Executive Programmes for Institutional Transformation: ISAD

We worked with the Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño (ISAD), at Chihuahua – Mexico, in a series of modular, adaptable, and practice-based training services to empower innovation, resilience and global relevance.

Area

Future Learning

Type of Project

Delivering executive training and capacity-building programmes

The Goal

In a time of accelerated digital transformation, sustainability imperatives and socio-technological change, architecture and design institutions must prepare their faculty and students to navigate a complex and uncertain future. The challenge is not only to teach new tools, but to rethink how knowledge is shared and how impact is created at scale.

Fab Lab Barcelona’s executive programmes are designed to address this challenge through a series of modular, adaptable, and practice-based training services. These programmes empower organisations like the Instituto Superior de Arquitectura y Diseño (ISAD) at Chihuahua, Mexico, to lead with innovation, resilience and global relevance.

Our Contribution

Combining strategic foresight with technical expertise, Fab Lab Barcelona offers a full suite of executive training modules, custom advisory, and deployment models that respond to each institution’s level of maturity, budget and goals.

We offer:

  • Knowledge transfer modules on digital fabrication, sustainability, and education innovation jointly with 
  • Custom Deployment Plans to co-design implementation with each partner
  • Strategic Services aligned with institutional transformation and curriculum development

Sample Module: Digital Fabrication Fundamentals

Online | 30 hours  in 6 on-line sessions + 15h remote mentoring

  • Tools: Rhinoceros 3D, RhinoCAM, Z-Suite/Cura
  • Technologies: Laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC milling
  • Format: Theory + Safety + Practical application

Who It’s For

  • Architecture and design Institutions launching digital fabrication programmes
  • Professional development leaders seeking to equip staff with 21st-century skills
  • International universities aiming to align curricula with global innovation ecosystems

Project Team

Shyam Zonca. Laboratories director at IAAC

Partners

Let’s prototype education for tomorrow

Bring hands-on, impactful training to your institution and shape the educators of the future.

Noel Criado, Strategic Partnerships Lead: [email protected]

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