TCBL LAB SERVICE PORTFOLIO
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Visual Summary
TCBL Lab service portfolio at a glance TCBL Labs explore on a daily basis new ways to design, manufacture, and work together. Services are the vehicles through which Labs make outcomes shared and exploitable by the surrounding business ecosystem. LAB ACTIVITY TYPE Hands-on creative experimentation generating new knowledge that has operational significance for T&C practitioners
Utilization of internal textile machines, tools, and know-how to bring design ideas to a fullymanufactured product reality
Assistance aimed to facilitate everyday operations of T&C businesses, especially SMEs and microcompanies Structured actions to equip people with knowledge, know-how, and skills required in particular T&C-related occupations or needed to reinvent a career
Practice-based research
Design & production
CURRENT SERVICE NAME
PREVIOUS SERVICE TCBL LAB(S) ACTING AS 'SERVICE NAME (IF ANY) CHAMPION'
Workplace of the Future
Sartoria Sociale
Digital Archives Curation
Textile Museum of Prato
Open Source Fashion
Fab Textiles
My Yorkshire Wardrobe
TCoE Make Lab + TCoE Design Lab
Felt the Future
Oliva Creative Lab + Sanjotec Design Lab
Laser Cutting as a Service
Arca Textile Lab
Makers Playground
Fablab Venezia
Responsible Production
ETRI Place Lab
Waste Not
Waste Neutralization
REDU Place Lab
TCBL Trends
Fashion Trends Prognosis
Athens Textile & Clothing Design Lab
Business support
Education & training
Fabricademy TCBL Café
Building and reinforcement of meaningful relationships within the community gravitating around the Lab
Michele Osella, Elisa Pautasso, Alberto Buzio – July 2018
Community management
TCBL Hackathon
Fab Textiles + TextileLab Amsterdam Sewing Festival
Gullo Filati Arca Textile Lab (service concept jointly developed with IFM)
TCBL 646133 – Released as Annex 4 to D6.10 (TASK 6.4)
TCBL LAB SERVICE PORTFOLIO
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Visual Summary
TCBL Lab service maturity level It distinguishes high-potential services in an evidence-based and multi-dimensional manner. TARGET BENEFICIARIES
SERVICE NAME
Industry
Labs
Community
I
Digital Archives Curation
I
Industry
L
Labs
Open Source Fashion
I
Industry
L
Labs
Industry
My Yorkshire Wardrobe
I
Industry
Laser Cutting as a Service
I
Industry
Makers Playground
I
Responsible Production
C
Community
C
Community
C
Community
Industry
C
Community
I
Industry
C
Community
Waste Not
I
Industry
L
Labs
C
Community
TCBL Trends
I
Industry
L
Labs
C
Community
L
Labs
C
Community
Fabricademy
L
Labs
TCBL Café
I
TCBL Hackathon
Industry
L
Making
M
Workplace of the Future
Felt the Future
FIT WITH LAB TYPES
Labs
C
Community
C
Community
M M M M M
M
Design
P
Making
D Making Making
D D D
Making Making Making
D D D D
Making
D
Place
Execution
Design
Delivery
Design
Delivery
Design Design Design
P P P
Design
P
• Palermo Place Lab • Lottozero Textile Lab • Lanificio Paoletti • TextileLab Amsterdam
Place
Exploration
Place
Execution
• ETRI Place Lab
Place
Execution
• WeMake
Execution
• WeMake
Design
• Athens Make Lab
Place
Exploration
Place
Delivery
• ETRI Place Lab
Design
Delivery
• TCoE Design Lab
Design
Self-sustainability
P
P M
Place
MARKET READINESS
OTHER TCBL LABS DEVELOPING/PROVIDING THE SERVICE
Place
Making
Delivery
• WeMake • TCoE Make Lab • Hisa Sadezi Druzbe • Lab.Zen2
Exploration
MARKET READINESS
DESCRIPTION
GOAL
1 - Exploration
Playful, open-minded discovery of diversified avenues with the intent to expand know-how and search for inspiration
Nail down the service concept
2 - Execution
Implementation of the chosen service concept, which is turned into reality through iterative validation of market hypotheses and gradual service refinement
Make market debut
3 - Delivery
Service provided to real-world customers in a repeatable and reliable fashion, generating value to them
Improve revenue generation
4 - Self-sustainability
Systematic value extraction from service delivery, making the business line viable in terms of revenue generation
Scale the business model
Michele Osella, Elisa Pautasso, Alberto Buzio – July 2018
TCBL 646133 – Released as Annex 4 to D6.10 (TASK 6.4)
TCBL LAB SERVICE PORTFOLIO
Click here to read the full handbook
Visual Summary
TCBL Service Design Tool It is a visual tool that allows any Lab leader to apply design thinking fundamentals in the process of new service development.
