A Trip to Bhutan

Since 2005, the Fab Foundation has organized the annual FabX Event, an international conference that is hosted by a different country every year. The conference averages 1,200 participants from 55 countries that come together to share, discuss, collaborate and create communities around the different local and global interests regarding digital manufacturing, innovation and technology found in fab labs.

The country of Bhutan hosted Fab23 | Bhutan Designing Resilient Futures at the Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Super Fab Lab in Thimphu in July 2023. Fab Lab Director, Jake Weigel, and Director of K12 Maker Education & Outreach, Dr. Adam Devitt attended. As part of the sustainability focus, Jake presented Augmented Reality for Sustainability: One Metric Ton of Carbon Project.

The opportunity to see the use of the same technology in another culture was inspiring. The online community of fab labs is another important resource to solving local and global challenges!