IAAC x MIRA Festival 2026
IAAC and Fab Lab Barcelona are taking part in MIRA Festival 2026, Barcelona’s digital arts festival, with talks at MIRA.exe on 4 November at Sala Apolo and a selection of works by Master in Design for Emergent Futures (MDEF) alumni at MIRA Market, Fira Montjuïc, on 6 and 7 November.
MIRA.exe: We Are Radical – 25 Years Prototyping the Future
MIRA.exe is a new MIRA format for projects where technology, science and art meet, looking beyond both apocalyptic and purely enthusiastic views of technology. In their talk We Are Radical – 25 Years Prototyping the Future, IAAC and Fab Lab Barcelona will look back at a quarter century of experimentation, present three projects and close with a Q&A.
📍 4 November 2026, 11:30h · Sala Apolo, Barcelona · Free entry (register here)
CO-MIDA — Dr. Chiara Farinea, IAAC Head of EU Projects
A modular vertical garden of 3D-printed clay modules for growing food on building façades, powered by a bio-photovoltaic system that uses soil bacteria. More info
Atlas of Weak Signals — Julia Bertolaso, Creative Action Researcher at Fab Lab Barcelona
A toolkit born in MDEF for spotting early signs of change and designing for possible futures. More info
Musical Robotic Façade — Alexandre Dubor, IAAC Robotics Lab Director
More than a thousand robot-carved ceramic bricks that turn Max Richter’s recomposition of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into architecture. More info
MIRA Market: Master in Design for Emergent Futures Alumni at Fira Montjuïc
MIRA Market is the festival’s maker space in Pavilion 2 of Fira Montjuïc. After a curatorial process led by Fab Lab Barcelona, three projects by the Master in Design for Emergent Futures alumni were selected.
📍 6–7 November 2026 · Fira Montjuïc, Pavilion 2 · With festival ticket (tickets)
Lucifer — Carlos Da Silveira
A tissue engineering machine that uses vibrations to shape biological matter in real time, with applications from muscle repair to biohybrid robotics.
The Human Data Market — Hannah Peevey
A stock exchange of confessions where cravings, weaknesses and desires are priced in real time, inviting visitors to negotiate the value of their own data.
Parallel Self — Ramon Prat
An AI trapped inside a 1970s office computer that refuses to be helpful: it questions itself, questions the visitor and distorts their live image on screen. It asks: if we built AI to set us free, why are we both still trapped?
See You at MIRA
Join us at Sala Apolo on 4 November and visit MIRA Market on 6–7 November to experience these projects in person.