The Maker Ambassadors
The potential of digital fabrication for production in urban areas
Client
Fundació Pere Tarrés
Service Format
Immersive Learning Experience
Duration
1-Semester
Delivery Method
Available On-Site and On-line
The Maker Ambassadors project (Ambaixadors i Ambaixadores Maker) is run by Fab Lab Barcelona and the Fundació Pere Tarrés. This project focused on teaching children and teenagers the potential of digital fabrication for production in urban areas and in the makerspaces of Barcelona. The project provided young ambassadors digital fabrication training, learning-by-doing, team working and DIWO (do-it-with-others) experiences. This enables a shift into the maker movement, future skills and further, intelligent production within cities.
Fundació Pere Tarrés is a non-profit organisation dedicated to education which focuses on social action. The Makers Ambassadors project is a program to bring technologies closer to socially vulnerable young people, in which socio-educational centres can participate in – Fundació Pere Tarrés being one of three centres in Barcelona involved in the scheme. The scheme works on overcoming potential digital barriers that socio-economic inequalities can cause, encouraging young generations to develop their own tools and access to makerspaces.
This project took place at Fab Lab Barcelona in which the groups were given a tour, introductions to the machines and the opportunity to develop a project with the machines. The students had following sessions at Fab Lab Barcelona with Future Learning experts to map digital and creative spaces across Barcelona and further introductions into learning-by-doing exercises which encouraged imagination and creativity.
Project Team
Santi Fuentemilla
Santiago Fuentemilla has a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of La Salle (Universitat Ramon Llull), Spain. In 2012 he graduated from the Fab Academy, an intensive 6-month digital manufacturing and rapid prototyping program led by Neil Gershenfeld at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). He is currently doing a PHD in digital manufacturing at the EGA UPC (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya). As a professional architect, Santi has worked in several architecture companies carrying out projects at an international level for more than 10 years. Since 2013 he has been part of the Fab Lab Barcelona core team as coordinator and leader of the Future Learning research area. The area focuses on designing and implementing innovative educational models promoting growth, learning and creativity to generate opportunities to achieve the goals and challenges of uncertain futures. He is the director of the global academic programs Fab Academy and Fabricademy in the Barcelona node. Since 2017 he has been a professor of the Master in Design for Emergent Futures (MDEF). Santi participates in private and EU-funded research projects such as TEC-LA, which measures the impact of the introduction of maker project-based learning for the development of STEAM competences, skills and knowledge in primary school students, DO IT, on entrepreneurship and social innovation for young people, PHALABS 4. 0 which links photonics research and its practical application in the Fab Lab, POP-MACHINA which aims to demonstrate the power and potential of the maker movement and collaborative production for the circular economy of the European Union or SHEMAKES which aims to empower future innovators in the sustainable fashion industry through inspiration, skills and networking.
Xavier Domínguez
Xavier Domínguez is a multimedia engineer, action researcher at Fab Lab Barcelona, lecturer in the Master in Design for Emerging Futures at IAAC-Elisava and global instructor in the Fab Academy programme led by Neil Gershenfeld at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). Since 2017 he has focused his entire professional career on researching methods and tools to accompany people in developing competencies and skills for life through creativity and innovative use of technology under the principles of circularity, sustainability and equity. Xavier is involved in private and EU-funded research projects such as TEC-LA, which measures the impact of introducing maker project-based learning for the development of STEAM competences, skills and knowledge in primary school students, DO IT, on entrepreneurship and social innovation for young people, PHALABS 4.0 which links photonics research and its practical application in the Fab Lab, POP-MACHINA which aims to demonstrate the power and potential of the maker movement and collaborative production for the circular economy of the European Union or SHEMAKES which aims to empower future innovators of the sustainable fashion industry through inspiration, skills and networking.
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