Presentation by Julien Lamarche from Coop La Fabrique at the Boston FabFest

1. Collective management in Fablabs
By Julien Lamarche

2. La Fabrique

3. La Fabrique
● A coop FabLab in Sherbrooke, quEBEC
● 150 members in the coop
● Renting 8500sq.ft. in an old police station
○ 4 workshops (wood, metal, FabLab, crafts)
○ Training for members and the community
○ Rental spaces
● Partnership with a business incubator
● Full operation this september!

4. What’s missing to be a certified FabLab?

5. What’s missing to be a certified FabLab?
PEOPLE!

6. Big Questions
1. How to engage members and partners into running
the FabLab?
2. How to gather the collective intelligence in the
decision making process?
3. How to design the FabLab based on the members
needs?

7. Three sets of tools

8. Three sets of tools
1. Art of hosting (Facilitation)
2. Dynamic Governance (Decision making)
3. Human centered design (Design)

9. Art of Hosting

10. Art of Hosting
Art of Hosting and Harversting
Conversations that Matter
● Worldwide group of facilitation and
co-creation practionners

11. Art of Hosting
People
● The circle
○ Everyone has it’s place
○ You can see everyone
● Check-In
○ Probe the feelings that
everyone bring to the table

12. Art of Hosting
Ideas
● World Café
○ Dynamic discussions
● Open Space Technology
○ A conference where you are
the hero

13. Art of Hosting by La Fabrique

14. Art of Hosting by La Fabrique
La Fabrique en construction
● World Café to co-create with our community
● 17 organisations
● 30 participants
● 3 questions

15. Art of hosting
References
● www.artofhosting.org
● www.openspaceworld.org
● The World Café by Brown and Isaacs
● Open Space Technology: A User's Guide by Ownen

16. Dynamic Governance

17. Dynamic Governance
Dynamic governance, or sociocracy, is based
on transparency, efficiency and equivalence
of voices

18. Dynamic Governance
Consent decision making
● No objections to the proposition,
everyone can live with it
● Three mantras
○ Good enough for now
○ Safe enough to try
○ Ok let’s find out

19. Dynamic Governance
Consent decision making
1. Present the proposal
2. Clarifying questions
3. Quick reaction rounds
4. Consent rounds

20. Dynamic governance
Strategic action
Operation

21. Dynamic Governance by La Fabrique

22. Dynamic Governance
References
● http://www.sociocracy.info
● http://sociocracyconsulting.com/
● We the people by John Buck

23. Human Centered Design

24. Human Centered Design
A process that starts with the people
you’re designing for and ends with
new solutions

25. Le design thinking

26. Le design thinking
Key mindsets for human centered design
1. Empathy
2. Prototyping
3. Embrace ambuguity
4. Learn from failure

27. Human Centered Design
The Design Kit

28. Human Centered Design by La Fabrique

29. Human Centered Design
References
● www.designkit.org
● TED Talk by Tim Brown
● Change by design by Tim Brown
● Field Guide to Human Centered Design by IDEO
● Free Online Course by Acumen

30. Your time to play, DIY way!
1. Art of hosting (Facilitation)
2. Dynamic Governance (Decision making)
3. Human centered design (Design)

31. @lafabriquecoop Lafabriquecoop
info@lafabriquecoop.org