HELLO ALL ! Welcome to our crowdfunding page presenting our documentary project on FabLabs in Africa and South America ! Thank you so much for being here and thanks a million should you help us to achieve our objective and launch this great project <3

We're going to meet passionate people who want to change the world out of their garage. We want to understand if the collaborative economy is a viable model for our world. We'd like to understand why the world of "makers" is still so underground, even though there's more than 600 makerspaces in Europe, and they are super open to all.

As we travel, we will build piece by piece a set of resources out of which our video documentary will be the prime jewel. Our website will relay portraits and interviews of makers and entrepreneurs, and we'll post podcasts about more general questions on new technologies, the collaborative economy, a peaceful world...

We'll be interviewing:

- Gearbox in Nairobi, Kenya

- Winam Lab in Kisumu, Kenya

- Ekurhuleni FabLab near Johannesburg, South Africa,

- FIEMG in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

- Colectivo Nexo in Sao Paulo, Brazil

- Mirante Lab in Sao Paulo, Brazil

- Isvor FabLab in Sao Paulo, Brazil

- Fundacion FabLab Cordoba in Cordoba, Argentina

Who are we ?

We're Iris and Joachim, how do you do! We're two business school alumni, and we met in our school's audiovisual club, where we learned to shoot and edit films.

Iris is a people person. She's lives abroad and she came back fluent in four languages (French, English, Spanish and Portuguese).

Joachim is super curious, and he finds everything interesting. Just this year, he learned electronics, coding, drawing and Portuguese.

To round off our four years of business school, and to paraphrase Gandhi, we'd like to be a part of the change we want to see in the world.

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