Fabricademy

A journey at the intersection between textiles, digital fabrication and biology

Fabricademy 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 and the upcoming wearable market.

The two phase program will last 6 months, with approximately 3 months of seminars and learning modules and three months focusing on individual in depth applied project research.

Assignements

Weekly projects

State of the art and project management and documentation

Week 1

Digital Bodies

Week 2

Circular Open Source Fashion

Week 3

Bio dyes & Biofabrics

Week 4

E-textiles & Wearables I

Week 5

Computational Couture

Week 6

Textile as Scaffold

Week 7

Open source Hardware- from fibers to fabric

Week 8

E-textiles & Wearables II

Week 9

Implications and applications

Week 10

Soft Robotics

Week 11

Skin electronics

Week 12

Final presentations of weekly assignments and project plan

Week 13

The final presentations will allow me to present the assignments developed during the classes. My final projects ideas will be also presented during this session, and be built during the two months project development phase.

Final project

Exploring the fine line between cosplay, syfy and fahsion

"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence, the concept around which it revolves, has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."(Isaac Asimov)