Welcome to Fab Lab Bali Innovation Community Meetup! 

Come & join us for an exciting evening of gathering, ideas-sharing, and exploration of meaningful ways to enrich, empower, and scale Bali's emerging regenerative economy! 

Built upon our 'Bali Fab Island' iniatitive, this is the first of our meetups series. We will meet, discuss, and have fun while exploring the notion of Meaningful Technologies for Bali's Emerging Regenerative Economies!

 

Guest Speakers

Tomas Diez, Executive Director Fab City Foundation, Co-Founder Meaningful Design Group

Tomas Diez is a Venezuelan Urbanist specialized in digital fabrication and its implications in the future of cities and society. He is co-founder of Fab Lab Barcelona at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the director of the Fab City Research Lab, and director of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures. He leads the Fab City Global Initiative in collaboration with an international team of thinkers and makers, and the European project manager for the Fab Foundation.

Cesar Jung-Harada, Associate Professor and Ocean-Tech Innovator, Singapore Institute of Technology

Cesar Jung-Harada is a French-Japanese designer, environmentalist, educator, and entrepreneur, passionate about ocean technology, impact innovation, and education based in Singapore. Cesar is an Associate Professor of Design at the Singapore Institute of Technology. Cesar is currently a candidate Ph.D. in Design and Ocean Innovation at the CNAM (France), Director of MakerBay LTD (Hong Kong Makerspace), Scoutbots LTD (Ocean Robotic Startup).

Eric Pan, CEO & Founder Seeed Studio

Eric founded Seeed Studio in 2008, which now became the top 1 open source hardware component manufacturer in China and top 3 globally. Deeply influenced by the spirit of maker spaces, Eric founded the first maker space called "Chaihuo" in Shenzhen, in the intent to bring the maker movement to China, and promote its culture. Eric hosted the 2012 and 2014 Maker Faire to promote the collaboration between Chinese and international makers and help grow maker culture in China.

 

When & Where

Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ Jimbaran HUB

 

Rundown

13.00 - 14.30: Mini-Workshop #1 | DIY Pop Up Lanterns: Intro to Electronics with Paper Circuit

by Paula Te, Design Technologist | Beginner Level, Suitable for All Ages

Design your own lantern in this worksop that combines electronics and crafts. We'll learn basic circuitry through paper craft, making custom switches and circuit layouts. Electronics doesn't have to be hard - it can be as sift and malleable as paper! 

15.00 - 16.30: Mini-Workshop #2 | Foldscope: Looking into Microcosmos with Paper Microcospe

by Fab Lab Bali team | Beginner Level, Suitable for All Ages

Discover another ‘universe’ ! The magic of the microcosmos! The revolutionary, democratizing Foldscope is an affordable paper origami microscope (with 140x magnification) which allows the observation of the world around us; biological to non-biological samples.  Invented by Manu Prakash from Prakash Labs at Stanford University, it is a “frugal science” tool that democratizes access to science by convening global citizen science communities to tackle planetary scale environmental challenges. 

17.00 - 17.15 : Opening & Introduction of Fab Lab Bali and Jimbaran HUB

• I Putu Agung Prianta, Director Jimbaran Hijau, Co-Founder Meaningful Design Group

• Elaine Regina, Fab Lab Bali team

17.15 - 18.30 : Sharing & Panel Discussion: Meaningful Technologies for Bali’s Emerging Regenerative Economies

• Tomas Diez, Executive Director Fab City Foundation, Co-Founder Meaningful Design Group

• Cesar Jung-Harada, Associate Professor and Ocean-Tech Innovator, Singapore Institute of Technology

• Eric Pan, CEO & Founder Seeed Studio

• Moderator: Kate Armstrong, Strategic Director Fab City Foundation

18.30 - 19.30: Community Open Floor Session

19.30 : Music!!

 

What is “Bali FAB Island?”

Bali is declared as the world’s first “Fab Island” under the Fab City Global Initiative, bringing meaningful interventions that enrich, empower and scale the local regenerative economy. Bali is leading a shift in Indonesia and the wider ASEAN region towards the relocalization of production to support a sustainable and prosperous future for the region. This presents a massive opportunity that can scale to the other 17,000 islands that affects a population of 274 million people. Combining digital transition with local manufacturing capacities, Bali will pledge to become the first island in the world to produce almost everything it consumes by 2054. 

The initiative was launched during Bali Fab Fest in October 2022 along with a 10-day immersive Fab Island Challenge where 50+ innovators from 20+ countries were involved to kickstart and prototype solutions that address the most pressing local issues around sustainability & life systems collaborating with local partners. 

As a continuation of the seed initiative, Fab Lab Bali is creating programs to work with the local communities, the rich crafts culture, and the growing innovation ecosystem in the pursuit of to be a catalyst of explorers and practitioners who are working on the greatest challenge of our time: climate crisis and social exclusion.

 

Who’s This Event For?

Innovators, creative-thinkers, entrepreneurs, change-makers, sci-tech-enthusiasts, or everyone who's passionate about making innovations for regenerative futures with communities!

 

About Us

Fab Lab Bali is an open innovation lab in Bali for individuals, collectives, organisations, and companies to propose and develop meaningful interventions that enrich, empower, and scale Bali’s emerging regenerative economy. We are doing this by providing access to digital fabrication, prototyping facilities, and education. Our lab is located at Jimbaran Hub. 

We are part of Meaningful Design Group and powered by the local partners Jimbaran Hijau, The Habibie Center, CAST Foundation, and global network of Fab City Foundation and Fab Foundation from MIT's Centre for Bits and Atoms, as well as other organizations. We serve as the interface for community innovation and implementation of the Meaningful Design principles and the local Fab City agenda in from Bali by building a collaborative network of research and innovation.

 

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