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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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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.

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TECLA

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

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FoodSHIFT Pathways

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

Civic EcologyProductive Cities
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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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Fabricademy Barcelona

The intersection of textiles, digital fabrication and biology.

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In house programs

Fab Academy Barcelona

Hands-on learning experience and learn rapid-prototyping.

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Hot from the blog

Transforming sugarcane waste into objects that last

From MDEF student to Fab Lab resident: Follow Julia’s explorative journey into waste-based materials

January 29

Five reasons to pursue MDDI

Take a look at some of the reasons why MDDI is a revolutionary program in the field of design and technology

January 25

Creative Projects exploring Fashion Technology

Take a glimpse into the projects developed during the past editions of the educational program Future Technologies for Sustainable Fashion

January 08
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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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Citizen Sensing: A Toolkit

A toolkit for participatory sensing

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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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