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

FoodSHIFT Pathways

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

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

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Building a distributed network of designers and innovators to transform local realities

The Master in Design for Distributed Innovation: Addressing global challenges to enable local transformation, by learning from and adapting global knowledge

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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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