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Our latest projects

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Future Learning

FAIG

Weaving the educational network for a meaningful learning that faces the challenges of the future with the head, the heart and the hands.

Weaving the educational network for a meaningful learning that faces the challenges of the future with the head, the heart and the hands.

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Maker ABC

Promoting the maker movement through the exchange of good practices between makerspaces, maker communities & local stakeholders.

Future LearningProductive Cities
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FoodSHIFT Pathways

Empowering educational communities with educational resources to change the current food system.

Civic EcologyProductive Cities
TECLA

TECLA

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

Future Learning
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What’s on

Local Event

Poblenou Open Day por Fab Lab Barcelona / IAAC

  • May 06
  • Ca l’Alier

Workshop

Wood carving

today
  • May 09
  • Ca l’Alier

Discussion Panel, Live Talk

The reuse of wood at the city scale: Opportunities and barriers for local production

  • May 11
  • Ca l’Alier

Workshop

Introduction to ceramics

  • May 16
  • Ca l’Alier

Discussion Panel, Live Talk

The role of Poblenou’s industrial heritage: Present and future uses as urban identity

  • May 18
  • Ca l’Alier

Workshop

Visible Mending

  • May 30
  • Ca l’Alier

Discussion Panel, Live Talk

Productive hubs: Creating opportunities and empowering citizenship

  • Jun 01
  • IAAC

Local Event

Open-air cinema

  • Jun 08
  • Can Ricart

Education Programs

Master

Master in Design for Emergent Futures – MDEF

Challenge the Way Things Work Today, Design for Tomorrow

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Postgraduates

Fabricademy Barcelona

The intersection of textiles, digital fabrication and biology.

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Postgraduates

Fab Academy Barcelona

Hands-on learning experience and learn rapid-prototyping.

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Hot from the blog

Visit the ‘Poblenou Fàbrica / Fabrica’ exhibition

An experimental living archive intertwining past, present and future

April 27
taller de carpintería

El ‘making of’ de una exposición-laboratorio única

Descubre el proceso detrás de ‘Poblenou Fàbrica / Fabrica’

April 19
Larestinga Lava

An exploratory trip to El Hierro island

A week of material-driven experiments and deep reflection sessions to connect to a unique landscape and ecosystem. A parenthesis in the MDEF masters’ program.

April 18
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Stay in the loop

RESOURCE

Fab City: The Mass Distribution of Almost Everything

A manual for making positive engaging urban futures possible

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RESOURCE

Citizen Sensing: A Toolkit

A toolkit for participatory sensing

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RESOURCE

Design Remix Share Repeat

How distributed design is changing makers and designers approach

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RESOURCE

SPML Machine

An open-source, portable multitool machine

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Watch our latest videos

This is Fab Lab Barcelona

The democratization of future-making

Chindōgu 珍道具 – ALMOST USEFUL MACHINES – MDEF Class of 2021
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Listen to our podcast

Think globally, fabricate locally

with Tomas Diez and Primy Jeils

The democratization of future-making

Scott Smith and Oscar Tomico

How do we turn protests into proposals?

Kate Raworth and Tomas Diez

How did Cuba champion open source culture?

Ernesto Oroza & Tomas Diez

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