How do we cultivate a resilient and responsive distributed design community?
From August 23rd to October 17th Fab Lab Barcelona is hosting a weekly online chat series, where guests share their personal experiences of responding to moments of crisis. The aim is to collaboratively work on a shared vision, align values, and develop best practices.
Our third guest Vaneza Caycho Ñuflo graduated with an architecture career at the National University Federico Villarreal (UNFV), and has acquired a specialization diploma in innovative furniture design Toulouse Lautrec (TLS) with professional experience in parametric design and traditional carpentry. Vaneza is a Fab Academy 2014 alumni and has completed the CBA-MIT Graduate Program in Digital Manufacturing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She is involved in project management at Fab Lab Peru Association, a member of the Latin American Fab Lab Network (FAB LAT), Fab Design Manager, Fab Kids Peru and Fab Women Makers & Fabbers. Vaneza is the CEO of iFurniture] Digital Carpentry, winners of StartUp Peru 2nd Generation, proposed to revitalize the carpentry industry by applying new technologies and innovating in design engineering.
The Resilient Makers Stories will be facilitated by Jean Luc Pierite, as part of the MDEF Residency Program. They are part of the European project Reservist that aims to establish a network of ‘reservist cells’, resilient networks that can be activated within 48hrs to switch to manufacturing medical products and services that are spiking in demand. Reservist has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101016041.