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Discover the most innovative projects, designs and prototypes from students and alumni

Creating with CNC machining

Explore projects made during the CNC week of Fab Academy

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April 26

Learning through experimentation

Building capacity to tackle complex problems with MDDI

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April 18

Merging fashion with agriculture

A Catalan fashion designer creating a collection of bags made from corn cobs.

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April 11

Professional Pathways: What happens after Fabricademy?

Post-graduate opportunities for Fabricademy alumni

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March 26

Community Engagement in Practice

MDEF students learning from Fab Lab Barcelona’s projects while engaging with local community driven-initiatives

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March 12

Distributed Innovation: Technologies, Communities and Ecosystems

Shedding light on the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation through two captivating discussions

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February 23

Fair Future(s): Designing with Collective Intelligence

MDEF students delving into digital commons, blockchain, and NFTs

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February 19

Exploring Fab Academy’s treasure trove of knowledge

At the heart of the program lies a profound commitment to documentation and sharing that goes beyond its duration

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February 10

Prototype projects using the power of digital fabrication

In just five months, learn how to use tools and machines to create your dream projects locally

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January 22

Fabricademy – more than fashion

Explore the opportunities the postgraduate program offers to its students

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January 19

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

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January 15

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

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January 08

When craft meets electronics

By combining two distinct fields, this Fab Academy project presents us with a free form electronic sculpture that reacts to the light in the environment

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December 14
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Distributing the Power of Design and Innovation

MDDI – an online program reshaping the frontiers of design education

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December 07

Where are new materials created?

Fabricademy students on a visit to Materfad

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November 27

Rethinking the ways we make things

MDEF class teaching students how to create “almost useful machines”

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November 20

Future Technologies For Sustainable Fashion 

A 2-month educational program fostering collaborations in the emerging field of Fashion Technology

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November 15

Learning through a distributed approach

Discover the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation and its new method of learning

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November 13

Controlling real-life objects with a joystick

Rather than playing a game on a screen, an interactive Fab Academy project allows users to engage with everyday objects

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November 10

Reinventing fashion and textile processes with Fabricademy

An educational program presenting alternatives to the current industrial mass-production processes

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October 25

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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October 01

Turning energy into color

An art installation that changes based on each person’s touch

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September 28
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Fast prototyping: What does it take?

Follow the weekly progress of Fab Academy students Manuela, Aurel and Susana to discover the hands-on learning experience and its challenges.

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September 01
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Flowing Futures

Accessible, DIY solutions to explore, reimagine and change our relationship with water. Celebrate the water that fills our planet with life through prototypes, events, and experiences. 

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June 21
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Slow is the new fast

Resilient lifestyles to change the way we do things and tackle emergent needs.

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May 12
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.

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April 18

How to bioprint bacterial cellulose

A new Fabricademy research project explores a different way of building a decentralized supply chain.

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April 12

Forever and ever? Not when it comes to ‘Fluid Fashion’

Bioplastic garments as an accessible solution to the wear-it-once culture.

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April 04

When wearable art and high fashion meet

The exploratory journey towards a more sustainable and innovative future by a Fabricademy student.

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March 09

A day of turning fungi into surfboards

The quest to replace plastic with biomaterials in the surfing industry: A glimpse into a curious MDEF alumni project

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February 20

A space for collaboration

How diverse backgrounds and experiences enriches the Postgraduate Fab Academy

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October 22

Towards gender parity in Digital Fabrication

Meet some of the inspiring women of Fab Academy.

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September 20

Win a scholarship for Fab Academy 2023

Scholarship for the Postgraduate Diploma in Fab Academy now open.

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June 02
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MDEF 02 is here!

Introducing a second year of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures!

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May 13

Emergent Futures Collective

A design collective prototyping today to imagine and create our tomorrows

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October 14

Designing something ‘almost useful’

How designing for the purpose of “interest” rather than “usefulness” expands our student’s skill sets and potential for future impact.

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March 10

Spotlight on the MDEF graduate creatives of 2020

The projects Organic Matters, Gardenfit and Pangea are delving into emergent futures

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September 04