2026-07-09 –, The Seedbed
In this talk, we will present the LABLAB experience: a participatory prototyping process held in Southeast Brazil that culminated in the LABLAB Camp, bringing together practitioners of agroecology, community technologies, open-source and decentralized approaches to strengthen our practices and networks.
In this talk, we will present the LABLAB process, which culminated in the LABLAB Camp. The conversation will explore the project from its early stages of mobilization, territory mapping, and network building to the participatory methodologies developed throughout the process. We will also present some of the prototypes created during the experience, how they were developed, and the stages they are currently in, as well as a prototype archive gathering mapped initiatives. We will also discuss what took place during the LABLAB Camp, its impacts, and the strategies currently being developed to continue the work. The talk will also highlight one of the outcomes of the process: the transformation of the association into a Science and Technology Institute, in order to better support the practices, research, and methodologies that had already been developed collectively within the association. Looking ahead, we will briefly present the future perspectives of the Institute’s Tech and Agro Program, including possible developments, expansions, and partnerships to strengthen the initiatives that emerged from the process.
Madelynn Martiniere is a facilitator, designer, and strategist specializing in collective innovation—the conditions and infrastructure that enable ecosystems to cultivate community resilience and tackle wicked problems together.
For almost two decades, she has worked across sectors and scales to build innovation ecosystems that center open access, community ownership, and collective power. Her portfolio spans the globe: co-designing an entrepreneurship hub for refugees in Uganda, leading development for a digital platform for sustainable fisheries in Latin America, facilitating data sovereignty initiatives toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and stewarding a global movement of founders and funders building businesses that balance profit and purpose.
A co-founder of Armillaria and former Executive Director of Zebras Unite, she has spent over 15 years bridging local practice with systems-level change—developing the social, organizational, financial, and technical infrastructure that enables communities to produce, govern, and share the technologies shaping our future.
She currently serves on the boards of Communitere International, which builds community resilience infrastructure in crisis and post-crisis contexts, and the Holochain Foundation, advancing peer-to-peer technology for community-owned digital infrastructure.
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Marcela is the current General Coordinator of the PSP Institute. As one of the association’s founders, she has grown alongside the organization, coordinating programs in the fields of community communication and education, while also supporting the development of other projects hosted by the Institute. She is also a researcher whose work focuses on investigating, designing, and facilitating educational experiences that foster meaningful engagement with technology through hands-on and craft-centered approaches.