Published August 10, 2025 | Version v2
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Fab25 Czechia – Bridge the Gap

  • 1. ROR icon Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
  • 2. ROR icon Umeå University

Description

FAB25 Czechia is the 2025 edition of the FABx event – the flagship gathering for FabLabs, makers, innovators, researchers, educators, and artists. This year, the event is united under the theme “Bridge the Gap.”

The Fab 25 research papers stream includes original scholarly writing from researchers studying the Fab Lab movement, its ambitions and its impact from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, engineering, science and technology studies, business and management, education, urban studies, media and design, and many more.

Table of contents

1             TRANSLOCAL IMPACT

1.1       Measuring the Impacts of Fab Labs: A Review of Quantitative Research and Evidence (2nd runner up Fab 25 best paper award)

Jan Peuckert, Victoria Wenzelmann and Gerrit Rüdebusch

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211909

1.2          Blueprint for Urban Manufacturing – An Exploratory Multi-Dimensional Canvas

Matteo Subet, Serena Cangiano, Enrico Bassi and Desirée Veschetti

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211913

1.3       Open-Source Software and Open-Source Hardware under the new European Product Liability Directive

Tarmio Emanuel, Sathya Frei and Greta Sparzynski

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211917

2             EDUCATION

2.1       Developing a Co-Creation Makerspaces on Renewable Energy Technology for Children: Multi-Stakeholder Insights on Challenges and Solutions

Christian Stadlmann and Andrea Holzinger

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211923

2.2       Emerging opportunities for digital fabrication education. The making of the ‘Caparazón de madera’ pavilion

Ronan Bolaños, Brandon Velazquez and Marcos Ontiveros

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211929

2.3       The network beyond the network: the potential of FabLabs as partners in participatory environmental monitoring efforts

Óscar González Fernández and Rebecca Anne Peters

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211933

3             LOCAL EXPERIMENTS

3.1       Embodied Knowledge in Digital Spaces: Towards Human-Centered Fabrication Formats

Jorge Muñoz Zanón

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211937

3.2       Hyperlocal Bio-Hygienic Technologies (Fab 25 best paper)

Tomas Vivanco

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211943

3.3       Opportunities and considerations for flexible electronics fabrication using a vinyl cutter (1st runner up Fab 25 best paper award)

Jessica Stanley

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211947

3.4       The Algorithmic Thobe: A Parametric Exploration of Jordanian Heritage Through 3D Printing

Batoul al-Rashdan

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16211955

4             PREPRINTS

4.1       Knowledge dynamics and makerspaces: proximities and local development in the Central Europe

Lukas Danko, Grzegorz Micek and Karolina Kapustka

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16214366

4.2       Flexible Fabrication-Driven Design Approach for Product Development in Fab Labs

Georgi Chervendinev and Emilia Ochkova-Dimitrova

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16214370

4.3       From Memory to 3D Prototype: Constructing the Collective Memory of the Cultural Center “La Carmela” Puebla, Mexico

David Valdez

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16214374.

4.4      Comparative Analysis of Standard and Casting Resins in mSLA 3D Printing for Precision Lost Wax Casting Applications

Michał Burza

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16214378.

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Proceedings of the Fab25 Research Papers