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New Project! JustMOBI | Shaping the Future of Inclusive & Sustainable Mobility Education read more
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YouRban

Urban cocreative, sustainable and inclusive ecosystem, for the reprocessing of reinforced polymers on-the-truck

Support for emerging creatives to upcycle composite polymer waste and foster circular urban microfactories.

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AURA

AURA aims to improve the autonomy of people with autism, proposing a new environmental monitoring system to improve sensory accessibility. 

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OPEN-Fashion

Sustainable practices and advanced digital tools to modernise vocational education and training (VET) within the fashion industries of Morocco and Tunisia.

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ENSEMBLE

A network of productive spaces that promotes a manufacturing model combining traditional techniques with new technologies.

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UNDERLIGHT at Llum Barcelona 2026

UNDERLIGHT, a public installation that brought the hidden infrastructures of the city into view, developed within the Master in Design for Emergent Futures.

February 27
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Building bridges between Barcelona and Rio de Janeiro: Creative Industry, Innovation, and Soft Power

Fab Lab Barcelona participates in the Rio Soft Power conference in Rio de Janeiro

December 23
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Unpacking Tech Systems: How to Actually Understand Technology?

MDEF’s critical reflection about how technologies are designed, used, and reimagined.

December 22
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Driving Design II: Collective approaches Driving enriching design principles

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Citizen Sensing: A Toolkit

A toolkit for participatory sensing

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SPML Machine

An open-source, portable multitool machine

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Fab City: The Mass Distribution of Almost Everything

A manual for making positive engaging urban futures possible

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Circular Cities Challenge – Distributed Design
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Radical Imaginations – MDEF
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From CNC to Seamless Interaction: Designing with ‘Alive Wood’ at Fab Academy
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The Commoning of Knowledge

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Transforming Ideas into Reality

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Think globally, fabricate locally

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The democratization of future-making

Scott Smith and Oscar Tomico
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