FABO|中国数制工坊开展全球“Fabricademy"生物织物学术课程

Fabricademy(Fabric+Academy): a new textile academy.

Fabricademy is a cross-disciplinary course thatfocuses on the development of new technologies applied in the textile industry,in its broad range of applications, from the fashion industry to the upcoming wearable market.

The two phase program will last 6 months, withapproximately 3 months of seminars and learning modules and three monthsfocusing on individual project research.

Fablab O Shanghai will be one of the sites where thenew Textile Academy will take place, starting september 26th.

INTRODUCTION

介绍

http://textile-academy.org/about

The textile and clothing industry needs to explore andstart to implement more sustainable and fair alternatives systems today. Theprogram will focus on the un-ethical and environmentally un-friendly realitiesof the current industry, while combining the knowledge of traditional andinnovative craftsmanship to work towards new ways of designing, prototyping andproducing for the textile and fashion industry.

In each class the students will make a project thatdeals with men and women’s body, culture and ways of thinking, using the toolsof digital fabrication and the opportunities given by recycling used materialand hacking existing objects or using sensor for the environment or the body.Each projects will be an experimentation whose results will be used as afeedback to conduct a new round of experimentation

The academy offers a cross-disciplinary education andresearch platform, where production and culture through advanced technologiesare making impact in the way we think and act towards the textile industry andall of its application fields.

DISTRIBUTED EDUCATION

http://textile-academy.org/sites

Fabricademy offers a distributed educational model,first developed within the Fab Academy platform: students learn in localworkgroups, with peers, mentors, and machines, which are then connectedglobally by content sharing and videoconferencing for interactive classes. Theindividual labs are supported and supervised regionally by supernode sites withmore advanced capabilities, expertise, and inventories.

Working locally, while creating connected communitiesglobally: we are not waiting for things to change, we are changing them fromthe ground up.

SCIENTIFICCOORDINATION

Check the websites for the global faculty list.

http://textile-academy.org/faculty

Anastasia Pistofidou

FabTextiles / Fab Lab BCN

Anastasia is a Greek architect specialized in digitalfabrication technologies, design and education. She currently works at theInstitute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) Fab Lab Barcelona asthe director and founder of the FabTextiles research lab. She combines theanalog and the digital towards applied research focused on new materials, artand textiles.

Cecilia Raspanti

TextileLab Amsterdam / Waag Society

Cecilia is a fashion/textile designer and digitalfabrication expert. Currently based in Amsterdam, she is the co-founder of theTextileLab Amsterdam and co-initiator of the educational program TextileAcademyat Waag Society. Here she leads the creative research and technologicaldevelopment of new concepts and alternatives for the textile and clothingindustry.

PROGRAM

http://textile-academy.org/program

The Fabricademy program includes 3 months of lecturesand another 3 months of local project development. During each week startingSeptember 26, every Tuesday at 9.00 PM Shanghai Time, 3.00 PM Central EuropeanTime, students will attend a global review and lecture. On Mondays at the samehour we are also planning talks from experts and practioner for afurther exploration of each week's topic.

CLASS 2017 – LECTURES

26-09-2017

State of the art,project management and documentation

Anastasia Pistofidou, Cecilia Raspanti, FioreBasile

Build a personal site describing you, your finalproject and how you designed your website, plan and sketch a potential semesterproject and add it to your website.

03-10-2017

Digitalize Bodies

Anastasia Pistofidou

Use software to obtain a body-figure and a digitalfabrication process to produce it

10-10-2017

Circular Open SourceFashion

Zoe Romano

The students will have to design and fabricate amodular reconfigurable system or seamless garments. The focus will be oncreating modular elements, structures and connections that allow the user tochange the shape of a garment, resize it or replace certain elements.

17-10-2017

Bio dyes &Biofabrics

Cecilia Raspanti

Explore dyeing with bacteria of different fibers andbacteria

24-10-2017

E-textiles &Wearables I

Mika Satomi

The students will have to produce one soft sensorexperimenting with the materials available at the lab. Trying to reproduce thesame sensor with different materials/techniques (hard/hard hard/softsoft/soft).

31-10-2017

Computational Couture

Aldo Sollazzo

Develop or use an existing parametric model in orderto design and rapid prototype your geometries using a digital fabricationmethod of your choice.

07-11-2017

Textile as Scaffold

Anastasia Pistofidou

In this class we will use textiles for composites, polymerisation,UV solidification, concrete casting, crystallization, biocomposites and otherapplications.

This class focuses on exploring techniques andapplications of technical textiles in the industry.

14-11-2017

Open source Hardware-from fibers to fabric

Mar Canet &Varvara Guljajeva

How to take advantage of digital fabrication and opensource technology to come up with an open source machine for knitting, weavingand invent new techniques.

21-11-2017

E-textiles &Wearables II

Hannah Perner-Wilson

Build your own soft actuators and sensors, integratethem in a working project

28-11-2017

Implications andapplications

Oscar Tomico

05-12-2017

Soft Robotics

软机器人

This class will focus in the study of a specific fieldin robotics, the soft robotics. Unlike rigid robots we are mostly used to, softbodied robots have similarities and performance characteristics similar toliving organisms or the human body.

12-12-2017

Skin electronics

To bedetermined

19-12-2017

Final presentationsof weekly assignments and project plan

Anastasia Pistofidou, Cecilia Raspanti, FioreBasile

Make an overview of projects developed during theclass, present a final project idea, project plan, licensing and communicationstrategy

JOIN FABRICADEMY

If you wish to participate in Fabricademy 2017, pleasefill out the form on the textile academy web page, and you will be contacted byus.

http://textile-academy.org/join