2. Digital fabrication in education

This week I worked with the Cameo 4 vynil cutter during a workshop with kids and their parents in a public library in Solers, France.

Building a “Grainotheque”

The goal of the workshop was to build a seed library for exchanging and discover plants and vegetables seeds species in a public library. The structure was previously milled by the association “L’Age du Faire” in our cnc workshop in Paris. This is a collaborative workshop with several ambitions, creating a citizen action through an exchange of knowledge, discovering digital fabrication practices and the empowerment of building something useful for a community, by the community, in order to create a bigger engagement.

Drawing & Vectorizing

During this workshops, the kids participating (between 5 and 13 years old) were asked to draw fauna and flora related to the seeds the grainotheque will be exchanging.

Using the software Silhouette Studio we used the vectorizing tool to be able to resize and cut their drawings.

After vectorizing their production, we sorted them to decide which vinyl colour to cut them :

When also wrote and vectorized text to create the signage on the structure.

Weeding & Placing

The participants learnt to weed and place the vinyl.

Here are some pictures displaying the results of this workshop :