Fab23 was the 2023 (and 18th) edition of the Fab Lab International Conference and Fab City Summit. The central theme was Designing Resilient Futures. Submissions are closed now.

However, the Fab 24 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.

The call for papers for Fab24, Mexico, will be published soon, and submssions for Fab24 are already open at https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fab24

Submission Guidelines

We use a two-step submission procedure.

1. In the first step, submit an abstract of the paper you are planning to submit. We will decide, based on your abstract, if we invite you to submit a full paper.
2. In the second step, you will submit a full paper ready for presentation and publication. Presence at the conference is required for your paper to be published.

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

Abstract of up to 800 words (see mandatory structure below).

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

Please note: abstracts that describe planned work have little chance to get accepted.

List of Topics

• Entrepreneurship and Open, Diverse Cultures – including commons-based peer-production, social entrepreneurship, alternative and non capitalist enterprise
• Ecological Transition and Sustainability Transformation – including local economies, climate change adaptation, urban resilience, just transitions
• Inclusive Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation – including eco-innovation, grassroots innovation, anti-colonial science, decentralized Internet, AI for good
• Inclusive Education and Life Long Learning – including project-based learning, postcolonial education, postcapitalist learning spaces, critical pedagogy
• Life Science and other New Frontiers – including biohacking for good, material innovation, citizen science, sociomateriality, design for ethics
• Woman Makers – for any specifically woman makers related contributions not covered under one of the above topics

Mandatory Structure of Abstracts

1. Purpose of the paper – What are the reason(s) for writing the paper or the aims of the research?
2. Design/methodology/approach – How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the research. What is the approach to the topic and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper?
3. Data/sample – What data has been collected (if any) and how?
4. Findings – What was found in the course of the work? This will refer to analysis, discussion, or results.
5. Research limitations/implications – If research is reported on in the paper this section must be completed and should include suggestions for future research and any identified limitations in the research process.
6. Practical implications – What outcomes and implications for practice, applications and consequences are identified? Not all papers will have practical implications but most will. What changes to practice should be made as a result of this research/paper?
7. Original value of paper – What is new in the paper? State the value of the paper and to whom.

Timeline

• Deadline for submission of abstracts mid May with a turnaround of reviews in the first week of June.
• Fast Track abstracts deadline: 21 April (reviews guaranteed before 30 April).
• Deadline for the submission of full papers mid July.

Committees

Program Committee

• Cindy Kohtala, chair
• Peter Troxler, chair
• others tba.

Organizing committee

• tba.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fab23 <at> easychair <dot> org.