At Fab Academy, learners come together in local workgroups with peers, mentors, and machines. Everyone is then connected globally in an online campus with content sharing and interactive video classes. The individual labs become local hubs fo local participants, which are also supported and supervised regionally by mentors. Knowledge in this course does not run linear, it is the result of multiple global and local interactions.

How can I be part of the Fab Academy Program?

Fab Academy runs in more than 65 Fab Labs, for more than 250 students per year in the largest campus of the world. Students can join from all over the world, meet once a week online and develop real time assignments on their local Fab Labs.

Learn more about the program https://fabacademy.org/apply/registration.html– Applications for students are now open!

Do you want to dye textiles with living bacteria, print new 3D materials, investigate how to digitize patterns and think about new production processes in the textile and fashion industry? Do you want to be part of the future of the clothing industry and a global network of pioneers around the world?

You can, by joining the Fabricademy starting on September 20, 2022.

Fabricademy: Textile & Technology Academy is a transdisciplinary course that focuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry, in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry all the way to the upcoming wearable market. For a detailed description of the program and its activities, see the Fabricademy Handbook.

The 6-month program runs in selected laboratories across the world and it is structured in two phases:

• 3-month intensive learning: 13 weekly online classes by global experts and weekly local trainings and assignments guided by the local instructors.
• 3-month final project development, mentored by local instructors and advised by global experts.

During the whole program, students have full access and guidance to an equipped laboratory. Selected works from Fabricademy students will be showcased at international exhibitions around the world.

Participants at the Fabricademy learn:

• Research and Design methodology
• Sustainability in Fashion and Textile field
• Open source approach, contribution and dissemination
• Digital Design in 2D and 3D
• Digital Fabrication techniques, processes, machines
• BioFabrication of materials, natural pigments and dyes
• 3D modeling CAD and CAM software
• Programming and electronics for wearables and e-textiles techniques

Apply today in this journey at the intersection of Textiles, Digital fabrication and Biology!

The échofab will act as a node in the Fabricademy program starting this fall.

Email for more information to fabricademy@echofab.quebec or info@textile-academy.org

To visit the program website and register: Fabricademy

Globally connected, local changemakers.

PRESENTATION

The Master in Design for Distributed Innovation (MDDI) is a distributed learning program focused on the intersection of design, technology, ecosystems and communities to improve interspecies wellbeing. MDDI is a research and innovation ecosystem for creative professionals, entrepreneurs, policymakers and agents of change who want to realize real-world responses to the climate crisis, social injustice and biodiversity loss, connecting a global community of changemakers with local innovators in order to address complex challenges.

It combines online and in-person learning to support innovators to gain the social and technical skills needed to develop projects for positive impact with their own communities that aim for measurable transformational change towards planetary consciousness.

The programme is organized by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Fab City Foundation. It is co-delivered by Fab Lab Barcelona at IAAC, local nodes of the distributed campus, and is supported by the global Fab Lab Network.

A Distributed approach

To transition to a new production paradigm, design takes on a new role in the constellation of planetary crises that have been caused by our current industrial model, through which design originally became a revered discipline. Design education has been based on those colonial foundations and globalised ideals of the past. A shift is needed towards how we learn to, from and with design by imagining new processes to reconfigure the relationship between humans and the natural ecosystems around them, and methodologies and approaches rethought to learn and understand how to design from and for diverse contexts.

PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS

As a MDDI candidate, participants might be already working in the public or private sector, academic institutions or, may come from an entrepreneurial background having started their own business related to planetary restoration. The program aims to become a platform to boost and accelerate students’ capabilities to produce change in their own contexts, and to accelerate the transition towards a productive and sustainable model of production and consumption in their communities.

Creative industries and makers

Designers, Makers, Architects, Urbanists and Artists who want to expand their knowledge by incorporating new design methodologies, technological skills and theoretical arguments to deploy in their personal and professional projects sustainably.

