3D Printing for the Post-COVID World - Is it inspirational or overrated?
Channel: ITAS | Institute for Technology Assessment
Date: 2021-04-14

3D Printing for the Post-COVID World - Is it inspirational or overrated?

In this public event on Tuesday, 23 March 2021, we discussed 3D printing and the accompanying societal changes with internationally renowned experts. Could 3D printing be an important step towards a more local and responsible economy after the pandemic? Could it make our medical system more flexible, individualized, and innovative? What ideas from recent 3D printing visions can we take as inspiration for post-crisis social change? Or are the possibilities for change with 3D printing overrated?

On the virtual podium:

Alan Gershenfeld, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Neil Gershenfeld – Co-authors of "Designing Reality: How to Survive and Thrive in the Third Digital Revolution" and active in the FabFoundation, the umbrella organization of the thousands of FabLabs across the globe

Angela Daly – Co-director of the Strathclyde Centre for Internet Law & Policy

Carla Alvial Palavicino – Sustainability and innovation researcher at the Center for Global Challenges, Utrecht University

Host: Kimsy von Reischach

The event was organized by the ITAS project “Vision assessment of scalable 3D printing in the Cluster of Excellence 3D Matter Made to Order” https://www.itas.kit.edu/projekte_loes19_va3d.php

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