TCBL service design dimensions
To whom the value proposition is addressed (e.g., industry, other TCBL Labs, community) and its profile
Key assets and competences that are mandatory for building and delivering the service, in absence of which feasibility is compromised
Needs and benefits tackled
Alignment with Labs requirements and identification of Labs to team up with
Tomorrow’s revenue generation logic for increasing the scale in a way that is instrumental to impact expansion
Short-term revenue generation logic to kick-start operations
SOURCE: ISMB, adapted from IDEO
Michele Osella, Elisa Pautasso, Alberto Buzio – July 2018
Eminent sources of inspiration, especially the ones that are part of the TCBL universe
SOURCE: ISMB
TCBL 646133 – Released as Annex 4 to D6.10 (TASK 6.4)
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Workplace of the Future
Small ateliers
Mid-large ateliers
Experts of the human factor
Space, time, and equipment for experimentation
Incubation programs for accessing physical spaces and coaching
Consultancy fees to support the establishment of ‘factories of the future’
Provision of production management software in SaaS mode
June 18
Advisory practice supporting T&C organizations in experimenting with future-proof factories
T&C businesses undertaking transitions
Experts who know how to sew + digital transformation advisors
Sartoria Sociale
Real world context (e.g., real orders and/or industry requirements)
Making Labs
Need for human factor at the heart of workplace evolution
Skills shortage and ageing workforce
Desire for healthy workplaces
Desire for workplaces that are more learning-friendly
Promotion of attractive and stimulating working environments
Knowledgeintensity turned into competitive advantage
Old machinery and low-cost manual labor in garment assembly
Need for flexibility in the production processes
Opportunities coming from ‘short runs’ production
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Former studies by Tavistock
Place Labs
Adaptability to different company sizes
Adaptability to different production scheduling options
TCBL Labs as decentralized testbed for the workplace of the future
Fashion Enter Ltd
Need to keep pace with the exponential rate of tech evolution
Possibilities ushered-in by smart organizational models
Katty Fashion
Robotized island in existing production sites
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Digital Archives Curation
Textile Museum of Prato
Digital valorization of textile archives, resulting into iconic collections that fascinate customers Textile archives as unexploited (or underexploited) assets
Archive-owning T&C companies
T&C companies in search of genuine sources of inspiration
Experienced archivists and photographers
Experts in heritage marketing and territorial branding
Creative support from textile designers
‘Standard’ package (support from photographer, archiver, and textile designer)
‘Superior’ package (‘standard’ + heritage marketing advisory)
Creation of a catalogue containing accessible digital assets
June 18
IT database system
Design Labs
Turn-key package for digitization of own archives
Maintenance costs borne by archive owners
Possibility to retrace and communicate company history
Desire to turn cultural heritage into iconic, contemporary collections
Symbolic value as key attribute of product uniqueness
Lineapiù textile company
Textile Museum and Documentation Centre in Terrassa
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Open Source Fashion
Fashion designers
Fashion designers accepting Creative Commons conditions
Garments selling
End consumers
Community management team + technical team
Service fees for lab usage (for designers, on an hourly basis)
June 18
Collection of garments from emerging designers which can be produced on-demand in all Fab Labs
Raw material companies (especially innovative ones)
Manufacturing nodes (e.g., Fab Labs, TCBL Labs)
Physical spaces and equipment for production purposes
Digital technologies underlying masscustomization
Consultancy and training packages (for designers)
Fab Textiles
Design Labs
Desire for custom-fit clothes available on a large scale
S, M, L and XL as persistent and universal standards
Promotion of DIY and maker mindsets in the clothing realm (selfproduction)
Adoption of equitable and accessible sharing (e.g., Creative Commons)
