RESULTS
The Fab Linkage in Madrid resulted in 6 projects, focusing on digital fabrication techniques and merging together teams from Spain and Italy, representing various international FabLabs.
INTRODUCTION
From the 30th of March to the 1st of April the Team of the Coordinators and the representatives of the 13 projects selected for the first edition of ITmakES – The Fab Linkage came together in Madrid to collaborate and create new connections between the Italian and the Spanish FabLabs. The projects were selected by a committee headed by Noumena founder, Aldo Sollazzo, after an open call for entries.
The Fab Linkage, part of the ItmakES project, is organized by the Italian Embassy in Spain and is coordinated by Noumena. It brings together laboratories from Italian and Spanish such as Alicante, Barcelona, Cagliari, Lecce, Madrid, Malaga, Milan, Rome and Valencia. It is part of the integration promotion strategy of the Foreign Ministry nammed “Vivere all’italiana” (tr. Living the Italian way). According to ambassador Stefano Sannino it will “strenghten ties between the communities of Italian and Spanish makers through creative practice, creating a real and transnational network of digital fabrication”.
WORKSHOP
The original 13 teams merged into 6 six groups, bringing outside collaborators. Starting from the winning entries, they developed their projects furthermore, taking use of the skills of the new partners. They took part at the 3 days of workshop placed in 3 different locations: MediaLab Prado, Makespace and FabLab IED Madrid, while the final presentation of the 6 different projects was held at the Italian Embassy in Madrid.
The 6 projects are the following:
BICILISCA (a halfbike prototype)
VEIL (interactive textile)
B-SENSOR (medical responsive cushion)
BOWTIE (habitable emergency module)
VIAGGIO IN 5 SENSI (an interactive suitcase)
SCOPTACULA (Arduino Kaleidoscope)
INSTITUTIONS
The event is just the first step of the project promoted by the Italian Embassy of Madrid that will lead the projects to being exhibited at the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid and at the Maker Faire in Rome.
List of FabLabs involved:
FabLab Opendot
Fab Lab Valencia
Fab Lab Lecce
Fab Lab Alicante
IAAC – Fab Lab Barcelona
Fab Lab Madrid
IKONO Institito de Investigacion Cultural
Makespace Madrid
Ateneus de Fabricació de Barcelona
Fab Lab Roma Makers
Fab Lab Cagliari
Fab Lab Leon
Tinkerers Lab
COORDINATORS
César García / CREFAB
Gianluca Pugliese / WASP Madrid
Massimo Menichinelli/IAAC | Fab City Research Laboratory
Masimiliano Casu / Curator del progetto Vivace
Aldo Sollazzo / Noumena, IAAC
Alessandro Ranelucci / Maker Faire Rome
Francesca Mereu / Fab Lab Cagliari
Alessandra Fasoli / Roma Makers
Nuria Robles / Fab Lab León
Ignacio Prieto / Fab Lab IED
José Pérez de Lama / Fab Lab Sevilla
Milena Orlandini / Tinkerers Lab (Castelldefels, Barcelona)
NOUMENA TEAM
Francesca Conte / IAAC, Noumena
Eugenio Bettucchi / IAAC, Noumena
PARTICIPANTS
Enrico Bassi / FabLab Opendot
Manuel Martínez Torán / Fab Lab Valencia
Alfredo Guzmán / Fab Lab Valencia
Valentina Giusto / Fab Lab Lecce
Claudia Melissa Barbarito / Fab Lab Lecce
Cristian Rizzuti / IAAC-Fablab Barcelona
Borja Díaz Ruiz / Ruano Makespace Madrid
Elena Papetti / Fab Lab Roma Makers
Francisco Jesús Acién Pérez / Makerspace Madrid
Ricardo Mayor Luque / Ateneus de Fabricació de Barcelona
Francisco de Juanes / Fab Lab Alicante
Leandro Moreno / Fab Lab Alicante
Cristiano Pesca / WASP, Fab Lab Venezia
Alessandra Boi / Fab Lab Cagliari
Gian Paolo Troga / Fab Lab Cagliari
Javier Villaroel / Fab Lab IED Madrid
Raquél Buj / Fab Lab IED Madrid
Marta Verde / Fab Lab Madrid
Jose Manuel Gonzalez Martinez / IKONO Institito de Investigacion Cultural
Leonardo Zaccone / Roma Makers
PROJECT TITLE
ITmakES
YEAR
30th March – 1st April 2017
LOCATION
MediaLab Prado
Makespace
FabLab IED
The Italian Embassy
ORGANIZERS
The Italian Embassy
PARTNERS
BULGARI
Artemide
Reale Seguros
IED MADRID
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