African Fabbers Lab: Urban Ecologies, Self-construction & Digital Fabrication
African Fabbers Lab: Urban Ecologies, Self-construction & Digital Fabrication
- urbanNext, May 01, 2019.
- 917 words.
africanCities, Middle Density, Paolo Cascone, Project, Technology and fabrication
3D printers, Africa, African Cities, Dakar, Design process, Design strategies, Designing Matter, Digital fabrication, Environmental, Experimental Fabrications, Innovation, Local materials, Marrakesh, Material experimentation, Morocco, Performative Envelope, Project, Research, self-construction, Senegal, Technology, Tradition, Urban ecology, Vernacular
he African Fabbers School (AFS) is the first school of urban ecologies, self-construction and digital fabrication in Africa.
Following participation in the Dakar and Marrakesh biennales, the school project was directed by Paolo Cascone and developed with the urban fabrication laboratory. The project was realized in the framework of the CAMon program – an initiative promoted by the NGO CEO (Centro Orientamento Educativo) with the support of AICS, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
2575-5374
Architecture Digital-fabrication Project Africa
africanCities, Middle Density, Paolo Cascone, Project, Technology and fabrication
3D printers, Africa, African Cities, Dakar, Design process, Design strategies, Designing Matter, Digital fabrication, Environmental, Experimental Fabrications, Innovation, Local materials, Marrakesh, Material experimentation, Morocco, Performative Envelope, Project, Research, self-construction, Senegal, Technology, Tradition, Urban ecology, Vernacular
he African Fabbers School (AFS) is the first school of urban ecologies, self-construction and digital fabrication in Africa.
Following participation in the Dakar and Marrakesh biennales, the school project was directed by Paolo Cascone and developed with the urban fabrication laboratory. The project was realized in the framework of the CAMon program – an initiative promoted by the NGO CEO (Centro Orientamento Educativo) with the support of AICS, the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
2575-5374
Architecture Digital-fabrication Project Africa