Dear Reader!

I am Aysheshim Tilahun from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I am here to say about the impression that I have just the moment I got to Barcelona and especially to the purpose related to my education in FabLab Academy. Well, Barcelona is a big and interesting City, especially to any one of my kind who is raised in rural area. but here I would like to say something about FabLab…far from my expectations, smart people leading the lab, inventions taken as day to day assignments, and state of the art machines.
My impression starts in Addis, when Tomas, one of the Fab Members from Barcelona had told us about the machines, the Video Conference and ….
But most of all, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I have seen the machines and our remote instructor Neil Gershenfeld from MIT teaching us about the Fab formation, the Fab forums, the ‘how to proceeds’ and finally giving us assignment about thinking of a self reproducing machine.

As a chance I am feeling more glad as I get to know more about the Lab and people, rather families of the Fab Lab.

Well, I hope finalizing the course and starting the job with the Fab family, I can be one effective person that the world will recognize.

Aysheshim Tilahun

Barcelona

Spain

Con una experiencia de 4 años de investigación intensiva en el uso de herramientas digitales para la producción de Arquitectura de un entorno académico, el IAAC está posicionado dentro de un grupo selecto de escuelas y centros de investigación mundiales que han decidido explorar y aplicar el potencial de los nuevos procesos de producción. Las personas del IAAC involucradas en este proyecto son además profesionales especializados, que dedican gran parte de su tiempo en llevar a la practica estos procesos, sea mediante proyectos propios o colaboraciones con otros equipos profesionales. Con este bagaje, y aparte de los servicios propios de fabricación, el FAB LAB quiere ofrecer este conocimiento a los profesionales, mediante cursos especializados intensivos y en formato de consultoría para la resolución de maquetas, prototipos y proyectos concretos, que impliquen cuestiones de geometría compleja y/o la producción elementos no estándar.

Lanzamiento Fab Lab Pro

Jueves 13 de Noviembre 19.00h
El IaaC abre las puertas del Fab Lab Bcn para la producción de maquetas y prototipos profesionales usando técnicas avanzadas de Fabricacón Digital.

Conferencia: Introducción a la Fabricación digital: màquinas y procesos.
Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-directora del Master d’Arquitectura Avançada, Línea de Investigación ‘Digital Tectonics’.

Demos / Cocktail: 3D Print, CNC, Laser Cutter

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 labs can itself become a distributed campus. This is the mission of the Fab Academy. The Fab Academy emerged from the experience of students who had exhausted local educational opportunities and came to fab labs for informal, peer-to-peer, project-based technical education, mentored by a growing group of faculty from around the world. Classes will be taught via networked video to students in fab labs around the world, with collaboratively developed online instructional material. Because there is no international accreditation, the Fab Academy will undertake applicable local and regional accreditation procedures; however the program content will be shared across these.

Fab Lab Bcn is compromised with this evolving and innovative educational project.

Fab Lab Bcn at Fab6

Fab Lab and Informalism workshop 2010

Fab Lab House > Solar Decathlon Europe 2010

FabLabHouse_SolarDecathlonEurope2010 from ON i ON comunicación on Vimeo.

Fab Lab House > Visual trip

FabLabHouse_VisualTrip from ON i ON comunicación on Vimeo.

Smart Geometry 2010

SmartGeometry 2010 from ON i ON comunicación on Vimeo.

Hyperhabitat Reprogramming the World – Venice Biennale 2008

Reprogramming the World: Hyperhabitat – HD version from ON i ON comunicación on Vimeo.

Boot Camp Noruega 2009

Fab Academy desde Hyperhabitat en Venecia

Fab Lab Móvil

Presentation 4th Fab International Forum @ Chicago

Weekend Architectural Workshops (WAW)

4×8 Design Competition > IaaC + MIT CBA

Fab Lab Bcn Launching

Machine Demos > 100w Laser Cutter

Machine Demos > 400w Laser Cutter

Machine Demos > 3D Printer

From IKEA republic to personal fabrication

The processes of industrialization during the last two centuries changed the channels of production and consumption in the modern society. Two extremes have been created from distant relations between production and consumption: on one hand we have the large chains of mass production that have been extended over Asia, Latin America and East Europe (cheap labor), and in the other we have a consumer first world located chiefly in North America and Europe. IKEA, McDonalds, Ford, Toyota, Sony, Nike, Zara, among others, represent the large forces that prompt a model that even seems not to be exhausted (?).

Nevertheless tendencies at the present aims to the personalization of consumption, customers are looking forward to originality and uniqueness, we observe the differentiation of needs between cultures, locations and situations. This phenomena creates new forms of production in which the client becomes the designer and the producer, supported by the advances of digital fabrication technologies and the development of internet through web 2.0 and 3.0. Nike, Adidas, Cannondale are some examples of the inclusion clients in the design of shoes, bicycles or clothes; the Fab Labs prompt the personal fabrication as a model that could radically change the processes and the
relations mentioned before.

This course this oriented to the design, generation and production of an open source and shared platform to promote the online exchange of knowledge, this will permit to prompt the customization and personalization of elements as furniture. The goal is to create an Internet based interface (web 3.0) that will allow to interchange, share, download and upload designs all over the world.