Planning

Day 1 - September 26, MSH Bordeaux, Room J. Bordes + Room 1

9:00 a.m.: Welcome

9:30 a.m.: Opening

10:15 a.m.-11:15 a.m.: Conference - Who owns the work? Reflections on future productive forms

Isabelle Berrebi-Hoffmann.

11:15 a.m.-11:25 a.m.: Break

11:25 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Session 1 - Fablabs as common spaces for knowledge

Creation of commons on welcoming people with disabilities into FabLabs, Angèle Champagne, Maison des Initiatives, de l’Engagement, du Troc et de l’Echange (MIETE), Réseau Français des FabLabs, Espaces et Communautés du Faire (RFFLabs).

FabLabs are open spaces equipped with digital machines and resource people. Six people from six French structures that welcome people with disabilities have co-written a book of shared experiences to inspire and equip other places. The different stages of this project are presented.

Biohackerspaces: Online rhizomic matrix, fruition of experimental spaces and reconfiguration of relationships with living things, Jeanne Mainetti, LEIRIS Laboratory, Montpellier.

In open spaces providing biology laboratory equipment, various experiments emerge: creation of mycotheques, verification of testicular contraceptive methods, autogynecology, culture of textiles woven by microorganisms. These practices are called biohacking, they involve a radical recomposition of the relationship with living things, which we analyze with a view to highlighting the political levers of citizen science.

FabLab IREKIA: an experimental educational model serving a triptych of actors, Cédric Tentelier, Lecturer, UMR Ecobiop INRAE/UPPA and Cécile Garcia, FabLabs support officer, IREKIA project – UPPA (University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour).

The IREKIA project aimed at developing the campuses of the Basque Coast is accompanied and based on the opening of FabLabs, innovative learning spaces promoting educational experimentation and collaboration between higher education actors and those of the territory in the sectors of activity of six strategic areas for the Basque Country. The communication will focus on presenting the results of a year of experimentation of the FabLab Aquatic Environments and emerging questions (roles, postures of the actors, transversal skills developed).

Feedback: Creation of UnionLab, a FabLab hosted by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Polytechnique of the Marien NGOUABI University in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo - A symbol between France and Congo, Bertrand Gildas Moboula Mokoty, Executive Director UnionLab FabLab, Vice-President of the Traits d'Union association.

UnionLab, the first FabLab in Congo Brazzaville, was established with the financial support of the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the French Embassy in Congo. Located at the Marien NGOUABI University, it offers training and prototyping opportunities. In 2024, various workshops have been organized and a fundraising campaign is planned to expand its facilities. This FabLab supports Congolese youth and strengthens Franco-Congolese relations.

12:45 - 14:00: Cocktail lunch

14:00-15:30 Session 2 - Methodology for science and society

From tinkering to the commons: methodologies for analyzing and documenting practices in FabLabs, Pierre Grangé-Praderas, University of Bordeaux, FabLab Coh@bit, Anne Lehmans, University of Bordeaux, IMS, Karel Soumagnac, University of Bordeaux, IMS.

The analysis of “doing together” within FabLabs, particularly Coh@bit at the University of Bordeaux, makes it possible to identify the dynamics of social innovation in this type of third place. Based on an epistemology of tinkering, practices that break with the school form are being put in place. To study them, multiple methodologies are used, between observation and capturing knowledge and meaning under construction. The documentation of the activity is built around the traces of learning and a shared emotion. However, participatory methods more focused on sharing and communicating about doing things together still need to be built to enhance the dynamics of social innovation within FabLabs.

Mediator journeys and reports on documentation, Susan Kovacs, university professor in SIC, ENSSIB, ELICO research unit, and Angèle Stalder, lecturer in SIC, Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, ELICO research unit.

