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Master in Design for Emergent Futures – MDEF

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Postgraduate in Digital Fabrication – Fab Academy BCN

Hands-on learning experience and learn rapid-prototyping.

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Our latest projects

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ENSEMBLE

A network of productive spaces that promotes a manufacturing model combining traditional techniques with new technologies.

What is Ensemble? ENSEMBLE is a network of over 30 creative and productive spaces across Barcelona’s metropolitan area, including Fab Labs, makerspaces, craft centers, coworkings, and social associations. It connects […]

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JUSTMOBI

Digitalising Education for an Inclusive Mobility Transition

Emergent FuturesProductive Cities
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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

Distributed DesignFuture Learning
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ReCITYing

ReCITYing proposes a way to bring life back to abandoned or underused places by treating temporary reuse as an active design method rather than a stopgap solution.

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ReeFab Atlas

A field exploration towards ecological transition

December 05

Bringing Stories to Life: Our Co-Creation Journey With Local Students in Barcelona

Co-creation workshops of TechTales with children

December 05

Imagining the Future Makerspace at Biblioteca Camp de l’Arpa

make-a-thek is project aiming at creating maker spaces in public libraries to explore circular fashion, traditional crafts, and local innovation.

November 20
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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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Circular Cities Challenge – Distributed Design

Radical Imaginations – MDEF

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