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We are a research and education centre rethinking the way we live, work and play!

Education Programs

In house programs

Master in Design for Emergent Futures – MDEF

Challenge the Way Things Work Today, Design for Tomorrow

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In house programs

Postgraduate in Digital Fabrication – Fab Academy BCN

Hands-on learning experience and learn rapid-prototyping.

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What’s on

Exhibition

MDEFest 2025

  • Jun 19
  • Les Tres Xemeneies

Conference

FAB25 Czechia – Fab Lab Conference

  • Jul 04 - Jul 11
  • Brno & Prague

Our latest projects

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Distributed DesignFuture Learning

make-a-thek

make-a-thek creates modular, replicable set-ups of makerspaces in public libraries providing access to innovative and circular approaches to fashion, crafts and design

The project Make-a-thek creates modular, replicable set-ups of makerspaces in public libraries, providing access to innovative and circular approaches to fashion and crafts. Based on extensive mapping and co-creation, make-a-thek […]

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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

DTecla

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

Future Learning
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Hot from the blog

Future Technologies for Sustainable Fashion | Three Years of Innovation, Collaboration & Imagination

For 3 years, FTSF program has been quietly shaping the future of how we think about fashion, sustainability, and technology.

May 30

My experience as DAFNE+ Ambassador 

This article is written by Jorge Muñoz Zanón, Dafne+ Ambassador and former MDEF student. Jorge shares reflections on his experience and how artists and designers are navigating creative technologies, the role of decentralised tools, and what meaningful digital engagement looks like today.

May 23

A Celebration of the Maker & Fab Community: FAB25

This year, Fab Lab Barcelona is excited to stand alongside our global peers as a Community Partner! We’re bringing our energy to workshops, paper submissions, and an air quality monitoring hackathon.

May 21
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Stay in the loop

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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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Watch our latest videos

Circular Cities Challenge – Distributed Design

Radical Imaginations – MDEF

From CNC to Seamless Interaction: Designing with ‘Alive Wood’ at Fab Academy
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Listen to our podcast

The Commoning of Knowledge

With Marea Hildebrand & Jessica Guy

Transforming Ideas into Reality

With Kaye Simmington

Think globally, fabricate locally

with Tomas Diez and Primy Jeils

The democratization of future-making

Scott Smith and Oscar Tomico
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