This communication is a partial restitution of a field survey conducted in a Villeurbanne fablab as part of the ANR SAPS FabLabMore from November 2022 to April 2024. We will focus on the mediators and their career paths to identify the links between trajectories (personal, professional and training) and forms of mediation preferred, worked on or questioned. The question is how these actors' career paths -- and in particular the aspects of these career paths that make it possible to identify relationships with knowledge, documents, documentation and communication -- are part of the collective action of a space of doing. Based on observations of practices and interviews-discussions, we propose portraits of mediators by identifying elements that can explain ways of doing and having done that vary from one actor to another: training, experience, activism and commitment, relationships with the public and life paths.

Documenting your practice in FabLab: documentation for yourself, documentation for others, documentation of yourself? Case study in EPIDE, Adeline Entraygues, MCF in Information and Communication Sciences, ITIC Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Information-Documentation Department, Researcher at LERASS, Paul-Valéry University Montpellier 3, Yolande Maury, Alexandre Licata, Designer, Fablab Manager.

This contribution questions the "documentation" aspect of the practice during a preparatory workshop for the creation of a fablab in EPIDE (ANR FablabMore). It highlights the gap between the richness of the "process documentation", for oneself and for action, and the "documentation produced" by volunteers, memory of the activity for others, valuing the final productions more than the intermediate achievements, with an important place given to the visual.

4:00 p.m.: Coh@bit Workshop at the IUT of the University of Bordeaux (Gradignan)

6:00 p.m.: Concert + Cocktail at the IUT of the University of Bordeaux (Gradignan)

Day 2 - September 27, MSH of Bordeaux, Room J. Bordes + Room 1

9:00 a.m.: Welcome

9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.: Conference - Residents & researchers: thinking about territories and experimenting with alternatives through the commons

Julien Mary, historian, IR CNRS, scientific referent of the MSH Sud and Joëlle Goudal (subject to confirmation), mayor of Celles

This two-voice conference proposes to focus on the participatory dynamics between academic and non-academic actors animating various third-party spaces (science shops, third research places, etc.), designed as intermediation spaces promoting cooperation between territorial and scientific actors. What are these third spaces called today? What approaches to research and society? For what purposes? After a general contextualization, we will focus specifically on a unique experience that is nevertheless rich in lessons: the rehabilitation of a small village in Hérault, whose project, collective without being communitarian, autonomous without being secessionist, works on the question of alternatives and commons, thus contributing to questioning, from the margins, the centrality of the issues at stake in this conference.

10:30-11:00: Break

11:00-13:00 Session 3 - Documenting activities in FabLabs

Documentation in school fablabs: organizing and promoting the traces of "doing together", Elodie Hippolyte, PhD student in education and training sciences, Interuniversity Laboratory of Education and Communication Sciences (LISEC - UR 2310), University of Haute-Alsace, Canopé Network.

Documentation in school fablabs involves both knowledge production issues and transdisciplinary academic skills such as writing, critical thinking, cooperation or the use of digital tools. How can we produce and preserve traces throughout the project? How can we organize and enhance these traces of “doing together” to feed the documentation? These are the questions we asked ourselves as a mediator-researcher during our dual-purpose research-intervention, transformative on a praxeological level and comprehensive on an epistemic level. This communication aims to share our reflection and our experience within the framework of the “Fablab at school” system.

The interview and its context: documenting FabLab users and managers through 360° video, Léa Degeuse, PhD student in Information and Communication Sciences, IMS - UMR 5218, University of Bordeaux, Charles-Alexandre Delestage, MCF in Information and Communication Sciences, MICA - UR 4426, University of Bordeaux Montaigne.

The study of practices in situ often calls upon transcribed interviews, however the tools used for data collection and analysis do not always allow to fully grasp the context in which the interview is situated, nor to take into account the presence and influence of the researcher in it. The use of 360° video in the context of interviews allows not to erase the role of the researcher by including him in the recording, but also to offer a visual immersion in the ecosystem studied in order to better understand the situated remarks. The communication will report on the use of 360° video during interviews conducted at the FabLab Coh@bit of the University of Bordeaux, highlighting the possibilities of analyzing the spaces of doing.

Documenting the space of doing, a case of actors of the transition in open cooperation, Eric Lacombe, Lilian Ricaud, Mélanie Lacayrouze.

