Which are the challenges for Maker CAPS? Sacha Van Tongeren, Independent Program Developer
Channel: MAKE-IT
Date: 31/03/2017

Fab City Experts talked about the challenges that CAPS for Makers will have in the future during the Fab City Summit in Amsterdam, April 2016. Some MAKE-IT partners worked in the Fab City Whitepaper draft in Amsterdam Makerversity and Fab City Campus, and showed some of the conclusions at Park Huis de Zwiger.

Fab City is a global project to develop locally productive and globally connected self-sufficient cities. It comprises an international think tank of civic leaders, makers, urbanists and innovators working on changing the paradigm of the current industrial economy where the city operates on a linear model of importing products and producing waste.

Sacha Van Tongeren is currently developing a multi-stakeholder innovation program for the Amsterdam Public Library, together with key partners Waag Society, Pakhuis de Zwijger and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and with a substantial investment from the City of Amsterdam. In the coming 5 years we will create makerspaces in at least 10 different library branches. Visitors can learn about digital technologies and participate in educational programs aimed at the so-called 21st century skills, a combination of digital fabrication, physical computing and programming. ‘Learning by making’, that is the leading principle for the program.

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