Conference: 16th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2015 - "The next city". São Paulo, Brazil, July 8-10, 2015, At São Paulo, Brazil., Volume: Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures. The Next City - New Technologies and the Future of the Built Environment ( Communications in Computer and Information Science, Volume 527 - 2015) / The present paper is a mapping study of digital fabrication laboratories
in Latin America. It presents and discusses results from a survey with 31
universities’ fab labs, studios and independent initiatives in Latin America. The
objective of this study is fourfold: firstly, to draw the cultural, social and economic
context of implementation of digital fabrication laboratories in the region;
secondly, to synthesize relevant data from correlations between organizational
structures, facilities and technologies, activities, types of prototypes, uses and
areas of application; thirdly, to draw a network of people and institutions,
recovering connections and the genealogy of these fab labs; and fourthly, to
present some fab labs that are intertwined with local questions. The results
obtained indicate a complex “homo faber” network of initiatives that embraces
academic investigations, architectural developments, industry applications,
artistic propositions and actions in social processes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/614909 |
| Date | 08 July 2015 |
| Creators | Sperling, David M., Herrera Polo, Pablo C., Scheeren, Rodrigo |
| Publisher | Springer International Publishing |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | https://www.researchgate.net/publication/279750155_Migratory_Movements_of_Homo_Faber_Mapping_Fab_Labs_in_Latin_America |
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