Entrepreneurs and social Innovators

Professionals from all areas who wish to transform their ideas into social innovations or start their sustainable entrepreneurship by expanding their technical skills and design methods to become agents of positive change.

Government employees and NGOs

Professionals who are already making changes from inside in public services or non-governmental-organisations and want to accelerate the impact of policy by adopting an innovation culture.

PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

The program offers innovators and changemakers the opportunity to address global challenges in their working and living contexts to enable local transformation, by learning from and adapting global knowledge. MDDI graduates will have the possibility to integrate the knowledge acquired in the program in their working environments, or expand their research agenda after the program. At the same time, graduates with an existing business or initiative linked to the purpose of the program will have the opportunity to reinforce and scale up their reach, and incorporate new knowledge in their current mission.

An MDDI graduate might change or develop a new department within their organization, or find work as Head of Innovation, Director of Strategic Design, Head of Research and Development, CEO of their own startup, or lead transformation projects in public and civil organizations.

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Bachelor or higher degree in Industrial Design, Product Design, Architecture and Urban Design, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Computer Science, Engineering (Mechanical, Chemical, Product, Material), Sociology, Anthropology, Economy, and other related professions.

THE PROGRAM

As a distributed program, MDDI students will experience a mix of online seminars with in-person mentorships and the production of physical prototypes in their local nodes. The program is structured in three modules of one trimester each, plus a final project implementation during one month. Each module focuses on a pair of levels of the Fab City Full Stack, which are developed in three tracks: Ecosystems, Communities and Technology.

Module 1: Why design?

The aim of this module is to establish a foundational layer of understanding the implications of design in its collaboration with communities, human and nonhuman agents, by giving students methodological tools to develop valuable and meaningful scalable systems. With a focus on the development of new learning skills for designing the future and how to enable impact-based incubations at local scales, based on distributed design, collaboration, biomass economy and digital tools.

Module 2. How to design?

This module focuses on developing technical skills to develop sustainable and innovative solutions based on the reconfiguration of technology, social dynamics and resources. Focusing on developing shared urban and territorial strategies, cultivating networks of communities and cities, based on bio-technologies, bio and digital fabrication, bio interactions and blockchain.

Module 3. Where to design?

In this final module, students will be introduced to different but integrated strategies of applying, developing and leading innovative projects in an economic, social, and environmental regenerative manner, achieving a bioregional impact. By developing skills related to impact evaluation, integrative technologies, multiscale layering and horizontal leadership.

APPLICATION TO THE PROGRAM

We are now accepting applications for 2023/2024 academic year.

So apply today!

As part of their science and technology course, Secondary III students at école secondaire Calixa-Lavallée learn about the human joints and the different movements they can do.

In order to integrate these learnings, a project to build a puppet started in the classroom continued during a day at échoFab to create an articulation and print it in 3D.

The objectives of the initiative are:

• Realize a technological design approach
  • Design a prototype of a functional model that illustrates a precise movement of a human body joint: the mechanism must respect a movement associated with the selected joint, flexion, extension, abduction, adduction and rotation
  • Document the process in a notebook (reflection, diagrams, …)
• In collaborative mode, learn about 3D modeling with software Learn about 3D printing

   

This pilot project is part of the Training Program for Digital Manufacturing and Green Entrepreneurship for Entrepreneurs of the échoFab Durable Initiative, a digital manufacturing laboratory (Fab Lab) that brings together the strengths of several sectors (digital manufacturing, education in scientific and technical skills, sustainable development, business support actors) which together articulate an innovative offer to stimulate the emergence of innovative entrepreneurial projects in green and digital economy.

A big thank you to our partners

    

The échoFab Sustainable Dronautique offers training in ecodesign, programming, assembly and drone piloting.

During the winter-spring of 2018, in collaboration with École d’éducation internationale de Laval and Collège Beaubois, the initiative allowed 20 young people from secondary IV and V to benefit from the training, within the framework of a first pilot supported financially by the ministère de l’Économie, de la Science et de l’Innovation, through the NovaScience program, and the TELUS Community Investment Committee in Montreal.

The objectives encountered allowed :

• to offer a stimulating and concrete learning environment, allowing young people to come together in ecodesign a drone, to learn the basics and technical skills necessary for their programming and their piloting
• to create a sense of competence and trust in technology
• to stimulate the interest of the next generation in scientific and technical careers and in the aerospace field

The project also offers transferable elements in different training contexts for the development of skills to integrate ecodesign.

A big thank you to our partners

  

     

Fab Academy is a Digital Fabrication program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything.

The Fab Academy offers a 6 month program on digital fabrication.

The Fab Academy offers Certificates on relevant technical topics, and a Diploma aimed at vocational and technical training. Fab Academy Certificates provide familiarity with technical options and capabilities, hands-on experience, and direction for further study. Each requires, and is evaluated by, developing and documenting projects. They are periodically renewed to reflect best practices. Each Certificate typically requires one week. They are combined in the Diploma, which is roughly comparable to completing MIT’s rapid-prototyping course ‘How To Make (almost) Anything’. Progress is evaluated by skills and projects rather than time or credits.

During this 6 month program, students learn how to envision, prototype and document their projects and ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools, taking a variety of code formats and turning them into physical objects.

→ Fab Academy MTL tuition fee: 5000USD$

APPLY

Need more information? Email :
admissions@fabacademy.org

In Fab Lab échoFab, located in the heart of the Montréal Innovation District, you will have the chance to be immersed and interact in a innovative and dynamic ecosystem.

Fab Academy Montréal provides a unique, intensive and immersive opportunity to increase your knowledge and creative capacity.

Join us!

APPLY HERE

The aim of the course is to create figures capable of managing and understanding the various aspects of digital production, stimulating students with a comprehensive and multisectoral vision through a methodology focused on the transmission of concepts bound to the use and experimentation of digital tools and applications.

The movement of makers, digital artisans, Fab Labs or hackerspace, thanks to exponential growth in recent years, is now creating a new digital economy.

The Academy’s goal is to shape and stimulate future professionals in this new digital revolution.

Diploma / Individual Fab Academy Certificates:

The diploma combines 19 certificates provide familiarity with technical options and capabilities, hands-on experience, and direction for further study. The certificates are:

• Digital fabrication principles and practices – 1 week
• Computer-aided design, manufacturing, and modelling – 1 week
• Computer-controlled cutting – 1 week
• Electronics design and production – 2 weeks
• Computer-controlled machining – 1 week
• Embedded programming – 1 week
• 3D molding and casting – 1 week
• 3D scanning and printing – 1 week
• Sensors, actuators, and displays – 2 weeks
• Interface and application programming – 1 week
• Embedded networking and communications – 1 week
• Machine design – 2 weeks
• Digital fabrication applications and implications – 1 week
• Invention, intellectual property, and business models – 1 week
• Digital fabrication project development – 2 weeks

Check the Fab Academy content archive for more information.

The Academy course is open to any type of professionals, students or curious individuals.

Over the years, the Academy was attended by children, engineers, designers, musicians, computer scientists and students. Thanks to the open course orientation, each participant can create within the Academy an own research path aimed at producing a final project that covers the topics discussed in the course.

The versatility of the program is in fact evidenced by the diversity of topics and proposals presented annually by students. All, as always, can be seen online.

To subscribe to the Fab Academy

APPLY HERE

Each lab that participates in the Fab Academy program is part of a global Fab Lab / Fab Academy network. The local branches of the Fab Academy work with other participating Fab Labs and experts from around the wold via a distributed educational model in which we pool our knowledge to provide a unique educational experience.

We watch and participate in global lectures broadcasted from MIT on Wednesdays at 9:00 am – 12:00 pm EST. The lectures are recorded and available to students throughout the semester. In addition to the lectures, there are two lab days each week where students have access the digital fabrication equipment and personal help with projects.

Fab Academy faculty who are leading professionals in their respective fields provide global video lectures, supervise academic content, and guide research. Hands-on instruction in the labs is provided by instructors who supervise and evaluate Certificates, develop and disseminate instructional material, and assist with projects.