Transition actors who subscribe to systemic thinking (Meadows, 2008) seek to act primarily on social levers, protecting themselves from the techno-solutionism of technical levers, which is based on a problematic understanding of the energy and material dynamics of the past (Fressoz, 2024). However, in projects around transitions, questions of open cooperation (Sanojca, Briand, 2018) frequently come up against cultural silos (Marseault, Briand, 2021). The conduct of collaborative projects led by actors working in sincere sharing thus calls for methodological innovations to go beyond the logic of structure and self-interest so that what is done by one can be of use to others. Selected in 2023 during ADEME's call for commons, Resilience of territories, the QR Cartes project seeks to respond to this challenge. This map generator aims to create resilience toolboxes and stimulate collective action (https://wiki.resilience-territoire.ademe.fr/wiki/QR_cartes). The communication presents a framework of “cooperative transactions” (Zacklad, 2020) of a tool adapted to work on complex subjects, questioning the particularities of an open cooperation in sincere sharing, compared to the now classic framework of FabLabs (Zacklad, 2021). 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Lunch cocktail

2:00 p.m.-2:45 p.m.: Conference - Fablabs at the service of the digital emancipation of Africans: Navigating between utopias and heterotopias

Thomas MBoa, Professor at the Higher School of Information and Communication Sciences and Techniques (ESSTIC), University of Yaoundé 2, researcher at CEIMIA (Montreal), founder and director of MboaLab in Yaounde

With their ever-increasing number in Africa, we can say that Africans have not remained insensitive to the promises of Fablabs. In this communication, which is based on ethnographic research with a dozen FabLabs in Africa, the strategies of circumvention, diversion, and even creolization are presented, which contribute to the digital emancipation of Africans and make FabLabs true heterotopias (Foucault 1966).

2:45-3:00 p.m.: Break

3:00-4:15 p.m.: Session 4 For a common culture

Creation and animation of FabLabs in West Africa, Koffi Dodji Honou, Co-Founder of HV-FabLab (Côte d'Ivoire), Vice-President of ReFFAO (Francophone Network of FabLabs in West Africa).

FabLabs in French-speaking West Africa promote social innovation and inclusion by offering digital learning spaces in disadvantaged neighborhoods. By filling the limits of the education system at various levels, they reduce inequalities by providing essential infrastructures for practical learning. Their projects, ranging from training to agriculture and technology, as well as smart cities, meet local needs. In addition, the integration of FabLabs into urban policies promotes sustainable development and citizen innovation. Ultimately, FabLabs transform local communities by advocating learning by doing, collaboration and innovation.

Knowledge commons in third places: what positions for Fablabs in Mali?, Mohamed Coulibaly, University of Ségou (Mali), MICA.

In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of third places in Africa, particularly digital manufacturing spaces (Fablabs). The philosophy behind Fablabs is based on the spirit of "Do it yourself" (DIY), doing it by yourself and "Do it with others" (DIWO), doing it together. This principle of doing, evolving through trial and error and sharing tools and methods is presented as a complementary device to the system of access to knowledge and know-how. Through this research, we question African FabLabs, particularly those deployed in Mali, in order to identify the forms of knowledge commons and their circulation process.

Articulation between space and action: the FabLab, information culture in meaning and values. A new social action?, Adeline Entraygues, MCF in Information and Communication Sciences, ITIC Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Information-Documentation Department, Researcher at LERASS, Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, Catherine Pascal, Bordeaux Montaigne University, MICA.

How does action in the fablab space promote an alternative modality of information culture experienced as an articulation between transmitted knowledge and social action? The notion of information culture and the impact of the creative and the sensitive are questioned in addition to the standards and the documentation in order to question what a social action of another type could be in a fablab project situation, for example. The social dimension with political and ethical relevance thus questioned, this space which envisages other documentary materialities would have an arrangement and a scope of community type leading to a mediation of another type of knowledge in the City. Is it a new social action?

4:15 p.m.: Conclusion by Franc Morandi, professor emeritus at the University of Bordeaux