We are a research and education centre rethinking the way we live, work and play around the world. Founded in 2007! Fab Lab Barcelona was the first Fab Lab funded in the European Union in 2007 and is a benchmark in the powerful network of over 1800 Fab Labs in over 100 countries. We produce world-leading research and innovation based around the digital fabrication laboratory which is located at our heart. We are situated inside the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) in the 22@ District, Poblenou, Barcelona. The building, which was a former ceramics factory, is a laboratory for ideas. We use our digital fabrication facilities to prototype, fabricate and test these ideas in the real world as research, education and innovation. Including 18 European Research projects since 2014. We are a world leader of programs for the future of education. Fab Lab Barcelona was one of the first locations of the global distributed education program, Fab Academy. The global program of 65 locations is now coordinated from Fab Lab Barcelona. In 2018, The Master of Design for Emergent Futures was launched by IAAC and ELISAVA, co-directed and curated by Fab Lab Barcelona. As part of the transition into Industry 4.0 and leading the Fab City initiative, Fab Lab Barcelona focuses on the human-scale and the everyday experience; identifying opportunities in rising trends across seven strategic areas of expertise. IAAC blog Josep Martí. FabLab Faculty Source: Yoshihiro Main image:eventbrite.com texte: Fab Lab Barcelona

CAT is an educational charity dedicated to researching and communicating positive solutions for environmental change. The Centre for Alternative Technology is an eco-centre in Powys, mid-Wales, dedicated to demonstrating and teaching sustainable development. CAT, despite its name, no longer concentrates its efforts exclusively on alternative technology, but provides information on all aspects of sustainable living. It is open to visitors, offers postgraduate degrees as well as shorter residential and one day courses; and publishes information on renewable energy, sustainable architecture, organic farming, gardening, and sustainable living. CAT also runs education programmes for schools and sells environmentally friendly items through its on site shop, restaurant and mail order department. Pedagogy: Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, Architectural review Pedagogy: Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales, Architectural review Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Wales. Photograph: Kevin Richardson/Alamy Photograph: Kevin Richardson/Alamy source Source text

The Center for Land Use Interpretation The lab hosted a collective reflection space between different agents in the cultural and creative european ecosystem, from artists, cultural and innovation facilitators, policy makers to citizens. The main topic we explored together was the creation of new “homes of commons”, as spaces of encounter between the European and the local level, spaces where local territories and local actors are empowered and have a closer contact with the EU and its decision making structures. The objective of the three days we worked together was to ideate these “homes of commons” and their participatory tools, governance, administrative structures, spaces of encounter, physical or digital. Source images Source text: The Center for Land Use Interpretation