Fab15: Fab15 research papers Cairo, Egypt, July 29-August 2, 2019 |
Conference website | https://fab15.fabevent.org/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fab15 |
Abstract registration deadline | June 17, 2019 |
Submission deadline | July 15, 2019 |
Fab15 is the 15th international gathering of the global Fab Lab communithy. The central theme of Fab15 is "Collectively Independent".
>>>>> DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 17, 2019 !!! <<<<<
The Fab 15 research papers stream invites original scholarly 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 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:
- empirical qualitative and/or quantitative study
- technical experiment
- conceptual, position paper
List of Topics
- Interdependence and Entrepreneurship
including peer-production, social entrepreneurship, alternative and non capitalist enterprise
Corresponding to the conference themes of "Networks and Communities" and "Entrepreneurship for Growth" - Resilience and Circular Economy
including degrowth, local economies, climate change adaptation, urban resilience
Corresponding to the conference theme of "Fab City" - Technology and Innovation
including eco-innovation, user innovation, grassroots innovation, anti-colonial science, decentralized Internet
Corresponding to the conference theme of "Design for Change" and "Towards 4.0" - Education and Life Long Learning
including postcolonial education, postcapitalist learning spaces, critical pedagogy
Corresponding to the conference theme of "Make to Learn" - New Frontiers
including biohacking for good, material innovation, citizen science, sociomateriality, design for ethics
Committees
Program Committee
- Cindy Kohtala, chair
- Peter Troxler, chair
- others tba.
Organizing committee
- Peter Troxler, chair
- Dina El-Zanfaly, Fab15 liaison
- others tba.
Publication
Fab15 proceedings will be published in by the International Fab Lab Association via zenodo.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 provide a DOI.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to fab15 <at> easychair <dot> org