Learn, make, share solutions to face climate change effects.

1. The Forge of North-South Adaptations
Make, learn, share solutions to the effects of climate change

2. Our belief
- We must now adapt to the effects of climate change
- We will have to do it in the certainty of uncertainty
- Let's learn the lessons of the mobilization around the
coronavirus crisis, and the proof by making
- It is necessary to create and hand round solutions for
unforeseeable needs or even crises, in cascade.
- Let's spread objects without moving their atoms to
collapse the flows of matter and deal with logistical
disruptions.
- Let's legally share solutions instead of facing each
other tomorrow in scarcity

3. Our fundamentals
- The digital commons can be remanufacturable and
iterable object designs..
- The distributed manufacturing of open objects allows
the local adaptation of plans, and the exploration of
new economies (open hardware)
- Prototypes are not enough: we must transmit the
methods of this “new digital”.
- Fablabs and places of makers know the engineering of
these objects, and know how to pass it on to as many
people as possible
- Cultural pluralism and the inclusion of as many people
as possible in this process are keys to a peaceful future
- Transfer these practices from the places of “making” to the
territories through open documentation.
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https://www.forgecc.org

4. The project
● Document prototypes according to a common semantics adapted to the SDGs
and the dissemination of educational forms in Africa and France.
● Identify projects whose documentation already allows replicability and use
the project to promote these opportunities to cities.
● Federate French-speaking fablabs in 9 African countries and France around
the SDGs.
● Disseminate the methods and possibilities allowed by fablabs to make them
usable outside fablabs. Accompaniment of groups in educational
establishments, associations, companies, collectives, etc.
● Bring cities and fablabs closer together in order to develop their collaboration
to achieve the SDGs and fuel a culture of resilience through open cooperative
prototyping, based on digital commons and a support network.

5. Where are we now ?
● Initial documentation grid produced with a first version, operational online as of April
15, 2022.
● Development of the process prior to the launch of three waves of workshops, online
adaptation for operational testing on the first 10 workshops.
● Recruitment of first fablab testers: completed on March 25, 2022
● First wave of workshops underway and funded on West Africa.
● Documentation of the first workshops, linked to free workshops carried out on the
field and to manufacturing documentation.
● Launch of a second wave of workshops at the end of September 2022

6. The digital platform of the project
https://www.forgecc.org
● A platform providing commons
● Workshops all over the great continent
● A process transforming funding into a common good
that can be used by everyone to train people by
“replaying” workshops
● Partners representing 700 French-speaking places
● An unprecedented corpus of reusable standard
documents
● Data, documents in CC-By-SA, actors who connect,
prototypes in line with the SDGs and the resilience
challenges of ADEME territories.
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7. First wave of workshops launched in
West Africa: they are here!

8. Global operational retroplanning
● February 2023: All workshops financed, carried out, documented, shared, even
republished
● November 2022: Validation copil 3 and launch of wave 3 (10 workshops)
● September 2022: Validation copil 2 and launch of wave 2 (10 workshops)
● End of August 2022: ADEME interim report (50% of the grant executed)
● July 2022: Launch of wave 1 (test): 10 to 14 workshops - execution.
● June 2022: Validation of the first candidate workshops for funding by the CC Lab
● April-May 2022: test of the https://www.forgecc.org platform for the framework process
● March-April 2022: Recruitment of fablab testers and exchanges to develop the process -
creation of the digital platform.
● February-March 2022: Creation of the ex-nihilo activity and initial documentation grid -
choice of tool following benchmark on commons platforms.
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9. Braillerap Cameroun
A parallel operation, but going through the process of the Forge of adaptations:
Braillerap Cameroon
Faire, apprendre, partager des
imprimantes brailles open-source.
8 machines, deux types d’ateliers,
3 villes : Yaounde, Bertoua,
Baffousam.

11. And if…
● The project lasted 2 to 3 more years to build a corpus of 6 application
prototypes per ODD to reach 102 organized workshops, prototypes and
forms?
● We used the documentary corpus and partnerships and positive externalities to
accelerate the transfer of practice from fablabs to other actors (regions for
example)
● We experimented with what is happening within the core scope of the
project (open-source economic models, adaptation and non-execution of plans,
remunerative models of commons of general interest?)
● We were going to seek together the breath of two more years (2023-2024)?

12. About the Climate Change Lab
The Climate Change Lab currently revolves around 3 axes:
● Distributed manufacturing and local adaptation on the basis of digital
commons to collapse the flows of matter and recompose with local atoms and
neurons solutions in local resilience: the North-South Adaptation Forge.
● The contribution to the redesign of imaginaries to make the world after:
interventions on cooperation, foresight, editorial line of events and public debates
(for example on Low Tech).
● Research and development in trial and error for prototypes and forms
accelerating this redesign: the Sylvestre Orchester project for example.

13. The Forge of North-South
Adaptations
THANKS TO ALL OF OUR PARTNERS
ADEME, AIMF, Orange Foundation, French
Network of Fablabs, ReFFAO, Universcience,
North-South Makers… and to fablabs and
workshop participants!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION !