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Our social impact report for friends and
collaborators of Fab Lab Barcelona
Fab Lab Barcelona Social Goodness Review What happened at Fab Lab Barcelona during 2020 when the world as we knew it suddenly changed? How did we cope as many plans evaporated and new priorities set in? The Social Goodness Review takes stock of the past year’s insights and celebrates the achievements with you, our friends and collaborators! 2
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Table of Content
Education
We are Fab Lab Barcelona
Master
The Year 2020 Academies
Workshops
Research & Innovation
Collaborating with Companies
Applied Research
Open Knowledge The Challenges of 2020
Tech for Good
Power to the People We Are on a Mission
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Fab Lab Barcelona, located at the Institute for
Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) brings
together an international team of researchers,
creatives, educators, makers and designers who
are driven by a curiosity to understand the impact
we can have on the world around us and rethinking
the way we live, work and play in cities.
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Research & Innovation
Applied research and innovation is at the heart created, such as the book “Viral Design,
of Fab Lab Barcelona. This year our research The COVID-19 Crisis as a Global Test Bed
was upended with a viral spin when COVID-19 for Distributed Design” – Distributed Design
demanded fast solutions from the maker Platform, tackling the challenges and
community. Our response to the pandemic innovations made by distributed designers
has resulted in many resources being during the outbreak of COVID-19.
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In 2014,
we were awarded
our first EU
European funded grant
active projects
European projects
won so far
Received to develop
meaningful research in
Europe
and have received 7,5 million euros to
Applied Research develop meaningful research in Europe.
As part of the European community, in
2020, Fab Lab Barcelona worked on 15
European funded projects in house within EU Funded Projects
the 7 strategic research areas: Emergent
Futures; Materials & Textiles; Civic We applied our open knowledge and citizen
Ecology; Future Learning; Sense making; innovation across projects including urban
Productive Cities & Distributed Design. heritage, cultural and creative industries, food
We were awarded our first EU grant technology, urban agriculture, environmental
in 2014 and as of 2020 we have been sensing, digital platform development & the
awarded more than 25 EU projects circular economy in 15 active projects.
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Open knowledge & Resources for all
We continued to share our knowledge far and wide
by developing and producing innovative resources
for schools, designers, citizens & policy makers.
Tools that helped spread the Fab Lab Barcelona
values all around the world.
Book Toolkits Monitoring and Impact Assessment Framework
Viral Design – Distributed Design Platform Collaborative Governance Toolkit Pop-Machina
This book collects observations & reflections from REFLOW
the Distributed Design Platform and extended Atlas of Weak Signals Card game by MDEF
community of designers and makers on the Remix El Barrio: Un ecosistema de An innovative card game and workshop created
COVID-19 pandemic. co-creación para repensar los excedentes by MDEF, helping identify ‘weak signals’ as a tool
y residuos de comida/ Co-design with to find possible emergent future scenarios that can
Publications biomaterials with food waste in Poblenou assist in the exercise of finding opportunities,
11 Publications from our 7 SISCODE çthreats, challenges and shared visions for
research areas: innovation, policymaking, intervention, research
1 in Emergent Futures Future Talks Series by the Master in and business opportunities.
1 in Civic Ecology Design for Emergent Futures (MDEF)
2 in Sense making Future Talks is a series of conversations with SPLM Machine
2 in Distributed Design friends of Fab Lab Barcelona, exploring the Open-source, portable machine that has been
1 in Materials & Textiles nature of emerging futures from past to the designed, developed and manufactured by
1 in Future Learning present and beyond. the Fab Lab Barcelona to bring the Fab Lab
4 in Productive Cities 8000 in IG 1634 in YouTube. to the home.
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How to create extraordinary
things through legitimacy?
Indy Johar & Tomas Diez
On de-objectifying design Will there be urban-rural
Enzo Manzini & farmers in the future?
Tomas Diez John Hardy & Tomas Diez
How did Cuba champion Designing for
open source culture? the unknown
Ernesto Oroza & Ron Wakkary &
Tomas Diez Oscar Tomico
How we Future? The future of plastic
Scott Smith & Mattia Bernini &
Oscar Tomico Kate Armstrong
Future Talks
Atlas of Weak Series Collaborative
Signals card MDEF Governance
game Toolkit
624 MDEF REFLOW
Downloads so far Monitoring and Impact
Remix El Barrio Toolkits Assessment Framework
200 SISCODE
Pop-Machina
Printed copies
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Contributors Open
Knowledge
Resources
Book Machines
Viral Design, The COVID-19
Crisis as a Global Test Bed SPLM Machine
for Distributed Design Fab Lab Barcelona
Distributed Design Platform
Publications
FoodSHIFT 2030: A Civic Emergent Exploring Weak Signals to
Citizen-Driven Transition of Ecology Futures Design and Prototype for
the European Food System Emergent Futures.
Armstrong, K., Whaman, E., Diez, T., Tomico, O., &
Schafer, L., Bugge Henriksen, Quintero, M.
C., & Wascher, D.
Future Materials
Learning & Textiles
Jugando con la Luz, Sense Distributed Exploring Local Business
Community Art. Viral Design, Model Development for
The COVID-19 Crisis as a Making Design Regional Circular Textile
Global Test Bed for Productive Transition in France.
Distributed Design Real, M., Lizarralde, I., & Tyl, B.
Domínguez, X., Fuentemilla, S.
Cities
Remix El Barrio: A Co-Creation
Journey to Foster Innovative
A citizen science approach Ecosystems Crafting and Collaborative ontology
for enhancing public Micro-Fabricating with Food design for describing Open
understanding of air Surplus and Waste. Hardware and Open Design
pollution. Sustainable Cities Pistofidou, A., Real, M., & projects
and Society Juarez Calvo, M. Menichinelli, M., Velis, E.,
Mahajan, S., Kumar, P., Rocha, A.,; Schmidt, A.
Camprodon, G., ... & Forino, G.
First exploratory
geographical and social maps
Laboratory evaluation of of the maker movement Distributed Design: A
particle-size selectivity of Menichinelli, M., & Schmidt, Platform Approach Towards
optical low-cost particulate A. G. S. More Inclusive, Plural
matter sensors. Futures for Design.
Kuula, J., Mäkelä, T., Aurela, Armstrong, K.
M., Teinilä, K., Varjonen, S., Boosting co-creation practices in
González, Ó., & Timonen, H makespaces to support the
design of more empowering and
circular food systems at a
neighbourhood scale
Real, M., & Calvo, M.
Socio-spatial segregation
and the spatial structure of
‘ordinary’activities in the
Global South
Unceta, P. M., Hausleitner, B., &
Dąbrowski, M. 9
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Tech for Good
Technology is intertwined in almost
all aspects of our lives. Most of us have
powerful technology in our hands, but
how can we harness it for good? Citizen
science, co-creation and viral design were
some of the tools enabled by our strong
digital presence during 2020.
Digital Natives
1864
Commits on
Github
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Digital Platforms
Developed
Sensing the World
Citizen science is a form of activism and can
help you understand your enviroment. The
Smart Citizen Kits is our legendary environmental
06 monitoring sensor kit that gives people the
power to lead.
Community
Platforms
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deployed
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in schools in Barcelona
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Wor Mobile Air Sea Water
Quality Sensor Quality Sensor
460 Bologna University
campus
Barcelona harbour
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Power to the People
As a core value, Fab Lab Barcelona puts thanks to the community of amazing people we
citizens at the center of a societal transformation work and create with. We curated and hosted an
towards inclusive, collaborative and circular futures. incredible year of activities and events, bringing
Like every year, 2020 was made successful by the together thousands of people from all over the globe.
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Jugando con la Luz art installation
at Off Llum Fest - DO IT
Hosted Events Participative Activities Given Talks
The events space changed dramatically Our strength comes from our community. 18 talks were delivered by the Fab Lab
during 2020 and instead of the Fab Lab Here’s some of the things we Barcelona Team, from a social film festival
Barcelona’s emblematic industrial vibe, accomplished together last year to innovation and tech events, climate
screens filled with little squares of faces conferences and summits around the world.
became the standard view for events. Open Calls
Do we still need to wear pants? Despite Remix el Barrio - SISCODE Curated Exhibitions
the lack of human interaction, many Designing and crafting from food waste Exhibitions also experienced a
online events and courses carried on in the neighbourhood of Poblenou, transformation and some unexpected
and online formats thrived. Long live Barcelona. beauty was born out of captivity. For
the sourdough! example “Jugando con la Luz” started as a
Distributed #StayAtHome Lab physical light installation made by children
Shifting Food: the Food Tech we need now – A distributed way of producing covid related but turned into an online movement,
FoodSHIFT 2030 aids at team members homes during the 1st recreated by children living in quarantine
wave of the pandemic. all over the world. It stands as a testament
Menú 2054: Una cena del futuro – Fab City Hub
to the resilience of children during the most
Distributed Design Awards severe of the COVID-19 related lockdowns.
Essential Oils Lab – MDEF
The Distributed Design Awards 2020
Remix el Barrio en Conversación – SISCODE celebrate the most innovative, supportive Jugando con la Luz Art Installation at Off Llum
and sustainable design across Europe. Festival – DO IT
Fab City Summit – Fab City
Hyper GLobal / Hyper Local – Distributed Design Awards online exhibition –
Live Talks! – Distributed Design Platform Makers Xchange Distributed Design Platform
Food Tech 3.0 event – Fab Lab Barcelona
A call for makers to explore the physical
and digital connections during times of Remix el Barrio at LEKA – SISCODE
Crafts TECH – Distributed Design Platform no travel.
Local Response, Global Need at Vienna Design
Week – Distributed Design Market
FabX Live - Fab Lab Network
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“Being young, female
entrepreneurs in the
medical device design
field is relatively
unheard of. We
have the ability to
approach problems
in a new and creative
way by pushing
the boundaries of
what’s possible. This
project has shown
us that if we put our
minds to it, we can
really make a
change in the
sector so this
is only the
beginning
for us.”
– Hannah Grogan and Máire Kane
from Ireland, The (PPP) Winners of
the Design for Emergency category
Distributed Design Awards
Community
feedback
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Master
Master in Design for Emergent Futures
Challenge the way things work
today, design for emergent futures “If you feel
like a misfit, or
It’s a multidisciplinary course you feel lost, I
which focuses on turning ideas into believe Master in
prototypes, platforms, actions and Design for Emergent
interventions to transform the Futures might be the
current state of society. place for you”
Daphne Gerodimou -
22 students 15 countries
MDEF 2020 alumni.
Academies
Fab Academy Barcelona
Turn your ideas into “Fab Academy is
meaningful products like a little lamp that
brightens little pockets
Fab Academy is an intensive of knowledge (...) It gives
you a little scratch of the
five-month program that teaches
surface and then you can
students to envision, design and dig deep into it. I would
prototype projects using digital do it again”
fabrication tools and machines,
turning your ideas into products. Benjamin Scott - Fab
Academy Barcelona
2020 alumni.
13 students 12 countries
Fabricademy
Change the way to think,
not just what you wear
“It’s all about
Fabricademy is a transdisciplinary sharing knowledge
and collaborate between
course that focuses on the
us to create new things”
development of new technologies
applied in the textile industry, The Lara Campos –
intersection of textiles, digital Fabricademy alumni
fabrication and biology.
9 students 6 countries
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Distributed Design
Academy
“Great
Distributed Design Platform framework
of the whole
The first ever fully online
academy. Very
Distributed Design Academy was
inspiring talks and
based around upskilling designers
sessions, also
and makers working in digital
community”
fabrication and empowering them
with a set of tools to help them Adam Miklosi
meet new and emerging markets.
15 participants 11 countries
Circular Maker Academy
Pop-Machina
The Circular Maker Academy space and establish a
is an immersive circular community around it, working
making and innovation in collaboration with diverse
programme. The objective of local actors on topics such as
the academy is to empower the reuse of plastic, recycling
local ‘maker champions’ to wood, or using food waste at a
establish a circular maker city scale.
30 participants 6 countries
Workshops
Maker Education Creación de Biomateriales 3D Printing with
at FabSchools en ConnectHort Mashed Potato
Distributed Design SISCODE Fab Lab Barcelona
Inspiring designers and Designing and crafting Hands-on printing with mashed
educators to embrace from food waste in the potato to experience how 3D
Maker Education. neighbourhood of Poblenou. printing works.
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“Children will have
the opportunity to
become a 3D printer
themselves, to learn
the basic concepts of
how this revolutionary
technology works ”
– Santiago Fuentemilla, Future Learning Lead
3D printing with Potatos, Cosmo Caixa and
Fab Lab Barcelona
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Collaborating with Companies
Reaching the variety of actors in society
is important to us. We offer collaborations
and workshops to companies, sharing Fab
Lab Barcelona innovations and interventions
with industry, institutions and governments.
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New projects
22 Large Enterprise
SMEs
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Collaborations Institutions
in 2020 with new partners 15
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Professionals
Participants
in activities
99 Students
Germany
South Korea
Belgium
France
Italy
Spain
Partners from Belgium
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Spain
Italy
South Korea
Germany
countries France
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“This
provided
an essential
lesson on
how traditional
agricultural methods
can be translated and used
as a reference for project
development, by combining
ancestral techniques with
advanced and innovative
technologies.”
– Noel Criado, Business Developer at Fab Lab Barcelona,
Slow Food Learning Experience for Università degli Studi
di Scienze Gastronomiche
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In 2020, we were faced with the global real life maker magic took place when our
COVID-19 pandemic. It gave us a new team designed a Simple Personal Mini Lab
perspective to how we work, meet and (aka Six Pack Mobile Lab aka SPML). A
interact with each other. It also highlighted the Multitool (CNC + laser) machine completely
importance of makers and the agility of digital buildable in a Fab Lab, the size of a 6-pack.
fabrication in times of crisis. The ability to Our students continued with their projects
design, prototype & manufacture fast became from home and now you can build your
more important than ever with the urgent need own mini Fab Lab too! Local collaborations
for emergency Personal Protective Equipment. became extremely important in the absence
of travel, while at the same time creating
The Fab Lab Barcelona team delivered global online communities now made more
emergency PPE in collaboration with sense than ever. Creating communities in
the City of Barcelona, hospitals, the Catalan digital spaces such as the Emergent Futures
maker community and IAAC. We were part community, an online space launched by the
of producing over 70.000 visors, more than Master in Emergent Futures, helped us to
40.000 ear guards plus hygienic door handles, stay connected in meaningful ways and even
STL tolerance tests and face masks.What expand our opportunities to bring in unique
happened when students were left without voices to develop a discourse around
access to the lab’s machines and tools? Some emergent futures.
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What’s next? In the year 2021 Fab Lab Barcelona In our pursuit to provide open, public and
will continue the work of rethinking the way we equitable access to the creation and access
live, work and play in cities, using knowledge to knowledge, in 2021 we will be sensing and
development through hands-on experiences as identifying opportunities to further co-create
a driver to implement change. impact and work towars sustainable, just futures.
Our seven strategic areas of expertise are Thank you for being part of our extended Fab Lab
Civic Ecology, Distributed Design, Emergent family and we look forward to the year to come.
Futures, Future Learning, Materials and
Textiles, Productive Cities and Sense Making.
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not an option,
it’s a necessity
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