The Maker Culture Summit
New methodologies for prototyping emerging educational scenarios
Client
Nazaret Colegios Innovadores
Service Format
Advisory Program
Duration
1-day program
Delivery Method
Available On-Site and Online
This program was curated by Fab Lab Barcelona and Nazaret Colegios Innovadores to make the ‘Maker Culture Summit’ – a program which trained +60 executives from Nazaret Innovative Schools across ten different departments. The Summit consisted of various activities, from conferences to hands-on learning activities.
This typology of education lies within Fab Lab Barcelona’s framework of exploring new methodologies as a tool for prototyping emerging educational scenarios. The combination of hands-on learning techniques and physical prototyping has proven very effective in maker education and can be applied to future learning scenarios. This includes the education of contemporary technologies – from computational thinking, data literacy and tacit maker knowledge.
The Nazaret Colegios Innovadores work on providing the most up-to-date education, providing space for the students’ creativity and innovative skills to flourish. This, matched with Fab Lab Barcelona’s hands-on educational methodologies, proved a great partnership. The Maker Culture Summit was a 1-day program which introduced the participants to the digital fabrication space of Fab Lab Barcelona and the self-sufficient space of Valldaura Labs, situated in the Collserola National Park surrounding Barcelona.
Project Team
Noel Criado
Noel Criado is an economist and consultant specialised in advising, creating and implementing areas of business development and strategic relations formed at the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands). Since 2005 he has helped educational institutions deploy strategic partnership and knowledge monetisation models through applied innovation processes. Previously he was Head of the Marketing and Communication Department, as well as Head of Corporate and Institutional Relations at Elisava, and developed several positions in multinational companies, such as Product Manager at Esselte and Market Research Analyst at the headquarters of Naturgy Energy Group.
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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