fablabs (hackspaces) Depend on local situation Design, manufacture, marketing Train, exchange & experience Transnational cooperation, common products Eco-impact, sense of material, sustainability Access to fablab network
- 5. Service concepts & tangible results Start comprehensive socio-manufacturing service Innovation service Place to come together and have fun Find cross-cutting topics with other sectors Co-designing of local reality, collaborative & based on collective intelligence Can be on-line? Yes (ex Etsy) Tutorial workshops (zig-zag) Tangible results: community together
- 6. Audience Local stakeholders Cooperatives Tailors, unemployed, young unemployed, students, home workers Running institutions Diversification of labour as strength. Place labs take up social diversification and strengthen their special opportunities
- 7. Supervision Shared ownership Employees volunteers Supervision depends on the level of support Give more, ask more Give nothing, ask nothing
- 8. Sustainability & enviroment Innovative network, the capital Start with something that already exsists Fab-school model After school? So parents can go to work? From low tech to high teach teaching Jobs Summer schools On-line shopping platform Market + social national support Reuse material for new products
- 9. Fairness Test models of fair production and fair trade Manucrafting Danger of the Social stigma Shared ownership?
- 10. Openness Walk in / walk out