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The Fab Lab Network is announcing the launching of the Fab Academy educational program, starting on September 2009.
OPEN FOR APPLICATION
The Fab Academy provides instruction and supervises investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. It is a distributed campus, offering advanced technical education to people who can’t access this kind of education due to price, age, qualifications, quality, or location. It is anchored by the field Fab Lab program (http://fab.cba.mit.edu) , a global network of people who cooperate and share knowledge, and provide access to the tools and processes …

Fab Academy será el primer campus educativo distribuido de manera global. Como parte del programa piloto de este proyecto, el Fab Lab Bcn participa en la clase How To Make Almost Anything (Como hacer casi todo?) que enseña el Prof. Neil Gershenfeld en el Massachusetts Institute of Technology, las presentaciones finales incluyeron proyectos de los alumnos del Prof. Gershenfeld en el MIT y Fab Labs a nivel global, el Fab Lab Bcn presento los proyectos de Victor Viña, Daniel Ibañez y Tomas Diez.
Siguiendo con la filosofía de los Fab Labs …

IaaC hosted the launching meeting of the Fab Academy program together with the MIT CBA and different Fab Labs of the world. Fab Academy is a distributed educational program based on the digital and personal fabrication.
The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. Field “fab labs” are providing early access to these capabilities, through prototype tools for personal fabrication.
Instead of traveling to a distant campus, or connecting remote sites for distance learning from a central hub, a global network of local …