Fab25: Fab25 - Bridge the Gap Prague, Czechia, July 4-11, 2025

Conference website	https://fab2025.cz/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fab25
Abstract registration deadline	February 3, 2025
Submission deadline	March 3, 2025

Fab25 is the 2025 edition of the Fab Lab International Conference and Fab City Summit. The central theme is 'Bridging the Gap'.

The Fab 25 research papers stream invites original scholarly writing from researchers studying the Fab Lab movement, its ambitions and its impact from a wide range of disciplines, including computer science, engineering, science and technology studies, business and management, education, urban studies, media and design, and many more.

Submission Guidelines

Starting in 2025, we use a two-tier approach to papers: fully peer-reviewed papers (full papers) and preprints.

The full paper track uses a two-step submission procedure.

1. In the first step, submit an abstract of the paper you are planning to write (max. 800 words). Abstracts will receive guiding for submitting a full paper (deadline 3 February 2025).
2. In the second step, you will submit a full paper ready for review. (Deadline 3 March 2025) -- Your full paper will be reviewed and if reviews are positive invited for publication and presentation by the end of April. Camera ready papers, using the template file provided on acceptance, are due by 30 May 2025.

We will provide a second track for prerpints. Preprints do not undergo peer review, they will be screned by our experts and if deemed suitable included in the conference for presentation.

All papers must be original, not published earlier, and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

Abstract: up to 800 words (see mandatory structure below).

Full paper (peer-reviewed or preprents) should be approx. 3500-4000 words in length,

The following paper categories are welcome:

• empirical qualitative and/or quantitative study
• technical experiment
• conceptual, position paper

Please note: abstracts that describe planned work have little chance to get accepted as full papers; however, they can be submitted as study-protocols to the preprint tier.

List of Topics

• Entrepreneurship and Open, Diverse Cultures – including commons-based peer-production, social entrepreneurship, alternative and non capitalist enterprise
• Ecological Transition and Sustainability Transformation – including local economies, climate change adaptation, urban resilience, just transitions
• Inclusive Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Innovation – including eco-innovation, grassroots innovation, anti-colonial science, decentralized Internet, AI for good
• Inclusive Education and Life Long Learning – including project-based learning, postcolonial education, postcapitalist learning spaces, critical pedagogy
• Life Science and other New Frontiers – including biohacking for good, material innovation, citizen science, sociomateriality, design for ethics
• Woman Makers – for any specifically woman makers related contributions not covered under one of the above topics

Mandatory Structure of Abstracts

1. Purpose of the paper – What are the reason(s) for writing the paper or the aims of the research?
2. Design/methodology/approach – How are the objectives achieved? Include the main method(s) used for the research. What is the approach to the topic and what is the theoretical or subject scope of the paper?
3. Data/sample – What data has been collected (if any) and how?
4. Findings – What was found in the course of the work? This will refer to analysis, discussion, or results.
5. Research limitations/implications – If research is reported on in the paper this section must be completed and should include suggestions for future research and any identified limitations in the research process.
6. Practical implications – What outcomes and implications for practice, applications and consequences are identified? Not all papers will have practical implications but most will. What changes to practice should be made as a result of this research/paper?
7. Original value of paper – What is new in the paper? State the value of the paper and to whom.

Committees

Program Committee

• Cindy Kohtala, chair
• Peter Troxler, chair

Organizing committee

• tba.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to fab24 <at> easychair <dot> org.