Tomas Diez

Tomas Diez is a Venezuelan urbanist, designer, and technologist specialising in digital fabrication and its implications for the future of cities and society. He is a founding partner and executive director of the Fab City Foundation and serves on the board of trustees of the IAAC Foundation, where he is also a senior researcher and tutor.
Diez is a close collaborator of the Fab Foundation, supporting the development of the Fab Lab Network worldwide and playing a pivotal role in launching programs such as the Fab Academy and Fab City. He co-founded and co-designed the Smart Citizen project and the global platform for the Fab Lab Network, fablabs.io. Furthermore, he has co-designed and kickstarted higher degree programs, including the Master in Design for Emergent Futures (IAAC-Elisava) and the Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (Fab City-IAAC), both of which he co-directs.
Additionally, he is a founding partner and executive director of the Meaningful Design Group Bali, a novel initiative that intersects advanced technologies and design with alternative worldviews and cultures in Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Diez has been recognized as a Young Innovator of the Year by the Catalan ICT Association and was nominated by Nesta as one of the top 10 social innovators in Europe.