The territory of digital fabrication

  • José María Sánchez-Laulhé Sánchez de Cos CommonFab Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza
  • Belén Barrigón Ferrero CommonFab Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza
  • Juan José Olmo Bordallo CommonFab Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza
Keywords: digital fabrication, device, body, machine, common based enterprise, entrepreneurship, selfproduction

Abstract

Digital fabrication, as knowledge and production sphere, is claimed in many recent writings like a emancipator territory in front the great monopolistic and multinationals manufacturing systems. From some digital fabrication sectors, still minority, argue that these techniques can transcend the relation between the person and the object, the disciplinary segmentation ―at least the related to industrial design―, or that they will build infrastructures with informational codes about the physical objects around new communities.
In this text, are going to be contrasted these potentialities with the more earthly conflicts and limitations that entrepreneurship implies in subjects linked with this area at the current context. For that, we are going to expose our project Ehcofab, an autonomous digital fabrication laboratory located in one of the more traditional artisan areas of Seville historic city centre. This written also allows us to strip the soul of our project to turn it into an open dialogue where our debates are still unfinished. We are aware our course will mark a way which is quite unknown for us, and in which new disputes will appear. The starting point is the April 2013, so our perspective about some misfortunes and disruptions reflected here, have taken shape or have been disfigured during the translation.

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José María Sánchez-Laulhé Sánchez de Cos, CommonFab Sociedad Cooperativa Andaluza
Socio fundador de ehcofab y de la cooperativa CommonFab. Con anterioridad, experiencia en la producción y coordinación de eventos culturales, gestión de colectivos, y en la documentación y contextualización teórica de las actividades del equipo. En el Fab Lab Sevilla ha combinado estos trabajos con una mayor implicación con las máquinas y los diseños realizados, asumiendo parte del trabajo relacional del equipo con otros colectivos cercanos y el desarrollo de proyectos propios de diseño, relacionados con productos, eventos, etc.

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2014-03-31
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Sánchez-Laulhé Sánchez de Cos J. M., Barrigón Ferrero B. y Olmo Bordallo J. J. (2014). The territory of digital fabrication. Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, 11(1), 15-38. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48259

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