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Cindy Kohtala

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Visual stories from the field

photograph taken at the FAB10 international fab lab conference in Barcelona of the wooden frame of an open source car. There are some people standing around looking at the chassis which is ribbed wooden parts with four car wheels and tires. — fab labs

FAB10 2014

photograph of a group of people-of-colour makers building 3D printers. In the foreground a young man and a young woman wearing a FAB15 baseball cap are looking at the printer they are building together and have their hands on parts putting it together. There are wires, metal and plastic parts visible. In the background two other people are visible looking at the work going on in the room or at printed parts. — fab labs

FAB15 2019

photograph of a mural on the wall of the fab lab inside the Vigyan Ashram workshop. the mural is a black line drawing indicative of circuits and in the centre the words FAB LAB are in red and black lettering. some sheet materials are leaning up against the wall. — fab labs

Vigyan Ashram Fab Lab

photograph of a solar cooker at Vigyan Ashram, India. the solar cooker is large and mirrored, shaped as a convex structure on a metal frame. there is a cooking pot in the middle. it is facing the sun. behind the cooker is a dome structure, a blue arrow, and other various implements on the ground. the sun is casting strong shadows of the trees. — fieldwork

Vigyan Ashram

black and white photograph of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, near the river. the Williamsburg Bridge is visible in the background as a compositional element. there are two benches looking towards the river and towards Manhattan. on one bench a woman is sitting looking forward and a young man with a baseball cap backwards is looking at his phone. on the other bench a man is lying down reading a newspaper. he has a skateboard on the ground beside him. on the left side two people, maybe tourists, are sitting on a rock looking at their phones. — gallery

New York

photograph of FabLab Amsterdam, interior. one person is seen from the back sitting at an electronics station lit by a magnifier desk lamp. there are racks of electronics components above the desk. on the right another person is standing working at a computer. everywhere there are various tools and fab lab miscellaneous objects. — fab labs

FabLab Amsterdam

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