Discover the extended Fablab of Rennes Metropolitan area, the Labfab, inspired by Fab City concept.

1. The extended
fablab
of Rennes
The Labfab(LABoratoire de FABrication)
is the fablab of Rennes

2. An historical
ecosystem
Capital of the region
2 Universities – 67000 students
Public sector administrations
1100 companies in the ICT
International ICT R&D institute(B-COM)
Open data pioneer

3. At the origin
of the fablab
an original alliance
of founders
Superior schools(arts and engineers)
Citizenship associations
(about internet and bike repairing)
Business actors : chamber of commerce
The city of Rennes
and Rennes Métropolitain area

4. From the bootcamp
of 2012, to the
extended fablab
Bootcamp at the school of arts
Invention of our rules in the fablab rules
The french speaking network
Too much people and projects
The ambition to empower people and organisms
M.Bingham also make new things and try to use them
Step one : let’s make a fablab here with
those who want to MAKE this strange
thing, and then we’ll see how it sounds...

5. What is an extended fablab
Fablab :
A workplace
Teaching to people and organizations
Developping objects that can be iterated
Exploring new models, including open-
source and économy
Building bricks in an open écosystem
and sharing them
Being a tool so that actors can transform
willing and needs in real usable solutions
Extended :
A network of places sharing human time,
knowledge and tools.
Teaching to people teaching to people
Developping platforms for sharing, crea-
tion, and to transform objects into value (for
somebody, to solve a problem, to create an
activity). Wikis, inventories...
Contributing to collective intelligence by
open-source knowledge sharing, learning
blocks, méthods, technical and uses
cases solutions.

6. Our rules
in the fablab rules
Free workshops every week for anybody
You can use tools only with a project and sha-
ring knowledge. No fee. No other conditions.
Companies and organisms are paying and have
their days in the week
One fablab, some places with tools and
people, one inventory and one portfolio
Step one : let’s make a fablab with those
who want to MAKE things and for those
who don’t know they can.

7. Results of 2012
1st international meeting of the french
speaking fablabs
20 projects of objects
20 free workshops
Academic workshops between school
and engineers schools
400 beginners at the public workshops
Montréal – Dakar - Ouagadougou – Hué (Vietnam) – Rennes – Britanny region.
We do not have enough space and
machines... But other places want to join...

8. 2013 – the extended
fablab begins
Writingtheconceptoftheextendedfablabof
Rennes
ThecityofRennesfunds3dprinters(15),75arduino
starterskitsandtoolsfor12publicspaces
Thelabfabwinsa200000€grantfromtheFrench
state
Thelabfabrecruitsanotherfabmanager
Preparationoffrenchspeakingcursusaboutdigital
fabrication
Teachingtopeopleteachingtopeopleteachingto...
The extended fablab of Rennes at the end of 2013 :
15 places.
1 main workplace, 1 academic, 1 highschool, 12 public
spaces (with 12 people soon working on digital exclusion
and digital projects of the citizens).

9. 2013 Results
200 people using the lab
50 projects of objects
+ 27 projects emerging through the interna-
tional « DATAPLUS » challenge we launched
(France, Africa, Québec)
Bootcamp of Hué (Vietnam)
Organizing the first public event with
the 6 brittany fablabs : 4500 persons.
Projects of people selected at Maker Faire
Rome, exhibited at the Shanghai biennale of
art, in festivals, first services sold to clients.
Dataplus challenge – Hué Bootcamp – CityNoise project – Bionicohand project

10. sTrategic questions
Hybridation of historical and new forces in the
territory.
Academics
Patents
R&D
Tech
Long time
Specialized
New actors
Open-source
Prototyping
Use cases
Iteration
Physical
mashups

11. sTrategic questions
Methods to solve problems with upcycling
approche : a way to explore.
Upcycling of :
• Knowledge
• Places
• Technical resources

12. Perimeters
of the project
Geographical : from the city
to the metropolitan area ?
Knowlegde sharing perimeter : the free
and massive online curse in french launched
in march with telecom Bretagne has 12000
subscribers...

13. now
New places wanting to join
Testing business models (basic and high
level workshops, rapid prototyping, events,
working for R&D consortium, crowdfunding...)
More and more hybridations from proto-
typing runs with companies about connected
home to 3D print in the field of archeology...

14. What we are
thinking about
Building a culture of upcycling of the
resources to create an iterate new solutions is
a way to be resilient to the changes that can
happens everyday.

15. Examples of perspec-
tives for the extended
fablab of Rennes
Mobile fablab for the 43 cities of
the metropolitan area.
The territory as an inventory of machines, time,
knowledge, to MAKE things.
Public spaces storytelling with installations
Transformation of the technologies in use cases
New cursus with universities
Workshops for children to build an
« ingenious territory » for tomorrow
International cooperations
www.benjamingrosfilley.com

16. So let’s share and
build together !
Contacts :
Isabelle Pellerin
VP – Rennes Métropolitan Area
i.pellerin@ville-rennes.fr
Laurent Hamon
Member of the city council - Rennes
l.hamon@ville-rennes.fr
Hugues Aubin
In charge of the ICT
h.aubin@agglo-rennesmetropole.fr
www.labfab.fr