Sinds 2011 heeft Hogeschool Rotterdam een ‘eigen’ fablab, gespecialiseerd in sensortechnologie, (open) data en digitaal prototypen. Het lab fungeert in de eerste plaats als infrastructuur voor diverse onderwijsvormen en als makerspace voor studenten uit een breed scala aan opleidingen. Het lab fungeert …

Een van de grote uitdagingen voor het winkelbedrijf is de overstap naar omnichannel retail. In Lab Fygital pakt Kenniscentrum Creating 010 samen met mkb-retailers deze uitdaging op. Samen met retailers verkennen onderzoekers en studenten de toekomst waarin de integratie van fysieke winkel met online …

Hoe kunnen (basis)scholen en bibliotheken het bezoek van schoolklassen aan een makerplaats zo voorbereiden en vormgeven dat het een (blijvende, structurele) bijdrage levert aan de ontwikkeling van 21ste eeuwse vaardigheden van leerlingen?

Since 2011, Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) operates a FabLab specialized in sensing, data processing and digital fabrication. The lab acted primarily as an educational infrastructure for electives and course modules within minors, and it was a making infrastructure for …

FabLearn Netherlands invited submissions to the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands that was held September 28, 2018, preceding Maker Faire Eindhoven September 29 and 30. This publication contains the accepted papers that were presented at the conference.

We are proud to organize the first FabLearn conference in the Netherlands where many maker education initiatives are shared in masterclasses and on a fair. As early as 2007, the first maker initiatives started in the Netherlands and making keeps gaining momentum in education. As new parties are embracing …

Trends and driving forces around us are moving fast in multiple directions. Technical developments in the fields of circular economy, internet of things, bio-based products, robotics, energy and materials are influencing and reshaping our transactional and contextual environment. To create integrated …

Starting with a quick and dirty trial at Fab8 in Wellington, New Zeeland, the Fab Lab community has produced a considerable body of research over the past seven years. Together with colleagues Betty Barrett, Tomas Diez and Cindy Kohtala I’ve been carefully developing this endeavour to collect and present …

The business models of digital maker-entrepreneurs in open design are inextricably linked to the broader open design community. Digital makers share designs on online platforms such as Thingiverse and use digital manufacturing technology such as 3-D printing as a generative mechanism for their entrepreneurialactivities. …

This text is the revised and extended conclusion of my inaugural lecture at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences (Troxler, 2015), of which the full text is available at https:// www.hogeschoolrotterdam.nl/onderzoek/projectenen- publicaties/creating-010/revolutie-in-demaakindustrie/beyond-consenting-nerds …