CFP

Fab14: Fab 14 research papers

Paris, France, July 13-15, 2018

Conference website	http://www.fab14.org/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fab14
Abstract registration deadline	April 29, 2018
Notifications to authors	May 13, 2018
Submission deadline	June 3, 2018

Topics: fab lab resilience

Fab14 is the 14th international gathering of the global Fab Lab communithy. The central theme of Fab14 is "Fabricating Resilience". The Fab 14 research papers stream invites original academic writing from researchers studying the Fab Lab movement, its ambitions and its impact from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, engineering, science and technology studies, business and management, education, urban studies, media and design, and many more.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29 APRIL 2018

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

The procedure is as follows: an abstract of up to 500 words needs to be submitted by the deadline specified above. Selected abstracts will be invited to submit a full paper of of approx. 3500-4000 words using the template file provided on acceptance.

The following paper categories are welcome:

List of Topics

The topics below cover all areas of resilience, circular economy, technology innovation, education and entrepreneurship. The categories given are supposed to stimulate out-of-the-box thinking and to signal that we welcome alternative approaches to mainstream technological and social science research.

Resilience
including degrowth, local economies, climate change adaptation, urban resilience
Circular Economy
including biomaterial loops and cascades, urban mining, reuse and recycling
Technology and Innovation
including eco-innovation, user innovation, grassroots innovation, anti-colonial science, decentralized Internet
Education and Life Long Learning
including postcolonial education, postcapitalist learning spaces, critical pedagogy
Entrepreneurship
including social entrepreneurship, alternative and non capitalist enterprise
New Frontiers
including biohacking for good, material innovation, citizen science, sociomateriality

Types of Papers

empirical qualitative and/or quantitative study
technical experiment
conceptual, position paper

Committees

Program Committee

Chairs

Cindy Kohtala, co-chair
Peter Troxler, co-chair

Reviewers

Karsten Nebe
Iván Sánchez Milara
Antonio Cesare Iadarola
Evelyne Lhoste
Massimo Menichinelli

Junior reviewers

Brício Mares Salles
Matthias Friessnig

Publication

Fab14 proceedings will be published in by the International Fab Lab Association, possibly via archive.org. Authors will retain copyright of their articles, however they will be required to publish under a CC-BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). We plan to provide both DOI and ISSN.

Venue

Toulouse, France.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fab14 <at> easychair <dot> org