Vote for the 4th Solidarity FabLabs challenge
Since 2015, we have offered free training in our Solidarity FabLabs to young people leading difficult lives. In the FabLabs they learn digital manufacturing, teamwork and perhaps a future trade.
Our international challenge is aimed at them. It allows them to use our FabLabs to develop a project from A to Z and show everything they are capable of doing today.
This year, it is all about using digital technology to devise and produce creations for the worlds of fashion, design and the arts.
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13 teams competing!
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The magic dressFabLabInox, Gueugnon
Working with a dressmaker and a graphic designer, several unemployed young people in civic service created an embroidered dress lit up using fibre optic lights. They made its patterns using a...
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Pretty, therapeutic slippersOngola FabLab, Yaounde
How to energise local craftsmanship and make it relevant to today? Two young people accepted the challenge by teaming up with a cabinetmaker and using FabLab technologies. Aged 19 and 24, and...
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The mobile photo studioFablab La Verrière, Montreuil
This project is inspired by the work of contemporary photographers, themselves inspired by African photo studios of the 1950s. For the young participants in the Solidarity FabLab, the idea was to...
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The handwriting lampEL Fabspace, Tunis
This creation was born when young people from districts of Tunis and other regions met craftspeople and an artist at the FabLab. A joint brainstorming of the poetic concept of street words was...
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Living paintingFablab Solidaire Senécole
The art created by a painter and two other youngsters is an interactive canvas that detects touch and replies with spoken information. It is connected and embeds in the work a video character...
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Electronic clothingOngola FabLab, Yaounde
Combining aspects of healthcare, fashion and safety, these garments incorporate electronics to provide light, measure body temperature, and geo-locate the wearer. Three young people aged 23 to 35...
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Kinshasa in 3DLisungi Fablab
Eight young people aged 19 to 27 on forced breaks from their studies took part in a Solidarity FabLab to learn about digital manufacturing (modelling, electronics, cutting, printing, woodworking,...
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Sculpture in handGarageLab Ortzadar, San Sebastian
Making sculpture accessible to the blind and visually impaired by reproducing works on a small scale: that was what the 16 to 18-year-old students of the 2nd Chance School wanted to do in their...
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Music, dance and vice versaRobisz.to
Three young makers (19 to 24 years old), who participated in a social project dedicated to young people in difficult life situations, invented with a musician a device allowing to combine dance,...
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The bus redesignedGaragelab - Llindar, Cornellà de Llobregat
Around one hundred youngsters aged 15 to 21 who are no longer in mainstream schooling turned a bus into a source of information and guidance that will tour Barcelona in search of young people....
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Fashion through recyclingLisungi Fablab
Three women aged 19 to 23 on forced breaks from their studies trained in the FabLab, where they designed a line of clothing and accessories made from recycled materials such as thread, bottle...
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Human/machine designLa Coopérative Pointcarré, Saint-Denis
"La Coopérative Poincarré" Solidarity FabLab, Saint-Denis (France) Artists and young people in civic service offered a new take on artistic production processes by turning a digital cutting plotter...
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Designer lightsLacq Odyssée, Mourenx
These original creations are the work of a group of young people who are not in education or training. The FabLab allowed them to put their ideas into practice, and then to consider marketing:...
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