FabLab Barcelona at IAAC hosts this week “MID Talent”, an initiative held by the Barcelona’s Design Centre (BCD) and framed in the MID Mercat d’Idees Disseny. This training programme will allow young unemployed under 30 to develop new skills in order to increase their possibilities to access the new labour market.

 

IAAC collaborates in this initiative, which is running for the second consecutive year, as a way to boost innovation and technology and offer specific training on creative tools and resources aimed at co-creating solutions and developing new opportunities, daring to do thins differently.

MID Talent offers a full week-long experience for 20 participants living together and having access to a combination of knowledge that integrates innovation, sustainability and cooperation. They will also have at their disposal a coach who will monitor their projects and work developed during the week.

 

 

Some of the MID Talent sessions at IAAC will consist in explaining and contextualizing the FabCity project in Barcelona’s Poblenou district, introducing participants to the ideals of FabLab – connectivity, culture and creativity – and new urban models which transform cities and address materials exploitation from a ‘Products In Trash Out‘ (PITO) system to ‘Data In Data Out‘ (DIDO).

The aim of these sessions, which will feature a presentation by Fab Lab director Tomás Díez, is to bring participants closer to a new concept of sustainable and self-sufficient city, with the potential to import and export anything in the form of data (information, knowledge, design, code).