Since 2012, there has been a flowering of fablabs on the French territory.
These workshops equipped with numerically controlled machines (and more traditional tools) allow everyone to come and make everyday objects, spare parts, or even to design innovative objects. The term "fablab" refers to the standard model proposed by the Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT). Fablabs and their various variants (makerspace, open innovation laboratory, collaborative workshop, shared workshop, hackerspace...) are based on a state of mind (a culture of "doing" and learning: everyone can learn) and a set of conventions and values based on cooperation and sharing.
The website and specialized magazine Makery has undertaken to map the Fablabs in France.
Makery has identified 380 fablabs, hackerspaces, makerspaces, third places and "others" (which do not belong to any of the above categories) in France.
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Île-de-France alone accounts for 24% of them. The map of the labs is an ongoing resource. Their coordinators can fill in the description (address, activities, acquisition of specific equipment).
During the fall of 2017, Makery had sent a questionnaire to 335 French fablabs, hackerspaces and makerspaces. The 139 responses collected already allow us to draw a first panorama.
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Two-thirds of them have been created since 2015.
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93% of them are equipped with 3D printers. The most common equipment are laser cutters (71%), CNC milling machines (68%) and electronic benches (58%).
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