Fab Academy is an intensive six month programme that teaches students to design, prototype and invent almost anything using digital fabrication tools and machines.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia will host a new edition of Fab Academy in its Fab Lab Barcelona for those who are interested in developing their skills in the field of digital fabrication. In 2019, we are celebrating the 10th edition of these programmes aimed at approaching the potentials of digital fabrication technologies to revolutionise our communities and societies.

The Fab Academy brings together a multi-disciplinary and hands-on learning experience that can be taken in any number of participating Fab Labs (digital fabrication labs) around the world. At it’s core, Fab Academy Barcelona empowers students to learn by doing, inspires them to make stuff locally, and to become active participants in sustainable cities and communities such as Barcelona’s Poblenou district.

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The course is directed by Neil Gershenfeld from MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course: How to Make (Almost) Anything. Since 2001, they have been at the cutting edge of the global maker movement; enabling innovation and democratising the use of digital fabrication technology through the growing network of Fab Labs around the world.

“Digital fabrication consists of much more than 3-d printing. It is an evolving suite of capabilities to turn data into things and things into data. Many years of research remain to complete this vision, but the revolution is already well under way.” – Neil Gershenfeld.