ride the wave

MIT Media Lab’s Neil Gershenfeld and Majora Carter from the Sustainable South Bronx have come together to create the SSBx Fablab™.

“Sustainable South Bronx seeks to inspire area residents to demonstrate their own strength and vision by helping to create a more livable, breathable, and vibrant community from the grassroots level up.”

“[The Fablab aims to] bring “digital fabrication”, the modern means of production, to ordinary people for solving community problems. Ideas are conceived and designed in the digital world, and can be realized in the physical world through the FabLAB. Equally as important, these ideas, designs, and schematics can be shared digitally through the international FabLAB network as a kind of “Open Source Hardware.””

The FabFellows, (including fellow ITP alumni) will encourage and empower the community to learn by doing. The FabFellows will enable access, inspire creativity, innovation, and sustainable business solutions for the South Bronx community. The use of recyclable and recycled materials will enable the physical revitalization of the South Bronx.

An illustration of mine, taken to the lasercutter, later used to make a print.