Reduction of goods mobility and associated pollution
Market demand stimulated by conscious consumption movements
Making Labs
Potential of new digital technologies (e.g., additive manufacturing)
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Fab Textiles
Brick-andmortar local shops as additional customer touchpoints
Establishment of an umbrella brand for independent designers
Testimonials by celebrities
Collaboration with a known label in the sustainable fashion area
One digital file resulting into thousands of different products
Market avenues for a new guard of designers
Opportunities for raw material companies in the local area
Fab Lab Barcelona
market. fablabs.io
maquinar.io
Global networking through TCBL
Recourse to small producers to expand capacity
Scale-up through the global Fab Lab network
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
My Yorkshire Wardrobe
TCoE Make Lab + TCoE Design Lab
Online service that provides a customized range of clothing (initially) to men living in a particular region
Men rarely keen on shopping Men living (or working) in a particular region
Strong team including designers, IT managers, and logistics experts
Monthly rent package (depending on the number of rentals per month)
Market share expansion for local clothing producers
Industrial connection with local clothing producers
Algorithms for trend analysis, body measurement, and logistics
June 18
Financial resources (for crossing the startup ‘death valley’)
Design Labs
Making Labs
Frequent postpurchase disappointment
Maintaining clothes largely viewed as a chore
Customization in service delivery
Social media as key channel for understanding and engaging customers
New routes to market for ‘short runs’ producers
Popularity of ‘servitization’ as minimum effort solution in a number of industries
Availability of external shipping services
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
‘Closet sharing’ champions (e.g., Rent the Runway, The Mr. Collection)
‘Predictive offering’ champions (e.g., Stitch Fix, Trumaker)
Place Labs
Replicability of ‘My Wardrobe’ business model to other regions
Adaptability to women
Connection to personal calendars for (authorized) profiling purposes
Inventory control thanks to JIT delivery of collections
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Oliva Creative Lab + Sanjotec Design Lab
Creative experimentation with felt to develop timeless products
Felt the Future
Unlocking the potential of a new breed of products Creative designers
Entrepreneurs
Small workshops
In-house experts with know-how in the felting process
Physical space and production equipment
Industrial ecosystem (e.g., business partners, knowledgeable students)
Connection with industrial tourism players
Consultancy and training fees
Incubation programs (physical spaces + mentoring)
Independents
June 18
Design Labs
‘Circular’ reuse of industrial waste materials
Rediscovery of local craftsmanship
Place Labs
Attraction of other actors of the felt value chain
Students becoming teachers
Marketing campaigns based on success stories
Creation of opportunities across the value chain
New business generation and related impact on employment
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Feltrando
Fepsa
Fibrenamics
Replicability of the whole model through other TCBL Place Labs
Public funding (other R&D grants)
Adaptability to other materials
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Laser Cutting as a Service
Arca Textile Lab
Incredible design possibilities ushered-in by laser made accessible to professionals of every kind
Lack of laser cutting skills in the local area SMEs and startups
Laser cutting machine + complementary software (CAD)
TCBL funding
Independents
Skilled in-house technicians
CreativeWear funding
Very high cost of machinery (CapEx)
Design students and fashion students
Availability of capital
Pay-per-use fees
June 18
Materials for testing purposes
Training program fees
Design Labs
Making Labs
Place Labs
Pay-per-use beyond textile
Saturation of capacity (revenues increase with no additional costs)
No availability of machinery in local universities or fashion academies
Scarce presence of machinery in local companies
No one renting such machine in the surrounding area
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
WeMake Lab
TextileLab Amsterdam
Various Fab Labs
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Fablab Venezia
