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FAB10 // Fab City Symposium & Fab Academy Diploma ceremony

admin — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 18:11:36 +0000

TEI 2013 – International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction – Barcelona

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:49:21 +0000

February 10-13, 2013. Barcelona, Spain.

TEI presents the latest research results, developments and challenges in the fields of human-computer interaction, multimodal interaction design, interactive art, user experience, and the latest technological tools and developments. TEI is presented as a unique forum for the exchange of ideas and presentation of innovative work through talks, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, workshops, posters, art installations and performances.

On Sunday, February 10, 8 workshops will take place at Fab Lab Bcn, taught by specialists from around the world, where participants can implement various technologies and activities related to the theme of the conference, such as experimenting with conductive paints and fabrics to build interactive clothing, experiment with different types of sensors, designed and built small robots, programme and design applications for future smart cities, develop applications for special interactive tables, tablets and smartphones, etc.

Fab Lab Barcelona will present the Studio 13: From Microcontrollers to Cities and will be hosting, on tuesday 12th, the exhibition of the final projects.

More info at www.tei-conf.org

MAI Smart Net Studio presentation

admin — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 10:34:19 +0000

The MAI students presented the Smart Net Studio Project that they have been developing during the december and january. The 6 groups of students proposed each one an intervention based in the Fablab “smart citizen” project. The work was presented in front of the tutors that have been leading the students research, and in front of the jury, composed by different experts related to the fields of interaction, economy and engineering.

Here you have the presentations

MAI_Smart Net Studio Final Presentation //01FEB2013

admin — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:22:11 +0000

MAI_Master in Advanced Interaction2013-2013 – Smart Net Studio final presentation

Presentation Schedule

05.00pm Introduction and Presentation

05.20pm Presentation Session

07.00pm Closing Speach

07.15pm Drink

IaaC at RoboArch Conference 2012

admin — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:52:49 +0000

IAAC Alumni presented a Design Studio project developed within the Master in Advanced Architecture 2011-12 in the context of Rob|Arch Conference 2012.

Alexandre Dubor and Gabriel Bello Diaz featured the “Magnetic Architecture: Generative Design through Sensoric Robots” at the Conference Workshops that took place from December 14th to 16th in Vienna, Graz, Zürich, Rotterdam and Stuttgart.

The presentation was supported by IAAC and KUKA.

ROB|ARCH has been initiated by the Association for Robots in Architecture, of which IaaC is a member since 2012, as a new conference series on the use of robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design, closely linking industry with cutting-edge research institutions.

Project credits:

IAAC, Master in Advanced Architecture

Course: Digital Tectonics, (Fab)Bots 3.0

Faculty: Marta Malé-Alemany

Assistant: Jordi Portell, Miquel Lloveras

Technical Experts: Santiago Martin, Guillem Camprodon, Santiago Martín González

Students: Akhil Kapadia, Alexandre Dubor, Angel Fernando Lara Moreira, Gabriel Bello Diaz.

See the project here

Fab Academy 2013 has started!

admin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:53:41 +0000

The Fab Academy 2013 started this Wednesday, 9am Boston, 3pm Barcelona, 11pm Tokyo. More than 120 students from 24 different Fab Labs in the world are participating in one of the most complete courses in the principles, applications and implications of digital fabrication. The Fab Academy is structured in different units dedicated to different processes of digital fabrication, from the design of a circuit board, the fabrication of large structures, to code applications for your computer. The course is structured through a final project that every student needs to develop and present at the end of the semester.

To check the participating Fab Labs: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/labs/index.html

To check student’s personal websites: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/students/index.html

To access to the video archive of the class: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/videos/index.html

To access to the Fab Academy 2013 content: http://academy.cba.mit.edu/2013/schedule/index.html

Fab Academy Barcelona first Class from Fab Lab Barcelona on Vimeo.

If you have any enquiries about the Fab Academy, please send us an email to: coordination@fabacademy.org

Vote! “Building of the Year 2012″ Archdaily nominations: Endesa Pavilion

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:42:07 +0000

Archdaily, the most visited architecture blog in the world, for the 4th consecutive year, presents the Building of the Year Awards naming Endesa Pavilion amongst the nominates.

Vote for it by clicking on the Nominate button here

Fab Academy Update: 1st Half Complete

iaac — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:35:27 +0000

Every week since the beginning of January, Barcelona Fab Academy students have been working on a different assignment learning about digital fabrication tools and techniques. On this second edition, the Fab Academy has more than 50 participants from all over the world learning and sharing knowledge together through the Fab Lab Network. The students are working on a different assignment each week learning and doing projects on many different scales, from plywood press-fit structures to micro-electronics.

In the second half of the course the students are getting deeper into electronics and embedded programming, developing electronic circuits from zero and doing their first steps on C programming. Below you could see a selection of some of the work done through the first half of the course.

(Video conferencing with Fab Academies from around the world)

Fab Academy 2011 – Second edition

iaac — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:43:30 +0000

50 Participants from 14 different sites. The Fab Academy 2011 has started on January 19th, 3pm Barcelona, 9am Boston, 6am California, 11pm Japan. Students from countries such as South Africa, United States, Iceland, Netherlands, Peru and Spain are participating in the Diploma Program offered by the worldwide network of Fab Labs. The Fab Academy is a distributed education program, the campus is the planet, and classrooms are in the Fab Labs, where also lies the subject content of digital manufacturing, its implications and applications.

The Fab Lab Barcelona has 7 students, divided between its headquarters in the IAAC and DHUB BCN:
- Luciano Betoldi
- Carlos Castro
- Gozde Kucukoglu
- Guillem Camprodon
- Kinga Kubowicz
- Charbell de Soto
- Jesus Villarroel

Students will be encouraged to follow a 6 month intensive program on all digital fabrication techniques and tools, which will be embeded in final projects to be presented on June 2011.

For more information: http://www.fabacademy.org and http://academy.cba.mit.edu