The Consulate General of Italy in Barcelona is organizing, for the next 27-28-29 April, the Fab Linkage meeting and boot camp. This year with the collaboration of IAAC, Valldauralabs, IED Barcelona and Noumena.

The Fab Linkage is one of the main activities of ITmaKES, the second edition of an initiative aimed at collaboration, creative design and innovation that involves designers, architects, Italian and Spanish sound artists on a path of creation and development of common projects. The event is a workshop of ideas and work in which speakers, moderators and participants work together. The idea is also to generate a strong multidisciplinary and research dialogue between professionals and personalities in the field of architecture, design, manufacturing and experimental music, but also to produce prototypes.

Each day will be marked by inspirational speeches and working sessions at the IAAC, Green Fab Lab in ValldauraLabs, IED Barcelona and Noumena – Design Computing Studio / Wasp Hub. Participation is reserved to the makers selected by the project curators.

OPENING – THURSDAY 26TH APRIL

  • 19:00h – The Fab Linkage presentation at IAAC, Carrer Pujades 102, Barcelona 

Welcome by:
Areti Markopoulou (IAAC Academic Director)
Stefano Sannino, Ambassador of Italy in Spain
City of Barcelona Welcome by Anna Majó, Digital Innovation Director for Barcelona City Council

    • Introductory speech by Gaia Danese, General Consul of Italy in Barcelona, and ITmakES coordinators and IAAC staff Aldo Sollazzo and Valentina Toscano.
    • Short presentations of the working areas by curators (Jonathan Minchin, Juan Carlos Castro, Ricardo Mayor Luque, Milena Orlandini, Aldo Sollazzo).
  • 20:00h – Opening networking sponsored by Birrificio Angelo Poretti
IAAC Welcomes Fab Linkage