Articles tagged with: Fab Lab
Fab Lab Pro, Headline »
Con una experiencia de 4 años de investigación intensiva en el uso de herramientas digitales para la producción de Arquitectura de un entorno académico, el IAAC está posicionado dentro de un grupo selecto de escuelas y centros de investigación mundiales que han decidido explorar y aplicar el potencial de los nuevos procesos de producción. Las personas del IAAC involucradas en este proyecto son además profesionales especializados, que dedican gran parte de su tiempo en llevar a la practica estos procesos, sea mediante proyectos propios o colaboraciones con otros equipos profesionales. …
Fab Academy, Headline »
IaaC hosted the launching meeting of the Fab Academy program together with the MIT CBA and different Fab Labs of the world. Fab Academy is a distributed educational program based on the digital and personal fabrication.
The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. Field “fab labs” are providing early access to these capabilities, through prototype tools for personal fabrication.
Instead of traveling to a distant campus, or connecting remote sites for distance learning from a central hub, a global network of local …
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Team:
Victor Viña
Tomas Diez
Guest Jury:
KX Designers: Katia Glossmann, Xavier Tutó
From IKEA republic to personal fabrication
The processes of industrialization during the last two centuries changed the channels of production and consumption in the modern society. Two extremes have been created from distant relations between production and consumption: on one hand we have the large chains of mass production that have been extended over Asia, Latin America and East Europe (cheap labor), and in the other we have a consumer first world located chiefly in North America and Europe. IKEA, McDonalds, Ford, Toyota, …
