MakerCircus is a traveling laboratory that aims at spreading ideals of innovation and open design, reaching those contexts which are geographically and culturally “far” from the main urban centers. The lab will be equipped with tools for the digital fabrication and will promote workshops and activities where co-design can be experimented thanks to technologies as 3D printing, laser cutters and smart objects, allowing to discover the pleasure of sharing and collaboration. By visiting different local contexts, MakerCircus aims at linking them and creating an always growing network. The proposed activities are mainly directed to schools, universities, makerspaces, hackerspaces and, in general, to each tech/culture oriented association.

1. Spread knowlege
Strengthen network
David Montenegro
speaker
Maker Faire Rome
05.10.2013

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What
To spread the basic principles of
Fablabs outside the laboratories
reaching also people who live in
small towns.

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PopUp Fablab
Florence may ‘13
Images by Fablab Firenze

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500k ab.
1000k ab.
250k ab.
2000k ab.
21%
33%
66%
91% 100%
Italian population
distribution by province
Fablab raises in the main
urban centers while italian
population is shuttered
in province, fisically too
far from the main digital
manufacturing centers.

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Digital Divide
uneven distribution of digital resources
Causes
• economics/lack of tools
• computer illitteracy
• geographic and
demographic conditions

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Digital Divide
uneven distribution of digital resources
Causes
• economics/lack of tools
• computer illitteracy
• geographic and
demographic conditions
Cauntermeasure
• share tools whit other people
• teaching each other
• gather scattered makers into
a populated community

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Avvicinare gli strumenti di
un FabLab a quella larga
fetta di popolazione troppo
lontana dai FabLab
attualmente attivi sul
territorio Italiano per
colmare di fatto una forma
molto più tangibile di
digital divide.
Bring tools of a fablab
to that part of italian
population too far
from workspaces to
actively partecipate
to their everyday life
preventing another
form of digital divide.

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Goals
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To spread the knowledge
of tools of digital manufacturing in peripheral context
To link different figures complementary
and different realities, even belonging to different contexts
To discover people with different stories,
skills and personalities

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Host
Team
Guest
People

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Network

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Friends

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Define
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Plan
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Reach
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Share
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Reproduce
Roadmap

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Foundrising
Join us for the video of the campaign
We are waiting for you

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Maker Circus
@makercircus
#makercircus
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