Practical info

The Faire Festival is a festival to MAKE together. Around matter and materiality, FabLabs, Making Spaces and Communities, and the general public come together to share skills, discover machines and tools, experiment with techniques, meet partners and other making spaces...

Open Source, collective and evolving like any prototype, this shared and distributed making festival offers the possibility to:

• → Making fabrication accessible to as many people as possible.
• → Share, pool, and experiment with Making (techniques, tools, machines, know-how, materials).
• → Produce manufacturing commons (material library, facilitation guide...).
• → Rethinking the link between production and consumption to help change the world.

Three days to build almost everything together!

A Maker Space is a FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory), a Manufacture, a HackerSpace, a Tinkerers Workshop, a MakerSpace, a shared Sewing Space, a Third Place for fabrication... it is a place that shares tools, machines and know-how, open to all audiences (craftspeople, citizens, employees, students...) to manufacture locally while being globally connected.

It brings together tools and know-how from artisanal, conventional, industrial and digital manufacturing to rapidly go from idea to object and to design, make and repair almost anything. It enables the production of commons through documentation and doing together.

To begin with, Makers (from the verb Make) are literally "makers". They design, build, or repair all kinds of objects. A Maker is someone who creates by themselves and with others through creative hobbies (DIY), crafts, repair, tinkering, industry...

to reclaim production and consume differently. Without limits, Makers build together and contribute to a more circular, more sustainable, more local yet globally connected, more inclusive, more accessible society by participating in climate and social change!

The Faire Festival is an open source and collective event co-led by the RedLab (Réseau des Labs d’Occitanie), the RoseLab and the Laboratoire Organique de Lustar (two Occitan Espaces du Faire) grouped within the Manufacture Distribuée.

It takes place in Toulouse at La Cité, heart of collaborative and sustainable innovation, with the collaboration of Tiers-Lieux/Makers networks such as la Rosée, RFFLabs, the National Association of Tiers-Lieux, and with the support of La Région Occitanie and Toulouse Métropole. More than actors, it is a commons that belongs to everyone.

Literally, everyone. Making, Doing Together, Maker Spaces are everywhere and touch everyone. This 3-day Festival is both a professional trade show for those who have made manufacturing their profession (Thursday, Friday) and a moment of sharing for the general public to discover, experiment and make almost anything (Saturday).

Simply put, it’s a festival for MAKING and DOING TOGETHER!

The Faire Festival belongs to everyone. Everyone can contribute in different ways:

By becoming volunteers: help us think, design, and organise the largest maker festival. Whether before or during the festival, we need you!

By relaying and sharing the Faire Festival on your social networks, newsletter.

By participating to one of our Distributed Labs.

The Faire Festival team is available at the email address contact@fairefestival.fr to answer all your questions!