IGF 2018 WS #248
FabLabs and the Maker Movement: Structuring Chaos?

Organizer 1: Nicolas Loubet, La MYNE
Organizer 2: Sylvia Fredriksson, sylviafredriksson.net
Organizer 3: Guerry Guerry, DINSIC

Speaker 1: Nicolas Loubet, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 2: Sylvia Fredriksson, Civil Society, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)
Speaker 3: Guerry Guerry, Government, Western European and Others Group (WEOG)

Moderator
Online Moderator
Rapporteur
Format

Birds of a Feather - 90 Min

Interventions

The session will be an open discussion between Nicolas Loubet, Sylvia Fredriksson and Bastien Guerry with contributions by Lionel Maurel, Laura Aufrère, Vladimir Ritz, Yoann Duriaux, Antoine Burret, Rieul Techer.

Diversity

We kept the number of speakers limited to let speakers from other background step in, if possible.

The session will present a state of the worldwide Maker movement, insisting on the tensions that arise from incompatible visions. From there, it will explore possible futures for the Maker movement, assessing the role that Internet Governance can play in them. Case studies : MoveCommons, Tilios (collective certification mark).

The onsite moderator will first introduce the general topic, then say a few words on each participant. She will then explain that the session is also live online and that participants to the onsite session can raise questions at any time, if this is okay with the speakers. She will then start the discussion among speakers and keep a balanced timing amont them and interactions with the onsite and online audience.

FabLabs and Makerspaces are "interspaces" with a strong emphasis on doing, sharing, and learning by doing and sharing. As such, they are part of a vision where the Internet is used to decentralize empowerment. But they are also institutions, and they need to protect their vision, their culture, their values. How do you keep these forces together while staying authentic? How to build and protect peer production infrastructures without ignoring diversity ? How to build networks based on equality and reciprocal dignity principles ?

Online Participation

We will share a framapad.org link, an IRC channel and a Twitter/Mastodon hashtag. The online moderator will monitor these channel and report questions and reactions live. The framapad notes will then be used as a draft for a collaborative report of the session.