About Fab Lab
Fab Lab, short for Fabrication Laboratory, is a concept developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). At its heart are openness and collaboration between education, research, industry and the public. Fab Lab Halmstad has been part of the global network since spring 2016 and is connected to more than 3,000 registered labs worldwide.
Fab Lab Halmstad is one of the University’s collaboration arenas, where digital fabrication methods give companies, researchers, students, and the public access to an open platform where ideas can be prototyped, tested, and iterated quickly and easily. The strength of digitalization lies as much in collaboration, openness, and knowledge sharing as in the technology itself. It creates new opportunities in collaborations and projects, gives rise to new ones, and shortens the path from idea to innovation.
Our organisation and its parts
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Fab Lab’s organisation spans several levels, from local to global. Locally, there are six parts: Fab Lab Student (a student association), Fab Lab Innovation (which hosts the innovation projects), Fab Lab Consortium (a network for companies), Fab Lab X‑hub (external sites for the public), and Fab Lab Mobile (a mobile lab used to train external stakeholders). These six parts sit beneath the level that is our core mission: education and research.
Fab Lab Halmstad is a certified Fab Lab, which connects us to a vast network at the global level. Closest to us is the Nordic Fab Lab network. Overall, we are part of a worldwide network with over 3,000 Fab Labs that share experiences, build new connections and foster creativity.
Collaborations and networks
Nordic network
Fab Lab Halmstad takes an active part in the Nordic network, and we support one another in many different ways. Through the network we can receive help when we run into problems and offer help when we have knowledge others need. Every year a boot camp is organised at one of the Nordic labs, and we are proud to have hosted it in 2022. Fab Lab Halmstad put on a week packed with events, workshops, visits and presentations of University projects connected to Fab Lab’s activities.
International network
Each year a conference brings Fab Labs from around the world together for meaningful contact with the network, and for workshops and open forums designed to enable mutual learning through problem‑solving. The annual conference has been an important part of Fab Lab Halmstad’s development. It has made our learning and progress easier and faster.
Lars Eriksen Høeg from Fab Lab Spinderihallerne in Denmark.
