The Schedule:

The classes run from Monday to Friday, from Mid-January until June.

Each week, during the Skills Seminars, students will be expected to complete a different topic fully documented. The knowledge learned will contribute towards the development of the final Personal Project.

In addition to the Global Lectures, which take place every Wednesday, there are two days each week where you will receive specific support for your project and have access to Fab Lab Barcelona’s workshop and digital fabrication equipment.

The Program:

Skills Seminars

The Postgraduate “Fab Academy BCN: Applications and Implications of Digital Fabrication” comprises 20 week-long intensive seminars that introduce students to the main aspects of Digital Manufacturing, and its implications in the design and prototyping of projects.

Personal Project Development

The last phase of the program capitalises on all the learning acquired to develop a mature personal project. Participants focus on individual in-depth applied project research, employing critical thinking, hard and soft skills for the development of innovative solutions that explore and implement more viable, sustainable and fair alternative systems of today.

Who can Join?

Engineers, Architects, Designers of all kinds that want to deep-dive into the possibilities of designs becoming prototypes; People from all backgrounds (arts, social sciences, etc) that want to reflect on the impact of making through the act of making; Professionals from different experiences that want to refresh their knowledge or simply take a turn towards making. 

Everyone is welcome! There is no specific academic requirement to enrol in Fab Academy. 

Professional Opportunities

Fab Academy Alumni have used their learned skills to build leading roles in the global Fab Lab network, established their own design studios and become entrepreneurs in the innovation and social design fields.

This skill set will open the possibility to join innovation teams looking for profiles capable of fast prototyping ideas, or thinking creative solutions for products and services. You will have the capacity not only to prototype but to have a critical approach on the design and fabrication processes, and the impulse to continuously and autonomously learn new ways to approach them.

Either if you are looking for the right skills to bring into life your personal project or to joining the job market, Fab Academy is for you!

Admission Requirements

Students aiming to get ECTS certification must also provide the following documentation during the course of the program (it is not necessary to have them at the time of the Application):

1. Legalized copy of your previous academic degree. (Please make sure to arrange the legalization of your diploma as required by your country of origin (more info here).
2. An Official Translation of your legalized diploma (first you must legalize it, THEN, translate all to Spanish) to Spanish language (if not in Spanish already). Your diploma must be translated by an official sworn translator duly registered by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. List of authorized translators here.
3. A copy of your valid passport, or I.D. if you are a citizen of a member state of the EU