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Our latest projects

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Distributed DesignSense Making

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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TRANSITIONS

A strategic alliance for innovation to nurture the textile and fashion transition to a 4.0 system and a circular economy by developing new learning methods to help designers and professionals to face real challenges.

Future LearningMaterials and Textiles

DTecla

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

Future Learning
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FoodSHIFT Pathways

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

Civic EcologyFuture Learning
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MDEF Design Dialogues I · Presentations & Exhibition

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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 Textiles & Technology – Fabricademy BCN

The intersection of circular fashion, textiles, digital fabrication and biology.

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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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Explore, Learn and Make with DTecla

Each student, classroom, educator, and learning community is unique. Learning experiences should be unique too. DTecla is a pedagogical innovation program designed to support schools in highly complex and vulnerable […]

November 29

SCORE Project Results

SCORE platform: a hub for circular economy open education resources for teachers

November 14

From Barcelona to Japan: A Vision for Circular Design in the Asia-Pacific

Meet Ryota Kamio, an MDEF alumni who is working with circular design practices in the context of the Asia-Pacific region.

October 02
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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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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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SPML Machine

An open-source, portable multitool machine

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Watch our latest videos

How to remote control almost anything with a joystick – Fab Academy Barcelona

Energetic Hybrid Pod – Fab Academy Barcelona

Alternative lifestyles with Slow Lab – MDEF
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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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