The forge of North-South adaptations
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The document discusses the Forge of North-South Adaptations project, which aims to help communities adapt to climate change impacts through distributed manufacturing and sharing of open source solutions. The project will document prototypes aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals and conduct workshops to spread these solutions across French-speaking Africa and France. The first wave of workshops is underway in West Africa. The project seeks to connect cities and makerspaces to collaboratively address resilience challenges through open, cooperative prototyping based on digital commons and networking support.
The forge of North-South adaptations
- 1. The Forge of North-South Adaptations Make, learn, share solutions to the effects of climate change
- 2. Our belief - We must now adapt to the effects of climate change - We will have to do it in the certainty of uncertainty - Let's learn the lessons of the mobilization around the coronavirus crisis, and the proof by making - It is necessary to create and hand round solutions for unforeseeable needs or even crises, in cascade. - Let's spread objects without moving their atoms to collapse the flows of matter and deal with logistical disruptions. - Let's legally share solutions instead of facing each other tomorrow in scarcity
- 3. Our fundamentals - The digital commons can be remanufacturable and iterable object designs.. - The distributed manufacturing of open objects allows the local adaptation of plans, and the exploration of new economies (open hardware) - Prototypes are not enough: we must transmit the methods of this “new digital”. - Fablabs and places of makers know the engineering of these objects, and know how to pass it on to as many people as possible - Cultural pluralism and the inclusion of as many people as possible in this process are keys to a peaceful future - Transfer these practices from the places of “making” to the territories through open documentation. - https://www.forgecc.org
- 4. The project ● Document prototypes according to a common semantics adapted to the SDGs and the dissemination of educational forms in Africa and France. ● Identify projects whose documentation already allows replicability and use the project to promote these opportunities to cities. ● Federate French-speaking fablabs in 9 African countries and France around the SDGs. ● Disseminate the methods and possibilities allowed by fablabs to make them usable outside fablabs. Accompaniment of groups in educational establishments, associations, companies, collectives, etc. ● Bring cities and fablabs closer together in order to develop their collaboration to achieve the SDGs and fuel a culture of resilience through open cooperative prototyping, based on digital commons and a support network.
- 5. Where are we now ? ● Initial documentation grid produced with a first version, operational online as of April 15, 2022. ● Development of the process prior to the launch of three waves of workshops, online adaptation for operational testing on the first 10 workshops. ● Recruitment of first fablab testers: completed on March 25, 2022 ● First wave of workshops underway and funded on West Africa. ● Documentation of the first workshops, linked to free workshops carried out on the field and to manufacturing documentation. ● Launch of a second wave of workshops at the end of September 2022
- 6. The digital platform of the project https://www.forgecc.org ● A platform providing commons ● Workshops all over the great continent ● A process transforming funding into a common good that can be used by everyone to train people by “replaying” workshops ● Partners representing 700 French-speaking places ● An unprecedented corpus of reusable standard documents ● Data, documents in CC-By-SA, actors who connect, prototypes in line with the SDGs and the resilience challenges of ADEME territories. ●
- 7. First wave of workshops launched in West Africa: they are here!
- 8. Global operational retroplanning ● February 2023: All workshops financed, carried out, documented, shared, even republished ● November 2022: Validation copil 3 and launch of wave 3 (10 workshops) ● September 2022: Validation copil 2 and launch of wave 2 (10 workshops) ● End of August 2022: ADEME interim report (50% of the grant executed) ● July 2022: Launch of wave 1 (test): 10 to 14 workshops - execution. ● June 2022: Validation of the first candidate workshops for funding by the CC Lab ● April-May 2022: test of the https://www.forgecc.org platform for the framework process ● March-April 2022: Recruitment of fablab testers and exchanges to develop the process - creation of the digital platform. ● February-March 2022: Creation of the ex-nihilo activity and initial documentation grid - choice of tool following benchmark on commons platforms. ● ●
- 9. Braillerap Cameroun A parallel operation, but going through the process of the Forge of adaptations: Braillerap Cameroon Faire, apprendre, partager des imprimantes brailles open-source. 8 machines, deux types d’ateliers, 3 villes : Yaounde, Bertoua, Baffousam.
- 11. And if… ● The project lasted 2 to 3 more years to build a corpus of 6 application prototypes per ODD to reach 102 organized workshops, prototypes and forms? ● We used the documentary corpus and partnerships and positive externalities to accelerate the transfer of practice from fablabs to other actors (regions for example) ● We experimented with what is happening within the core scope of the project (open-source economic models, adaptation and non-execution of plans, remunerative models of commons of general interest?) ● We were going to seek together the breath of two more years (2023-2024)?
- 12. About the Climate Change Lab The Climate Change Lab currently revolves around 3 axes: ● Distributed manufacturing and local adaptation on the basis of digital commons to collapse the flows of matter and recompose with local atoms and neurons solutions in local resilience: the North-South Adaptation Forge. ● The contribution to the redesign of imaginaries to make the world after: interventions on cooperation, foresight, editorial line of events and public debates (for example on Low Tech). ● Research and development in trial and error for prototypes and forms accelerating this redesign: the Sylvestre Orchester project for example.
- 13. The Forge of North-South Adaptations THANKS TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS ADEME, AIMF, Orange Foundation, French Network of Fablabs, ReFFAO, Universcience, North-South Makers… and to fablabs and workshop participants! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !