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Dale Dougherty, Fab Lab Tulsa, and the Budding American Fabrication Movement

Aired on Monday, April 9th.
Aired on Monday, April 9th.

On today's show, a discussion of the nascent but rapidly growing "D.I.Y. fabrication movement" occurring in America today. Our guest is Dale Dougherty, the founder/publisher of Make Magazine (see makezine.com) --- and one of the leading voices in this movement. Our own Hardesty Center for Fab Lab Tulsa, which just opened for business a few months ago (and which is one of only 100 or so fab labs worldwide), is hosting the 2012 US Fab Lab Symposium here in T-Town, from April 10th through the 12th. Tomorrow (Tuesday the 10th), Dougherty will deliver the keynote address for this symposium at a 12pm luncheon at San Miguel School (at 2434 East Admiral Boulevard). As we learn on today's show, a fab lab (which is short for "fabrication laboratory") is a community-centric workspace that offers access to an array of computer-controlled fabrication technologies such as 3D Printers and Laser Cutters, which can be utilized to conceptualize, design, develop, and fabricate almost anything. You'll find much more information at fablabtulsa.com.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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