Postgraduate in Fab Academy BCN: Applications and Implications of Digital Fabrication.
Postgraduate in Fab Academy BCN: Applications and Implications of Digital Fabrication.
Presentation
The Fab Academy is a fast-paced, hands-on learning experience where students learn rapid-prototyping by planning and executing a new project each week, resulting in a personal portfolio of technical accomplishments. It is an intensive five-month program that teaches how to use digital fabrication tools and machines. Students focus on personal fabrication, prototyping ideas into products, making stuff locally to become active participants in sustainable cities and communities globally. This is the chance to see how bits become atoms, how ideas can impact the real world, and how new challenges are tackled. The distributed educational experience of the Fab Lab Network and the Fab Lab Barcelona’s learning methodologies applied in this course ensure that students will not only get the technical skills needed to design and prototype a broad range of possible projects but also a set of soft skills like problem-solving, collaboration, integration and sustainability, much needed in today’s specialized work market, and a key aspect in becoming productive citizens, making local change for global impact.The Global Fab Academy program is directed by Neil Gershenfeld of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)’s Center For Bits and Atoms and is based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course: How to Make (Almost) Anything.
The global level, otherwise known as the Global Campus, connects +250 students enrolled in Fab Academy every year in more than 50 cities worldwide. The students connect weekly for Global Lectures with Professor Neil Gershenfeld. After every Global Lecture, in which Prof. Gershenfeld explains the content and lays out the assignment for the week, there is a round of reviews that opens the possibility for students to interact with the rest of the global community.
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.
Program
PHASE 1- Seminar 1: Principles and Practices
- Seminar 2: Project Management
- Seminar 3: Computer-aided Design
- Seminar 4: Computer-controlled Cutting
- Seminar 5: Electronics Production
- Seminar 6: 3D Scanning and Printing
- Seminar 7: Electronics Design
- Seminar 8: Computer-controlled Machining
- Seminar 9: Embedded Programming
- Seminar 10: Mechanical Design
- Seminar 11: Machine Design
- Seminar 12: Input Devices
- Seminar 13: Molding & Casting
- Seminar 14: Output Devices
- Seminar 15: Networking & Communications
- Seminar 16: Interface and Application Programming
- Seminar 17: Wildcard Week
- Seminar 18: Applications and Implications
- Seminar 19: Invention, Intellectual property, and Income
- Semirar 20: Project Development
Classes take place from January to June, Monday to Friday, from 10h to 19h.
PHASE 2
- Final Project
Classes take place from April to June, Monday to Friday, from 10h to 19h.
Coordinators and teaching staff
Other information
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor Degree. Engineers, Architects, Designers of all kinds that want to deep-dive into the possibilities of prototyping their ideas becoming prototypes. People from all backgrounds (arts, social sciences, scientific, and more) that want to reflect on the impact of making through the act of making. Professionals from different academic and professional experiences that want to refresh their knowledge or simply take a turn towards making.
Application process:
Applications are considered on the basis of an assessment of the quality of prospective students, their motivation, skills and previous academic achievements. Candidates are encouraged to give details of their motivation to study any particular programme. Once applications are reviewed, candidates will be invited to an interview with the IAAC academic coordinator of the program. IAAC applications can be submitted each academic year.
To apply for any of our educational programmes, the applicant must fill out the online application form.
For the online application, the following required documents should all be submitted in English, with the exception of the undergraduate diploma that needs to be translated into Spanish. (All documents must be uploaded onto the designated space on the online application form in PDF format).
For more information on the process, please visit www.iaac.net
ISSUANCE OF ACADEMIC DEGREES
The rate in force at the time of issuance of the title will be applied
PRE-REGISTRATION
01/05/2024 until 21/01/2025
REGISTRATION
01/05/2024
FURTHER INFORMATION
https://iaac.net/educational-programmes/applied-research-programmes/postgrad-fabacademy/