For more information please check: http://www.fabacademy.org/diploma

Le 13 juillet entre 17h et 20h, a eu lieu la 2ieme édition du Repair café co-organisé par Communautique et Tributerre dans le Hall principal du pavillon A de l’ÉTS. Un Repair Café c’est un événement qui rassemble des personnes ayant des objets à réparer avec des bénévoles réparateurs. La plupart des personnes participaient à un Repair Café pour la première fois et ont connu l’événement sur les réseaux sociaux. L’événement Facebook a attiré près de 500 usagers et a été partagé plus de 100 fois.

 

 

«  Le projet constitue une innovation sociale car il permet d’impliquer un milieu d’ingénieurs dans un projet avec la communauté », Guillaume Picard coordonnateur de projet chez Communautique.

 

«  Le projet constitue en soit une mini révolution en générant un mouvement phare dans l’émergence d’une société plus collaborative et une économie durable » Monique Chartrand Directrice générale chez Communautique.

 

Cet événement a été possible grâce à la participation financière du Quartier de l’Innovation et du Fond de Développement Durable de l’Association étudiante de l’ÉTS (FDDAEETS).

 

Arrêtons de toujours tout jeter et optons pour la réparation.

 

En chiffre, la 2ième édition du Repair Café c’était 50 objets réparés, plus de 100 visiteurs, 10 kiosques,13 partenaires et 35 bénévoles.

Historique du Repair Café

Martine Postma, idéatrice de la Fondation Repair Café a mis sur pied le tout premier Repair Café le 18 octobre 2009 à Amsterdam. À la suite du grand succès de la première édition, l’idée s’est propagée en France, en Belgique, en Suisse, au Japon, en Inde et le concept semble s’étendre au reste du monde. À Montréal, le concept est en pleine émergence et en demande de la part des citoyens.

L’échoFab a accueilli plusieurs groupes de jeunes filles au courant de la dernière année, qui sont venues réaliser des activités reliant technologie numérique, électronique et art. Ces groupes de jeunes filles font partie des Scientifines de Montréal, une organisation communautaire visant à promouvoir le monde des sciences et technologie chez les jeunes filles afin de leur permettre de développer diverses compétences de vie et de contrer ainsi le décrochage scolaire et la pauvreté chez les femmes.

Différents groupes de 10 jeunes filles sont venus au Fab Lab pour une période par semaine durant 4 semaines. Elles ont appris les rudiments de l’électronique et de l’électricité, elles ont développé un certain savoir-faire au niveau de la soudure, de l’assemblage d’éléments conducteurs et le travail collaboratif. Ensemble nous avons créé un jeu inspiré du jeu « opération ».

Durant la semaine de relâche scolaire, nous avons accueilli deux groupes de 20 jeunes scientifines, qui ont réalisé le défi de la Trotteuse, un prototype développé pour l’émission Top Science de la chaîne Unis TV.

Elles ont également réalisé le projet « dynamo », qui permet d’aborder qu’est ce que l’énergie ? D’où vient-elle ? Comment en créer ? Lorsque vous allumez une ampoule, l’énergie qui alimente ce bulbe peut venir de différentes sources énergétique avec plus ou moins d’impact pour notre environnement. Quelques fois sous forme de chaleur, de mouvements mécaniques ou de mélanges chimiques, l’énergie que nous utilisons généralement utilise des ressources naturelles précieuses ou ont un important impact sur le territoire. Et quoi dire de l’énergie humaine, vous l’avez oublié ? Comment un humain peut-il générer de électricité ? Cette activité visait à explorer l’utilisation de l’énergie humaine pour remplacer l’utilisation de batteries dans un module portable.

Ces activités mélangent toujours différents types de technologies numériques comme une machine à découpe laser ou une imprimante 3D. Ces groupes de filles ont appris tout en ayant du plaisir, jouant même de la musique avec des objets conducteurs comme des légumes.