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Master in Design for Emergent Futures – MDEF

Challenge the Way Things Work Today, Design for Tomorrow

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Postgraduate in Digital Fabrication – Fab Academy BCN

Hands-on learning experience and learn rapid-prototyping.

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CitiObs

Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy, sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, using co-creation for inclusive, local actions.

Enhancing Citizen Observatories for healthy, sustainable, resilient and inclusive cities, using co-creation for inclusive, local actions.

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DTecla

Measuring the effects of introducing maker-centered learning in Primary education students from highly complex schools.

Future Learning
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more4nature

Reversing the trend in environmental degradation through collaboration of Citizen Science initiatives with authorities

Sense Making
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PENCE

Accelerating Europe's ecological transition through community empowerment and climate action

Civic EcologyDistributed DesignProductive Cities
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Taller ENSEMBLE #4

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Conference

FAB25 Czechia – Fab Lab Conference

  • Jul 04 - Jul 11

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Shaping the Future of FabLabs: ReeFab’s Journey in Bordeaux

ReeFab is a 3-year ERASMUS+ funded project focused on encouraging young people’s spirit of initiative, active citizenship and peer-to-peer collaboration through activities, projects, and workshops within the FabLabs, as a […]

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Designing in Uncertainty: MDEF Design Dialogues I as a Playground for the Future

At the first MDEF Design of the year, students transformed the IAAC Main Hall into a living laboratory of emergent futures, speculative experiments, and radical prototyping.

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Acción Climática desde la Creatividad

Talleres de la Red ENSEMBLE sobre técnicas de producción ancestrales e innovativas para soluciones sostenibles ¿Cómo pueden el sector creativo, lxs artesanos y lxs makers desarrollar soluciones para enfrentar la […]

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Driving Design II: Collective approaches Driving enriching design principles

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Citizen Sensing: A Toolkit

A toolkit for participatory sensing

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SPML Machine

An open-source, portable multitool machine

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Fab City: The Mass Distribution of Almost Everything

A manual for making positive engaging urban futures possible

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The Commoning of Knowledge

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The democratization of future-making

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