- Saturday 3 October
Fablabs and Makerspaces are about democratising and reclaiming the ability and right to create functional physical objects. They are about repairing, adapting and modifying technology. We want to have full ownership of, understanding of, and the ability to share knowledge about the inner workings of the technology we all use every day.
Orange Makers and Fablab RUC are organising this gathering as part of GRASP's overarching ambition to create spaces for engaging with and challenging the conditions we live under, while developing sustainable practices for both our living conditions and the environment. The aim is to bring together makers and festival participants to meet and connect. It is an opportunity for practitioners and enthusiasts from Makerspaces and Fablabs in local communities, schools, libraries and universities to hear inspiring presentations, exchange knowledge and discuss how the Maker movement can contribute to solving global challenges, while learning from each other's experiences and best practices.
The format is informal and open, allowing a wide range of makers to share their knowledge, experiences and ideas. We will mingle and host an open soapbox session, where you are invited to give a five-minute presentation about something you or a makerspace has been working on over the past year. This way, we can all be inspired and learn from one another.
Participants
Vanessa J. Carpenter
Pernille Bjørn
Hans Christian Asmussen
Sebastian Aristotelis
Lasse Antoni Carlsen
Mads Hobye
Nicolas Padfield
Programme
11.20-11.50
Vanessa J. Carpenter - Femtech, Women’s Health Innovation Advisor, Author of Designing Femtech (in English)
Who Gets Designed For? Three Lessons from Designing Femtech
For decades, health technologies have been shaped by incomplete data, default bodies and assumptions about who the user is. Drawing on 30 interviews for her upcoming book Designing Femtech, Vanessa Julia Carpenter shares three lessons from the rapidly evolving field of women’s health technology, and asks what changes when we start designing for bodies, lives and experiences that innovation has too often overlooked.
11.50-12.20
Pernille Bjørn, Professor, Human-Centred Computing, Department of Computer Science (DIKU), Distinguished ACM Member, pioneering female professor in computer science, author of Diversity in Computer Science: Design Artefacts for Equity and Inclusion
What are we building at University of Copenhagen? The vision and reality of the SCIENCE Makerspace
With a grant of DKK 42.3 million from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, SCIENCE is establishing a new Makerspace designed to strengthen innovation capacity and create entirely new settings for practice-based teaching - exploring how something special happens when you work with materials and prototypes - when complex concepts take physical form. How should we make a creative learning environment that uses learning-through-making as a strategy; a space that makes it possible to experience computer science as a discipline in new ways; an open and experimental learning environment - a place where students, educators, and researchers can meet and explore ideas together across disciplines.
12.20-12.35
Hans Christian Asmussen - DMJX Kreativ Kommunikation, Bestyrelsesmedlem Designskolen Kolding, Designnævnet og Forbundet Arkitekter Og Designere.
Teaching Creativity in the age of AI.
Prompting - but what about the creative process prior?
13.30-14.05
Sebastian Aristotelis, lead architect and co-founder of SAGA Space Architects
Sebastian Aristotelis is the lead architect and co-founder of SAGA Space Architects, which specializes in 3D printed architecture and habitation for outer space. SAGA has built projects in Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe, and Northern Greenland. For the past 1200+ days SAGA's first payload: a circadian light, has been on orbit on the International Space Station.
Sebastian was part of the two-man crew on the LUNARK expedition where he spent 100 days in isolation by the North Pole, in a Prototype Space Habitat. SAGA has won several awards and holds numerous world records for its architecture, such as the tallest 3D printed plastic structure at 7 meters tall. He was also selected as Forbes 30 under 30 and one of the top 100 young talents in Denmark.
Most recently, SAGA and 3DCP Group have finished 3D-printing Skovsporet, a student village in Holstebro, Denmark, consisting of 36 ground-level apartments. The project is among the world's largest 3D-printed housing developments and is Europe’s largest 3D-printed housing development. It uses lower-carbon concrete for the primary structures and cement-free MEVOcem for the bicycle shed, pushing the possibilities of concrete-based additive manufacturing.
14.10-14.40
Lasse Antoni Carlsen - Reframing Farming and Fabrication - Mushrooms in the city
Can human making move from extraction to transformation, deepening the biosphere and creating the conditions for more life on Earth?
For more than a decade, Lasse Antoni Carlsen has used making to challenge how we produce food and work with living systems. From urban growing, aquaponics and open biofabrication, he went on to build a commercial mushroom farm producing hundreds of kilos of food a day from just 300 square metres. Today, his work spans the Nordic mushroom industry, connecting growers, substrates, biomass, knowledge and production practices to help build the infrastructure for a different food system.
In this talk, Lasse connects that journey to the history of technology and the maker movement. The plough helped create the surplus on which cities and civilisation were built, while increasingly specialised production has also distanced us from our means of subsistence and our ability to grow, repair and fabricate for ourselves. The maker movement has begun reclaiming that agency through shared tools, open knowledge and co-creation.
Working with fungi suggests taking that idea further. Fungi can transform residual biomass into food, materials and other useful products and services, while what remains can continue into soils, habitats and further life. They are one lens into a much larger possibility: what happens when co-creation becomes multi-species, and we design as participants in the biosphere rather than outside it?
Drawing on his journey from grassroots experimentation to commercial production and industry building, Lasse asks whether our growing technological capabilities can help us produce better food and materials from less land and existing resources, strengthen self-sufficiency and food security, and release more space for nature.
Can makers move from creators to transformers, using human ingenuity to deepen rather than deplete the biosphere?
14.45-15.10
Mads Hobye - Learnings from programming with Generative Artitifical Intelligence (or Vibe coding) for rapid prototyping, reverse engineering and kreative experiments. Initial thoughs and experiences from exploring the potentials, hitting the limits as a foundation for rethinking ownership, power and our relationsship to technology develop.
15.15-15.40
Nicolas Padfield - How Not to Set Your FabLab on Fire - a decade of keeping the doors open
Every Fablab & maker space begins with a promise: come in, experiment, build something. Keeping that promise for ten years without burning out, burning down, or quietly turning into a locked cabinet of expensive machines is a different matter. How do you facilitate creativity without controlling it?
This talk is a collection of honest stories about what went well, what went wrong (there are pictures of fire trucks), what quietly went right, and the small habits, rituals, lessons, mistakes and design choices that turn a room full of tools into a community. It’s about facilitation, trust, safety, community and learning-by-making.
15.45-17.00
Maker summit - make, meet and connect. Free pizza, PechaKucha sessions, networking and socialising
Interested in FabLabs, Makerspaces, citizen making or Orange Makers? Come join us!
Whether you run a FabLab, build things in your garage, teach through making, work with citizen innovation, or are simply curious about where all this is heading — come along, grab some pizza and meet your fellow makers.
Make things. Make connections.
Language: Danish and English
The session is presented by Orange Makers, FabLab RUC and Roskilde University