Presentation given at the "Jornada de reflexió sobre el 3D per a l'ús empresarial”, 3 December 2014, Barcelona

1. Reindustrialisation
!
How Digital Manufacturing
Can Change Cities!
"
Peter Troxler"
p.troxler@hr.nl"
University of Applied
Sciences Rotterdam"
Research Centre"
Creating 010"

2. 1993"
photo peter troxler 1993!

3. 2007"
photo frank oxener 2007!

4. Fab Lab"
Fab Lab (Neil Gershenfeld, MIT, 2001)
Center for Bits and Atoms
"How to make (almost) anything”"
3D printing
CNC milling"
Laser cutting"
Microcontroller programming"
Electronics"
" Photo © 2012 Manon Mostert – van der Sar, with permission"

5. Maker Movement"
Makerspaces"
MAKE magazine"
MAKER faire"
MAKER shed"
http://makermedia.com (ex O'Reilly)"
"
Techshop Inc."
Bay Area"
The Maker Movement Manifesto:
Rules for Innovation in the new World of
Crafters, Hackers and Tinkerers"
Duplo Brick to Brio Track adapter by Zydac"

6. digital fabrication"

7. icons laura pandelle 2013!

8. accessible"

9. icons laura pandelle 2013!

10. 2014"
photo fab lab zurich 2014!

11. romantic"
a new renaissance reconciling the liberal arts and
science and technology"

12. revolutionary"
fundamentally changing how we imagine that
manufacturing works"

13. paradigm shift"
mass manufacturing"
industrial revolution!
• mass consumption"
• standardization"
• design = sophistication"
boutique manufacturing"
smart industry!
• LV HV HC"
• customization"
• design = customer intimacy"

14. Who Takes Notice"
Global Players"
Fab Lab: Schlumberger, Aramco,
Chevron – Techshop: Ford, BMW –"
MAKE: DARPA"
"
Airbus, Northrop Grumman"
"
Regional Players"
Fab Lab Amersfoort"
Fab City Barcelona"
City of Rotterdam" © 2012 complexitys.con, cc-by-sa"

15. retail"
3D printing"

16. 3D hubs"
new manufacturing"

17. Laisser-Faire"
• Turin" • Milan"
• Lille"
• Leipzig"
• Amsterdam"

18. Government Initiatives"
• Belfast"
– together with Derry"
– European Union
Peace Programme:
GBP 1.35 mio"
– 100 people / week"
– a few companies"
• Barcelona"
– Fab City"

21. Bottom-Up Strategies"
• Rotterdam" • London"
– 2 Fab Labs"
– 4 Hacker/Maker Spaces"
– Institute of Making (UCL)"
• Sheffield"
– Access Space Media
Lab, Refab Space,
Hackers and Makers,
ROCO Creative Coop"

22. Rotterdam"
• Stadslab Rotterdam"
• HET LAB, Alexander"
• RDM Makerspace"
• Made in 4Havens"
• …."
• Rotterdam Maakstad"
• Platform Digital Manufacturing"
• 3D Proeftuin"
• …"
• Fieldlab 3D Printing"

23. SCHIEBLOCK
> P. 50/51
STADSLAB
PROJECT 3D-PRINTING, PRODUCT DESIGN
RIJNHAVEN
> P. 38/39
STADSHAVENS
CITY PORT ROTTERDAM
RDM CAMPUS
> P. 2/3
AQUA DOCK
> P. 26/27
REMISE RET
PROJECT FUTURE MOBILITY
VAN GANSEWINKEL
PROJECT FUTURE MOBILITY
AHOY
SHELL ECO-MARATHON
> P. 66/67
CONCEPT HOUSE VILLAGE
> P. 33/35
FRUIT TERMINAL
> P. 70/71
WEST-KRUISKADE
PROJECT INFRATECTURE
ELEKTRISCH VERVOER CENTRUM
PROJECT FUTURE MOBILITY
01

24. City Strategies"
Involvement"
Partners"
Turin"
Milan"
Lille"
Leipzig"
London"
Sheffield"
Rotterdam"
Belfast"
Barcelona"
?"

25. Not Relevant"
Method"
• Little to no involvement"
Consequence"
• Random effects"

26. Big Money"
Method"
• Include in substantial
priority of city
development"
• Allocate substantial funds
(>300.000/year, 3+ years)"
• Set clear targets/
performance indicators"
• “Deploy an instrument”"
Consequence"
• Will deliver on target (as
likely as any other similar
operation) "

27. Welcoming"
Method"
• Creating an environment"
• Interest and
understanding"
• Serendipity"
Consequence"
• Emergence of new
models"
• Activism, chaos"
• Micro initiatives"
• Limited impact"

28. Hybrid"
Method"
• Multi-Stakeholder
approach"
• Top-down / bottom-up /
lateral"
• “Respond to a need”"
Consequence"
• Emergence"
• Growth potential (lateral)"
• Expect the unexpected"
• Long-term effect"

29. Lab Centric Approaches"
Equity"
Fairness"
Diversity"
"
Power and Economic Relations"
Responsible Use of Resources and
Sustainability"
"
Third Places "
Distributed and Collaborative ""
"
Social" Political"
Empowerment"
Technology"

30. Role of Government"
EU
na+onal
regional
local
Interface?"

31. City Strategies"
Involvement"
Partners"
Turin"
Milan"
Lille"
Leipzig"
London"
Sheffield"
Rotterdam"
Belfast"
Barcelona"
?"

32. Rotterdam"
Private"
• Roffab"
• HET Lab"
• RDM Makerspace"
• Made in 4 Havens"
• Platform Digital
Manufacturing"
Public"
• Stadslab"
• RDM Campus"
• Stadshavens"
• Rotterdam Maakstad"
• Fieldlab 3D Printing"

33. Core Values"
Openness"
'right to produce'"
open source in design & hardware"
"
Ownership"
making city"
responsibility"
"
Experiment"
fail quickly
but cheaply" Thank You"