Learning lab democratizing the access to tools and skills for digital fabrication
Makers Playground
No makers’ education and culture in traditional schools Independents
Young entrepreneurs
Students
Physical space
In-house experts on digital fabrication
Availability of capital for buying new equipment
‘Startup’ package (digital fabrication training + business mentoring)
Bundle with access to coworking spaces
June 18
Design Labs
Tech not (adequately) taught in fashion schools
Need to combine lectures with hands-on training with equipment
Making Labs
Expansion of the initiative through other Fab Labs
Expansion of the initiative through other TCBL Labs
On-the-job training as part of funded apprenticeship programs
Under-served demand for entrepreneurshi p education
Few educational programs focused on fabric manufacturing
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Other Fab Labs in Europe (e.g., 3D modelling workshops)
Arca Textile Lab (Laser Cutting as a Service)
WeMake Lab
TextileLab Amsterdam
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Responsible Production
Local T&C manufacturers producing abundant waste materials
Physical space and equipment
Opportunity to turn waste into new compelling products (circular economy)
Retail or wholesale sales of recycled products
Labor subsidization for Slovenian firms employing people with disabilities
Financial resources
Crowdfunding campaigns
June 18
Social responsibility and environmental sustainability turned into a fully-manufactured product reality
Environmentally conscious consumers
Designers and workers (especially the ones with disabilities)
ETRI Place Lab
Marketing and business development skills
Design Labs
Making Labs
Reduction of disposal costs for local T&C manufacturers
Mitigation of environmental footprint (alleviation of landfill waste)
Place Labs
Shift to luxury, higher-margin products
Cultivation of an affluent and educated local market
Increased input of waste materials
Inclusion of most vulnerable worker groups
Attraction of Corporate Social Responsibility investments
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Mimice toys for children
Other ‘from waste to value’ champions (e.g., bags from waste materials)
REDU (Waste Not)
Development of a labeling system
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
June 18
Matchmaking connecting T&C manufacturers with entities active in waste recycling and material reuse
Waste Not
Local T&C manufacturers
REDU Place Lab
Recyclers
Recyclers and end consumers on the demand supply
Local T&C manufacturers on the supply side
Retail sales of recycled and reused products
Service fees charged to businesses involved
End consumers willing to buy recycled and reused products
Charities and NGOs
Partnerships with other sectors that recycle (insulation, papermaking)
Availability of capital (in case some waste recycling plants are owned)
Revenues from upcycling activities
Alleviation of disposal costs for local T&C manufacturers
Workflow efficiency for local T&C manufacturers
Uptake of virtuous practices in the local T&C ecosystem
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Help to charities and NGOs in getting raw materials for free
Reduction of landfill waste
Services already provided by REDU Place Lab
Place Labs
Bundling of services and corporate training (B2B)
Establishment of a fascinating fashion brand hinged on recycling (B2C)
Replicability of the whole model through other TCBL Place Labs
Implementation of circular economy through reuse and recycling
Mitigation of environmental footprint
New business opportunities on the demand side
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Importance of future insights on consumer behavior for every fashion designer
Fashion designers
Pay-per-use fees (product versioning based on consumption patterns)
Human support
Workshops on seasonal trend guidance
June 18
One-of-a-kind service allowing fashion designers to access pricey ‘what’s next in fashion’ subscriptions
TCBL Trends
Physical space
Athens Textile & Clothing Design Lab
Financial resources for subscriptions
Design Labs
Service provisioning to other TCBL Labs
Expensive subscription to top-tier prognosis services (e.g., WGSN)
Limited willingness to pay on the designers’ side
Possibility to turn Labs into intermediaries for service delivery
