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This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Tag Archives: fablab
Watch my FabLab documentary now!
A ‘How I did it’ series of blogposts will follow, but for now I just want to show you what I’ve been passionately creating over the past few weeks. Take your time for this 14 minutes piece of work and enjoy watching it.
A Shift: a documentary on FabLab in The Netherlands. from Elmine Wijnia on [...]
Back to back interviews are exhausting
Wednesday I’ve been filming the FabLab managers in Groningen for my documentary during the FabTafel held there. It is a 6-weekly gathering of the local FabLab-community to talk about all things related to FabLab. It was a perfect opportunity for me to interview the managers in one go.
FabLab Groningen is a new Lab, officially opening [...]
A story on open innovation and FabLab
Joris van Tubergen talks on open innovation and FabLab from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
The robot was created by Edwin Dertien: http://edwindertien.nl/More on the robot in English: http://hackaday.com/2009/02/20/flatpack-walker/Recorded at ProtoSpace: http://protospace.nl
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I created this as part of the longer documentary that I’m working on. One of the decisions I have to make is whether I ask the [...]
Creating a Fab Lab documentary for SHiFT
My goal in the next two months is to create a documentary on the Dutch Fab Lab scene, which will be shown in some form at SHiFT in April. It is a bit of a wild idea, but it’s an excellent way for me to practice my skills on creating a slightly longer film involving [...]
Geeky arts ‘n crafts (26)
This is what I’ve been working on yesterday.
Lasercutting X-mas presents from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
(about the number in the title)
At the ‘office’ in Utrecht (25)
No, I did not decide to move to Utrecht, nor am I renting an office space there, but Utrecht has a place that almost feels like my home office. It’s called Protospace, and Siert (aka my brother) works there as manager of a space where people can make things, Fab Lab-style. And that’s [...]
Visual impression of the opening of Protospace Lounge (12)
Opening Protospace Lounge from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
Protospace (Utrecht) is uitgebreid met de Lounge.
(about the number in the title)

Fablab Enschede is finally here