A Fab Lab that Inspires people to Learn and Innovate through Making, so that together we change our world for the better.
VIVA Lab
VIVA Lab is one of the 2,000 digital fabrication laboratories in the Fab Lab's worldwide network that aims to democratize access to personal and collaborative invention, using digital technologies to make (almost) anything.
A space open to the public with manual & digital tools, so that you can develop and materialize your ideas! Here we combine our pedagogical experience and product development, with technological tools of the 21st century and the Maker culture.
In this creative space of excellence we have the opportunity to surprise ourselves, collaborate with unlikely partners, take risks and try new things. This environment of freedom helps to change ways of thinking, to visualize ideas and to put them into practice.
Some of Our Clients
Filipe Araujo
Porto City Hall Vice President
Porto has always had in its genes an ability to transcend itself in difficult situations throughout history. Also now its people have been in the front line!
VivaLab incorporates very well this spirit and, using modern tools, was able to respond with a promptness and solidarity that the city recognizes! - MAKERSvsCOVID19
Christina Rebel
Co-Founder & Chief Innovation Officer at Wikifactory
VIVA Lab have been proving an agility in product development to generate solutions that any formal company would wish to have.
Adopting design- thinking excellence, they have understood local needs and designed solutions fast.
In a span of a couple weeks, they had shared on our platform for hosting digital fabrication projects a range that I have yet to see a maker group be as quick to deploy.
Lisa Lang
Director Innovation & Skills at EURATEX, Forbes Top 50 Women in Tech in Europe
The future will be interdisciplinary, and it’s where VivaLab is. Their merge of machines and highly qualified people, helped us to develop new concepts and to take our ideas to the next levels of innovation. VivaLab is a co-creation hub with a brilliant approach.
Fernando Leite
CEO at LIPOR
VIVA Lab attracted LIPOR's and our Team's attention because of its object, the quality of the Team, its competences, the creativity it generates with the Project proposals it presents. CONGRATULATIONS Team and more PROPOSALS to come.
Projects
Most recent Social Innovation, Design & Sustainability project
FABcONNECTHER
Empowering girls & women in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math)
SHEMAKES
Bridging the gender gap in the textile & clothing industry
Bio MAKER LAB
A space to simplify and encourage the practice of science outside traditional educational environments
Precious Plastic Porto
Machines, Education & Design
to create an alternative global recycling system
fUTURE MAKERS
Summer Camps empowering kids to become the future digital social innovators
kitferrabit
A box with tools and materials for exploring, playing and building at home
wool festival
An annual festival to appreciate the beauty and versatility of this natural and renewable material with the community
sustainable design sprint
Sustainable Design Sprint with Aga Khan Foundation and SDM+Ação in Serra de Minas Market, Sintra, Portugal
circular stand
Stand for the Tomorrow Summit made with recycled plastic from Queima das Fitas' cups
Repair Café
Experts and enthusiasts come together to fix damaged items instead of discarding and replacing
Coração verde award design
Design & manufacture of the Coração Verde Award with upcycled wood and recycled plastic
P.E.T MINI E-SKATE
Development of the world's first recycled electric skateboard
Upcycled stalls for matosinhos
Stalls for the Matosinhos Markets from upcycled wooden walkways of the beaches made with the local community
TEACHER TRAINING
C.M Maia
Transforming educational centers into digital social innovators in maker education
fishing the plastic
Engaging with the fishermen women community in Ovar, giving a new life to ocean plastic waste
living among what's left behind
Creating the first book cover made with plastic waste bringing a light to Manila
DUTCH DESIGN WEEK 19
Showcasing design projects at the Dutch design week
MAKERS VS COVID
Open Design of PPE's for hospitals and local communities
DOme cidade+
Design & manufacturing of a Dome for the Cidade+ event
MALUCOFONE
Manel Cruz
Prototyping & Design of a New Instrument for Manel Cruz by João Sá
Precious plastic C.M MAtosinhos
Building machines & Environmental Education for a social project with the City Hall
Eco agenda
c.m porto
Design & Manufacturing of a recycled agenda for the City Hall of Porto
ecocentro prelada
Design & Manufacturing of a 100% recycled sign for the new eco-center in Porto
sensory table for appacdm
Design & Manufacturing of a sensory table for the APPACDM Association
Awards
Press
OUR PARTNERS & NETWORKS
CONTACTS
Rua Pedro Hispano, 972
4250-364 Porto, Portugal
+(351) 939 592 960
Opening Hours:
Monday – Friday: 10AM – 6PM
Saturday & Sundays: Closed
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