‘Fractionalizatio n’ business model already popular in various industries
Fashion trends prognosis intermediaries not yet present
‘Traditional’ providers (e.g., WGSN, Fashion Snoops, Carlin)
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Textile professionals willing to reinvent themselves
Digital fabrication skills + sewing skills
High-caliber trainers and mentors + peers + partner nodes
Course fees from students (~5K€ for a 6month experience)
Private course fees from professionals (10K€-20K€ for a 9-month experience)
June 18
A new, transdisciplinary textile academy based on distributed, shared and open education
Fabricademy
Students in search for a new type of textile education
Fab Textiles + TextileLab Amsterdam
Textile education not up to date Worldwide experts and teachers
Infrastructure (e.g., Fab Labs, bio labs, sewing machines)
Node transfers (students pay local nodes and they in turn pay Fabricademy)
Partner nodes (including Fab Labs and TCBL Labs)
Experience in decentralized educational programs
Commitment to preserve and renovate heritage craftsmanship techniques
Design Labs
Tech not (adequately) taught in fashion schools
Tech as gamechanger for both design and production
Need to train leaders of tomorrow's sustainable fashion
Desire to bring together likeminded people (often scattered)
Possibilities from worldwide knowledge sharing
Uniqueness of the transdisciplinary DNA (digital fabrication + textile + biotech)
Wealth of innovative approaches for hands-on education
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
Making Labs
TCBL Labs as nodes for EUwide expansion
Students becoming teachers
‘Train the trainer’ initiatives
Fab Textiles (research, digital fabrication techniques)
TextileLab Amsterdam (research, material library, bootcamps)
Digital-only Fabricademy program (accessible in absence of a local node)
Machines, software, and materials offered to businesses
Pressing societal issues (e.g., environmental sustainability)
Innovation demand coming from the industry
Fab Lab practices (Fab13 challenge, workshops, wikis)
FashionWeek Amsterdam
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
Physical space
Sales of materials and DIY sewing kits
June 18
Serial events that gather people from every walk of life interested in sewing, knitting, and embroidery
TCBL Café
Connoisseurs of sewing, knitting, and embroidery
Gullo Filati
Desire to reignite the passion for sewing
Chance to learn how to sew through exchange of skills
Possibility to stay together and chat in a nice atmosphere
Flourishing of make-do-andmend practices
Cultivation of a local valuebased community
Business opportunities for local retailers acting as hosts
Quilting groups (UK)
‘The Great British Sewing Bee’ reality show (BBC TV – UK)
Newbies willing to socialize
Tutors + marketing team
Fabrics and threads + DIY kits and sewing tools + sewing patterns
Plenty of knitting and sewing café (all around Europe)
Place Labs
Replicability of the initiative through other TCBL Place Labs
Trademark and international licensing of the format
Public funding to accelerate replication
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
TCBL Labs Team + ISMB Advisors
June 18
Invention marathon that gathers T&C bright minds for a weekend of (fun and) problem solving
TCBL Hackathon
Old guard of manufacturers with outdated equipment (seekers)
Research labs (solvers)
Right mix of creative people
Domain experts
Previous experience in hackathon organization
HaaS (funded by a solution seekers to attract knowledgeable solvers)
Sponsorship fees from various backers (to discover new opportunities)
Businesses trapped in silos (seekers)
Arca Textile Lab (jointly developed with IFM)
Designers (solvers)
Subject-matterexperts (solvers)
Search for actionable and cost-effective manufacturing solutions
Very limited attention devoted to manufacturers’ problems
Freelancers (solvers)
Power of serendipity and unexpected usage of new technologies and materials
Fun coming from hacking, making, learning and networking
#EUBlockathon 2018
Making Labs
Replicability of the initiative through other TCBL Labs
Trademark and international licensing of the format
Public funding to accelerate replication
Scarce collaboration between engineers and designers
Wear It Berlin
Materialization of TCBL values and principles
ICT hackathons
Educational hackathons formats (e.g., La Fabrique, Hubmode)